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Russia has taken out over half of Ukraine power generation

www.ft.com /content/4d583259-7565-4cbc-972e-ea77f4a76175

https://archive.ph/l1AwJ

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I would simply not spend a decade trying to ethnically cleanse the Donbas
This means that Ukraine has to import energy from the EU, Ukraine has gone from an energy exporter to energy importer. Further draining the EU's resources. The USA won't care because subjugating Europe is one of the major reasons the USA supports the current Ukrainian government. Overall Russia benefits, the EU is further strained and the USA gets relatively stronger, because they are not the ones who have to foot the bill for Ukrainian energy imports.
- That's an important observation actually. EU is already in a middle of an energy crisis, and having to support Ukraine isn't helping things.
  
  me watching the clock waiting for it to hit, "Ukrainians are orcs, too", o'clock in the EU
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
The war has not necessarily developed in our favor.
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- you can definitely feel bad for the people getting fed into the meat grinder by zelenskyy and the west while recognizing the undoubtedly worse genocide of Palestinians.
  
  I'll consider your point since it's more politely worded amongst all the others- but I can't help but shake the feeling that Ukraine gets way more coverage, way more sympathy, more supporters. No one (outside of this group and the college students who got beaten by stewards of capital) seems to care when ndns die on the rez from preventable ailments or isntrsael steamrolls Palestinians.
- Zionists are using a version of this argument for why you shouldn't care about Palestine but go off i guess
- I would rethink this argument comrade, plenty of innocent people here who are caught up in the churn
  
  I'll reconsider
- It's a bit bad. This will not be evenly distributed. Without reading up on this I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess that the Azov freaks have access to all the electricity they need, while the Romani minority are probably not too high on the priority list.
  
  i was feeling bad when I doled out that crank take and now I feel twice as bad
I remember talk earlier in the war that russia was refraining from hitting critical infrastructure for a variety of potential reasons. Guess that's no longer the case
- The Russian de-electrification campaign against Ukraine was done in response to Ukraine attacking Russian oil infrastructure. It's proven to be very effective because Russia can fire long range stealth subsonic kh-69 cruise missiles from planes within Russia. Ukraine can't detect or shoot down these missiles.
- Indeed, seems like Russia is ramping things up in a significant way.

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