Day: September 24, 2026

The lie upward left Lyman without reinforcements.

For months, the Third Army Corps has pushed along the Lyman axis. Russian units have retreated from at least 75 km². Vivaldi is underway.
The Kremlin wanted to bypass Ukraine’s fortress belt in western Donbas. Instead, Russian milbloggers write that the battle for Donbas may have been extended by up to a year. Their mathnot a guarantee.

David Kirichenko points to a Russian habit: commanders report more success than they have. On the map in Moscow, Lyman looked under control. Reinforcements never came. Ukraine seized the initiative.
Medium‑range fire into the back. Then boots and armor into the gap.   Same lesson as Kursk 2024, he says: when conditions are right, mechanized assault and heavy armor aren’t museum pieces.
It’s not the whole front turning. It’s a bridgehead meant to eat Sloviansk — and instead gets eaten itself.

The lie upward is cheap. It costs divisions.
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🇮🇪 Four days without diesel and an entire country unraveled.

Economist Philip Pilkington breaks down how a brief fuel shortage in Ireland sent truckers onto the motorways and turned 65% of the public against their own government.

“Civil unrest is potential if you start getting fuel shortages.

I mean, we saw it in Ireland.”

If that’s four days, imagine what a real crisis looks like.

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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇺🇸🇨🇦 No one actually knows what happens if the U.S. bans diesel exports, and that uncertainty is the whole problem.

Economist Philip Pilkington breaks down why enforcement is nearly impossible given how deeply integrated U.S., Canadian, and Mexican energy production became after NAFTA.

“If you’re not sending us any diesel from the refineries that we’re co-producing with you, then you’re not getting any of our sour crude.”

Cut off allies, lose your own supply.

@philippilk
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  —  https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2103002742457299432

#CIA warns potential drone attack against  #Spain,  #France or  #Italy – this is trickery, deception, and fake news production, because Ukraine will do it (just as  #NordStream ) –  @ZelenskyyUa met  @CIA few days ago.

Министр иностранных дел РФ Сергей Лавров пошутил в ходе встречи со своим швейцарским коллегой и действующим председателем Организации по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе (ОБСЕ)…