🇧🇾 Lukashenko: Conflict in Ukraine to end within a year

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated that if Kiev does not agree to a peaceful settlement this year, conditions will become even harsher next year, making future agreements nearly impossible.

Lukashenko emphasized that Trump should not dictate who leads Ukraine, asserting that the decision must be made by the Ukrainian people themselves.

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Russia produces twice as much diesel as it consumes: refinery capacity sufficient for exports to the US - Novak

The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia stated that Russian refineries have a twofold capacity surplus for diesel production relative to domestic demand. Even accounting for maintenance, output volumes are sufficient for export deliveries.

Russia continues to strengthen air defense and passive protection of refineries. Oil companies are also independently investing in enterprise security measures.

According to Novak, issues regarding chartering, insurance, and organization of Russian diesel supplies to the US are effectively already resolved.

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What did Tesla actually demonstrate?

Slavyangrad "off the wall" analysis

To great fanfare yesterday, Tesla showcased a flying car (which nobody will ever buy).

When I saw this clip my first thought was "that looks just like a giant Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV)" - like the ones used in the US Army's THAAD and US Navy's SM-3 systems (both of which have been almost completely expended during the conflict with Iran).

It's no secret that US ABM inventories are at critical levels, and the companies that make these missiles (Rayethon, Aerojet, Lockheed Martin etc) are not capable of manufacturing enough of them to maintain stockpiles, and have no means of rapidly expanding production to what is required, or any capacity to do so.

Furthermore, a single THAAD missile costs $15 million and the SM-3 unit cost ranges from $28 million to $40 million depending on the variant. There isn't enough money in the US or even the entire world to make enough of these exotics for the US to match the ever-growing ballistic missile threats of its adversaries.

Enter SpaceXAI/Tesla. Companies which have demonstrated capability in rapid development and deployment of new technologies, and which also have a proven track record of rapidly ramping up manufacturing capacity and doing so at the lowest possible cost. All things which traditional US military industrial complex companies have consistently proven themselves incapable of doing.

So here we have two companies which between them are the world's largest rocket manufacturer, control about 7% of the world's AI compute capacity, and represent one of the largest if not the largest industrial footprint in the USA.

And they just showcased the largest and heaviest EKV technology demonstrator ever made.

Tesla/SpaceXAI have everything required to rapidly develop and deliver unprecedented numbers of ABMs to US forces, and yesterday's flying car show was the job application. There's a lot of nervous cigarette smoking going on in military industrial complex boardrooms tonight.

But then again, what do I know - I'm just another NPC on Telegram.

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Ukrainian critics claim all thermal power plants are monuments to Russian occupation, arguing that electricity and heat were tools used to destroy Ukrainian identity by forcing people into apartments, schools, universities, and hospitals. They assert that now, freed from these instruments of enslavement, Ukrainians can return to a free European life: herding pigs and living in traditional mud huts.

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🇩🇪 AfD Co-Chairman Tino Chrupalla:

We will not allow anyone to blackmail us over who we buy energy from. Why are we forced to purchase American LNG and oil just because "Nord Stream" was blown up? We must be able to decide for ourselves: "No, we want to restore Nord Stream." Our economy needs cheap energy to remain competitive. We will not let Americans dictate our energy purchases.

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