Just as well to lead with the fronts so as not to get lost today. Got a severed head from a marzipan Easter bunny delivered in a shoebox to a pair of size 45 brown mocca ecco sandals from Amazon. A note with the text “stick to the subject” was in the box – message received but I know who you are because you had forgotten a sock with your name engraved on it in the box, Mr. Calvin 🧐
The time for offensive operations probably began around mid-April or thereabouts when the ground started to bear weight again in Ukraine. As mentioned earlier, it’s when the grass has grown enough to bind the soil, but of course, the sun and the absence of heavy rain also play a role.
In northern Luhansk, there are more sandy soils, more passable, and throughout Ukraine, there is probably a difference of about a month in the ground’s bearing capacity.
Today is mid-July, so Ukraine has not intended to carry out offensive operations for three months because they would have started by now.
When no one thought anything would happen in 2024, I stood quite alone, and then they attacked in Kursk – then the consensus was that they had offensive capacity in the summer of 2025 and then it would be lively.
In February 2025, I don’t remember the exact date, there was a lot of movement from Ukraine – high level of ambition.
After that, Trump negotiated Kursk away for them, and except for local counter-offensives to disrupt RU’s offensive operations, they have fought defensively up to now.
Assuming Ukraine has not suffered high losses in its defense war, they should have had time to build up an offensive reserve – equipment, ammunition, and personnel presumably available?
That’s what RU manages to do during high-intensity offensive periods.
UA has also gained technological advantages in several steps – artillery backbone is broken, anti-drone drones are in place, EW weapon works as it should, own UA drones dominate, top aircraft force RU aircraft back, and FAB has decreased significantly.
And UA artillery is alive and well 👍
We constantly hear RU stories about how they can barely move because of the drone weapon, while we saw a movie the other day of a Ukrainian tank swaying back and forth in front of a Russian defense system and putting a lot of explosives in the viewing slits.
We know that Ukraine has prepared a defensive line outside Donetsk oblast and the stretch is about where we guess Putin intends to stop in step one – this line is built because Ukraine does not trust us.
If it continues like this, that line will be reached sometime within a year or so.
What happens after that?
RU stops, both RU and UA continue to lob indirect weapons over each other’s infrastructure until it calms down?
The question then becomes the following –
1. Is what is happening now a deliberate strategy to give up terrain to wear out the Russians and then strike when they start to get tired?
2. Or is it a delaying action back to the main defense line where the strategy is to cause RU such large losses they can handle until it stops there?
3. Or is it something else?
For 1., one would not give up terrain that is dominant and becomes difficult/expensive to retake. If there had been redundancy, they would have retaken those areas as we have seen earlier in the war where Ukraine immediately launched counterattacks before RU had organized.
Ukraine is well on its way to losing the area east of the Oskil River.
In the first area farthest north, RU probably has the ability today to effectively disrupt maintenance.
They have the only access road conveniently within drone range, and the only crossing left is in Kupiansk (yes, blown-up bridges and all that, but must write about something).
A bit further south, the next area is starting to be cut off where RU is +1 mile away from reaching Oskil, and there is a bridge over the waterway, and the waterway is much wider in that area – the likelihood of pontoon bridges is lower.
And finally, the third area that is forming is Lyman – there they have a very small waterway, Siversky Donets, to deal with and can probably move in and out of the area relatively easily, but it is geographically limited.
We just received word that 30,000 more North Koreans are on their way – the rest of the 11th AC, therefore.
Then there were reports of Laotians and a million Indian guest workers whose tasks will quickly be to die in war for Putin and honor.
Russian forces at the northern front are +50,000, or the offensive reserve should be that, and then more forces are added along that border, so in total more.
RU has chosen offensive operations in that area in two areas.
What I have been waiting for quite a while is for the “colonial forces” to take up border protection along that border but inside Russia and thus avoid the whole discussion of their involvement in the war.
For this, Putin obviously needs Trump’s help to persuade Ukraine not to fight inside Russia up there, which Trump has assisted with beyond expectations 👍
A tangible offensive reserve would then be 50,000, for example, to be pushed into northern Luhansk to end that offensive?
If RU takes the area north of Siversky Donets, the distance for the artillery to Slovyansk becomes +13 km.
Northern Luhansk is not a prioritized area for Ukraine and so far not for RU either, which is good, but RU intends to take this terrain to anchor themselves at the northern end of their front behind dominant terrain.
By the way, Kramatorsk is now also within comfortable artillery range, and UA has probably started evacuating the towns already?
The problem with artillery vs. drones is that you can’t combat the artillery shells.
The positive thing is that instead, you can combat the artillery platforms 😀
But having a city within comfortable range for artillery is never good…
The numerical and capability in the area are notoriously difficult to assess – UA has previously had brigades with 300 personnel holding areas for a brigade, for example, and what it looks like for RU in the area is difficult to determine even though we can see the number of brigades on the map.
The problem for UA seems to be that as the areas they hold become smaller, RU can concentrate their indirect fire more effectively, for example, in the northern area.
And having an access road under indirect fire certainly doesn’t make things better.
Johan No.1 was completely wrong in always thinking about you, but those were the reasons given for Kursk becoming unsustainable and they had to leave the whole area two days before Trump’s envoy landed in Moscow, and Putin went out and said that if Ukraine remained in Kursk, the envoy would be sent back, which would have been a prestige loss for Trump. But that was not at all the reason Ukraine left Kursk 👍
That RU intends to reach Kostiantynivka is quite obvious and there are 20km between Chasiv Yar and the western attack vector.
One can assume that Ukraine has prepared for defense in Kostyantinynivka. The downside is that if RU gains a foothold in the town, there is a stretch of signs/buildings all the way up to Kramatorsk from the city.
Since RU has reached Rodynske north of Pokrovsk, the last north-south supply line is now cut off, and the east-west supply line is under indirect fire.
During the summer, supply can of course be maintained over the fields, so it’s not urgent, but the fortress of Pokrovsk is starting to be surrounded both to the west and east of the city, making the fortifications and the expected delaying battle in the cities of Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk redundant, which is unfortunate.
As we have already written, we should expect a UA counteroffensive here reasonably soon, shouldn’t we?
Then down to the southern front where RU has crossed the presumed watercourse and entered Kamyanske for about a month, probably coming from the east, but there is no dominant terrain there at all.
On paper, Ukraine should have a significant capability in the area, and RU should not have a particularly acute advantage.
It looks significantly worse in other areas along the southern front, and RU has not conducted offensive operations in the area for quite some time, so RU forces should be equipped/rested.
It is also not an area with many RU “elite forces,” even though they have pooled their capabilities for Kamyanske.
Presumed defense lines Kamyanske – RU have passed a two-lane road and dominant heights, as well as water/riverbed from the south.
Unfortunately, it is worse than what Deepstatemap shows; UA has withdrawn to Plavni/Stepnohirsk north of Kamyanske.
You constantly wonder why I am sulking about the West’s inactivity, empty promises, and lack of action.
This is why – these are the maps that every week show how UA is losing dominant terrain they should hold, and where on the unit maps it looks like they have good capability in the area.
A bit of a warning sign in Vuhledar in some places with brigades that are critically short on personnel, and yet Zelensky has promised us since the spring of 2024 that the personnel issue is resolved.
In my profession, which for the moment apparently involves building infrastructure for cartels for their drug import to the USA, we constantly work with risk lists and risk. In some projects where consultants wanted to completely fleece the client, we have had risk matrices and spent a lot of time on it in many workshops.
In other projects, I personally review the contractor’s HSE risk assessments and assess the risk.
HSE has far-reaching consequences for us consultants too if we turn a blind eye and something happens – our bosses’ first reaction is to ask us to demonstrate that we have done everything correctly when someone has the bad judgment to go and die on the project, and if we haven’t done our job, dismissal is never far away, depending on whom the client will try to blame to save their own skin.
Since today we have quite good insight into the war, and after +3 years have started to learn something, I am quite sure that our leaders in Europe do not have a completely different view of the situation than we do, and can thus calmly lean back and tinker with their phones.
This is what frustrates me – that our elected officials are willing to turn a blind eye to this risk when the consequences are absolutely enormous.
Because what is the consequence if Ukraine collapses? Well, the war will come to us, and the same elected officials who did not lift a finger to eliminate the risk will then decide who will go to war, and it is rarely they themselves who will stand there in a mobilization depot fingering an over-greased AK4 in the drizzle.
In a risk assessment, it would be bright red with a direct requirement that the contractor must minimize the risk before the work task begins, and we sign off on it.
When there is a risk of interstate war, politicians seem to fall back asleep.
Either Ukraine is preparing for offensive operations or they intend to withdraw to the main line outside the area Putin intends to conquer – those should be the alternatives we are facing, right?
In both cases, they must combine it with full asymmetric warfare to succeed, but unfortunately, we don’t see that either.
Refineries and export infrastructure…
We had weeks where 3-4 refineries were on fire per week, and Russian oil exports are only marginally lower than at the start of the war today (yes, refinery vs. oil…).
Since Ukraine is sending drones over Russia every week, we know they have the capability; in fact, the capability today is much higher than during the periods when they knocked out most refineries.
Similar to Putin and May 9th, they probably won’t.
Or the node in Tatarstan, which if destroyed would disrupt Russian oil completely.
The last refinery on my list is February 2025, I have probably missed something, but it’s almost half a year ago…
We know that Trump also pressured Ukraine regarding the refineries, but Europe was supposed to take over from Trump when it became clear that he was playing on all sides and fully support Ukraine so they could continue to win the war.
The fact that Ukraine is not conducting high-level asymmetric warfare can only mean that Europe is not providing the support that Ukraine feels they would need, right?
I find it hard to see any military-technical reasons why Ukraine stopped dismantling Putin’s best source of income to finance the war?
Now we are still buying Russian crude oil directly from Russia and then refined Russian products from India, so we are also providing cash to continue the war, yes, I am tired of this 😐
The glimmer of hope is the technological advantage and that things have started to move in many places, but the less movement in Ukraine, the less courage the -stans and republics will have to fight for their freedom.
Everyone knows exactly how much Europe and the USA will support if Russia starts opening torture centers in the country, for no one has forgotten the heart-wrenching screams of the dying in Belarus, and how Europe turned away and pretended nothing was happening.
It is important to see the whole picture and what is happening in action, not what is said – Ukraine is retreating at the fronts, and full asymmetric warfare is conspicuously absent.
I am of the opinion that Ukraine has offensive capability, and we know that they always have a plan to reclaim their land, but it’s difficult to determine if “everything is always relative” has come true now…
Ukraine themselves say they are at a 1:3 numerical disadvantage, but they have fought in defense at 1:5-1:9 in losses for RU, and often at 1:3-1:5 in losses for RU during Ukraine’s own offensives.
Now they are also starting to hammer down the Russian technology-whack-a-mole and get up their own stacks, but favorable season for offense is until the beginning of October sometime?
And they have received a hell of a lot of material.
A numerical disadvantage has never been decisive in this war, and they have infinitely better material today than in 2022, and the Russian team rides an electric scooter or uses crutch-shooting – it should be an advantage for Ukraine, reasonably?
I find it difficult to see any sensible reasons why the effective asymmetric warfare would have ceased now when the drone weapon has been scaled up so significantly as it has – it can only be political, reasonably?
So I am starting to ponder what is simmering in the undergrowth here?
The only thing that can be said with certainty is that it is likely not good for Europe.
It would probably be best if Ukraine just waited for Trump for another month before deciding they are crazy, but I think we should be well past that by now and we are in the middle of the offensive period – but preemption and asymmetric warfare are conspicuously absent.
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Russian losses in Ukraine:
1190 KIA 4 Tanks 1 AFVs 43 Artillery systems 1 Anti-Aircraft system 250 UAVs 154 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
Glory to Ukraine!
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4150th ??
Waat 😳😳
With the exception of Kharkiv (Slobozhansky) all changes have reduced the number of attacks, as well as the total. This includes Kherson (Dnipro/Prydniprovsky) which, after being active for about a week, suddenly went silent again.
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 21💥
S Slobozhansky 13💥↗️
Kupyansk 3
Lyman 22💥↘️
Siverskyi 4
Kramatorsk 7
Toretsk 9💥
Pokrovsk 51💥💥💥↘️
Novopavlivka 22💥💥↘️
Huliaypillia 0
Orikhivsk 0
Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 0↘️
Lyman and Pokrovsk a little lively
Thank you for the detailed and interesting frontline illumination and risk analysis of the war at large. I was thinking about Chamberlain, appeasement policy, and learning from history. What would have been the risk if Europe had taken a hard line early on? Did they need time to strengthen, and did we need to carry out a “political” delaying action? That is, to wait with issuing tough ultimatums in order to avoid being forced into war without a prepared army. Europe’s defense is well / has been / comparable to how it looked among the Allies when Hitler started his march. Surely not comparable in all respects, but perhaps the risk analysis done before WW2 has been taken into account in today’s situation. Europe is arming itself. However, beyond indirect support, it remains passive in its response to Putin’s invasion of the easternmost part of Europe. Is this a wise strategy? Did the Allies eventually manage to defeat Hitler because they had accumulated sufficient combat capability only five years after the start of the war?
But here the answer to another question comes into play: do the European leaders in the West share the Ukrainian goal of pushing back Putin and liberating the whole of Ukraine? What is delay and preparation, and what is cowardice and betrayal?
What if the West could already today bomb important industrial targets in Russia in order to gain a decisive advantage in a potential armed conflict. Yes, that’s right, we can do that through Ukraine. Perhaps that’s why the oil industry has taken a break.
We are far from having a clear picture of how successful UAs attacks are.
Which facilities are unique?
Which facilities produce materials that UA has difficulty defending against.
We amateurs often cheer when we can see a huge explosion or an oil tanker on fire.
I have full confidence that Budanov & Co knows what is important to target.
Well, Budanov just survived an internal power struggle with a tough opponent, so now he probably has everything under control again 👍
Yes, surely something like that is behind along with everything else.
One should not underestimate the unwillingness to expose oneself to new things among our politicians.
But the best tool to ensure that the war never reaches us is Ukraine.
One million battle-hardened soldiers.
So the war we are preparing for can be avoided with very little effort.
@MXT During the last month or more, it has happened to me several times that the Publish comment button has been disabled.
I have had to copy the message (which works fine even with images), reload the page, and paste it into a new comment/reply.
I don’t know if it could be related to having a previous comment that is updating because it can still be edited? Perhaps some js event that is failing?
As I mentioned, it happens sometimes, not always, and I don’t know how to potentially reproduce the behavior.
Ouch, haven’t experienced that.
So, it happens when you are about to publish a new comment?
Does the button disappear, or nothing happens when you click on it?
Did it just happen to you now? (if not, please note the time approximately next time).
It could definitely be some script causing trouble.
It’s a plugin used for editing. Unfortunately, I later discovered that it wasn’t very well designed. To keep track of time, it sends an ajax request every second…
I noticed it when I realized that the server couldn’t keep up due to too many requests, and I had to significantly increase the limit.
Sometimes I post a lot of entries quite close to each other. This could mean that if I had posted 10 entries that were still editable, they generated 10 server requests per second. Adding the regular visitors and maybe a few more who posted entries, it escalated.
The limit is reached on the next request.
It could very well be what’s happening so that the next post doesn’t go through.
Besides that, the plugin also “snatches” the regular comment box and via javascript inserts it into the comment being edited. It works quite okay in itself, however, it was a hassle to get it to work with the advanced editor. I had to add more javascript to replace the editing editor with the advanced version (and still impossible to get them exactly the same for some strange reason). It took me a few days to sort it out.
After editing, the advanced editor should then be added only to the regular comment box.
There’s also a risk of something going wrong there.
I’ll start by checking if the site has reached its limit and see if I need to crank it up even more.
I’ll also check the scripts again to see if I can detect anything, but it can be impossible to troubleshoot when it comes to problems that can’t be replicated.
Sounds quite advanced/complex to say the least! The comment I got stuck on was the one above this thread and the one copied in has the timestamp:
Hmm..
I haven’t been able to find any errors yet, and nothing in the logs indicates overload today.
I’ll investigate further later and see if I can find anything.
👍, I often have images and don’t keep track if it happens without an image. The last time it happened was with an image. I will make a note next time it happens.
It happened again on my latest comment. Screenshot:
https://x.com/coxoxoffoxoffic/status/1945936663428903183?s=46
Black magic 😳
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 China is an accomplice in the killing of Ukrainians.
China is producing 2,000 spools of fiber optics per day for Russian #FPV drones. Machines like this one are working non-stop to perpetuate and scale up #Russia’s terrorism.
🎥https://x.com/marine_ukraine/status/1932883773118689299?s=46
Couldn’t they have produced fishing line instead or something else fun.
Fishing lines are a damn jungle for that matter.
Japan has named China as the biggest threat now 👍
off topic
Coca-Cola will soon reveal “information about new product launches.” This is stated by a spokesperson for the beverage giant after Donald Trump urged the company to replace the corn syrup in the American recipe with cane sugar, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Health Minister Robert F Kennedy Jr has previously criticized the health effects of sweeteners and called for fewer artificial ingredients in food.
https://omni.se/a/VzAJlp
Swedish CC contains sugar from sugar beets.
RF Kennedy Jr has mostly been mocked in the media but is somewhat of a health enthusiast and can certainly eliminate some aberrations in the American food industry. However, he tends to go too far on some issues.
There are probably no clear evidence that corn syrup would be more harmful?
Certainly some animal tests with high levels of pure fructose indicate that it can have negative effects, but that is at high doses of pure fructose.
Fructose is present in both corn syrup and cane sugar, but it is more bound in cane sugar so it takes slightly longer to absorb, but at normal levels, it is barely detectable.
It’s a bit like the discussions about sweeteners where the sugar industry has gone “all in” to spread various conspiracy theories to make people believe that it is almost life-threatening.
The problem arises when people overconsume soda, and then it doesn’t matter what kind of sugar it is.
By the way, it’s interesting that Trump has proposed the measure, as it will require the USA to increase imports.
They can produce enough corn syrup themselves (they are the world’s largest producers and also export to other countries) but they already import cane sugar today because they do not have sufficient domestic production.
Now there are special customs regulations for sugar that are made to keep them at low levels, so at least they avoid that.
Coca-Cola should become more expensive regardless, or they take the cost themselves and reduce the profit.
Pepsi will probably be happy! 😄
One actually knows quite well how the body handles fructose.
In practice, it’s similar to alcohol.
The liver is supposed to break it down into glucose, among other things.
With excessive consumption, the liver can’t keep up and one develops a condition called fatty liver.
Corn syrup, or as it’s actually called High Fructose Corn Syrup, is essentially glucose that is converted into fructose through enzymes.
The least one can say about HFCS is that it is an ultra-processed food.
Below is a brief summary of how the body breaks down fruit sugar and converts it into energy.
Small amounts are of course not a problem.
But like alcohol consumption, high and frequent intake of fruit sugar is harmful.
https://youtu.be/iJZZ93uBUdw?si=LXveRf_7yE80GrUm
Here is a slightly more in-depth description of the differences in the breakdown of fructose and glucose.
As mentioned, fructose must pass through the liver, which glucose does not need to do.
Then there are a lot of other things to consider.
So that hunger is triggered solely by falling blood sugar levels regardless of how high the blood sugar was when it starts to drop.
So one can have a very high blood sugar level but still have a craving for sugar.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK576428/
Now I refer to the difference between corn syrup and cane sugar, and both contain fructose so the risk remains regardless of whether you switch it out.
Ultra-processed is something that is often thrown around as if it would per se be something negative.
It just means that it has undergone steps that cannot be carried out at home in the kitchen with regular kitchen ingredients.
When it comes to corn, the starch is extracted, then enzymes are used to break it down to, for example, 50% fructose.
So, no chemicals or similar are added.
Your little sugar denier 😅
You should maybe trust the scientists, even though they have the same viewpoint as Kennedy and Trump.
That’s exactly what I’m doing, and what I claim is that fructose is present in both corn syrup and cane sugar, so for end consumers, it makes no difference; it is excessive sugar consumption itself that is dangerous.
Corn sugar contains ~ 5% more fructose than cane sugar and enters the bloodstream slightly faster.
Above, it was compared to alcohol consumption.
If one were to compare, one could say that the difference is roughly like reducing the alcohol content in spirits from 40% to 35%.
It has no significance for those who drink normally, and those who drink too much will do so anyway.
If something is to be done about the “problem,” people must be encouraged to drink less soda.
(Given how paranoid we are in Europe, it would be banned otherwise.)
The reason we do not use it to a greater extent is that regular sugar is cheaper here than corn syrup.
Fructose is freely available in HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, and is absorbed faster than regular sugar. In addition, it is twice as sweet as glucose and cannot be used by the brain, instead it goes to the liver and is converted into, among other things, fat. Byproducts are also formed that lead to inflammation, says Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson, professor of appetite control and energy balance at Lund University.
I could fill the entire blog with statements from researchers and professors, but it probably won’t help, you can live in your belief and have a solid glass of corn syrup.
Cheers!
Despite that, studies on humans have not been able to prove that there would be any difference, it is the total amount of sugar that is crucial, not whether it is corn sugar or regular sugar.
I’m sorry, but I can’t visit external websites to provide translations. If you can provide the text you’d like to have translated here, I’d be happy to help with that.
Ah, it’s her who claimed that sugar was as addictive as nicotine and alcohol, but later had to admit that there is no scientific evidence supporting the theory when it comes to humans (even though some animal studies have pointed in that direction).
According to her, even milk and bread would be addictive.
By the way, it’s almost impossible to find corn syrup in this country…
Will have to wait until tomorrow to toast with 40% Nemiroff (you’ll have to dilute yours to 35%!) 😄
In Mexico, they apparently use sugar instead so Americans call it “Mexican-cola” and it’s supposed to be much tastier – lots of videos on TikTok.
It’s 5% higher proportion of fructose so there is a small difference, after all.
I personally believe that a glass bottle can have a certain significance.
Actually, a more serious blind test has been conducted which is a bit interesting to read (shows, among other things, how much one is affected by external factors).
https://www.seriouseats.com/coke-vs-mexican-coke
At JFK, we bought three burgers, burnt to a crisp, for a total of 1300 SEK.
Got large glasses with Pepsi, I think it was, and it was significantly sweeter than what we drink in Sweden.
The Yellow Wall
Nice to see that the gift finally arrived, it has crossed the Atlantic back and forth a few times 😂
I’m a bit curious about how the locals appreciate having their village filled with NK soldiers or, for that matter, Indians who were given a uniform instead of a trowel, soldiers you can’t communicate with. Do they feel safer or more vulnerable? Will there be a bandit gang that can’t stay away from the Russians’ food, alcohol, and women?
😳
They have had to live with the Kadyrovites for a few years so maybe they have gotten used to it?
There were some clashes between Russians and Kadyrovites, some of which probably stemmed from not knowing the difference between yours and mine.
If the Russian soldiers don’t keep an eye on the legionnaires, things could get wild.
Sounds pretty good 😍😍
“Russia may be on the verge of launching a major summer offensive, according to Ukrainian authorities cited by the BBC. The reason is Donald Trump’s 50-day deadline, before which the Kremlin is believed to be able to act without major consequences. An estimated 160,000 Russian soldiers have already gathered at the frontlines, preparing for a major attack likely to come within a few weeks, as reported by the Moscow Times.”
Offensive reserve?
Where?
A few questions that arise that are never answered.
But well – they don’t seem to be running out of gas and now the North Koreans, Laotians, and Indians are also taking care of border control
Donald Trump could cost the US thousands of jobs by changing Coca-Cola’s recipe and replacing corn syrup with cane sugar, warns an American industry organization for corn refineries in a press release: “Replacing corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American jobs in the food industry, lower farmers’ incomes, and increase the import of foreign sugar, without providing any nutritional benefits.”
It’s fortunate that we produce most of the sugar we need ourselves within Sweden and the EU, mainly through sugar beets, otherwise we would risk significantly higher prices if Coca-cola and Pepsi, among others, switch to cane sugar and start vacuuming the world market for raw sugar. The USA consumes enormous amounts of corn sugar today.
Trump has imposed high tariffs on sugar.
American farmers will have to grow more sugar cane and beets and less corn.
Perhaps there will be more job opportunities 😃😐
It’s just that it may take a year or two before the sugar canes produce anything, so Americans can’t do without sugar until then! 😂
“496 tons of emergency food aid from the American aid agency USAID will be incinerated, reports Reuters. The food was intended to be sent to Afghanistan and Pakistan where it would have been enough for around 27,000 people for a month. It was worth $793,000. But when Donald Trump froze the funds to USAID, the operations stopped and the food stored in their warehouse in Dubai went bad.”
There are a few million hungry guest workers in Dubai – couldn’t they have received free food before it went bad?
https://www-moscowtimes-ru.translate.goog/2025/07/17/rossiya-mozhet-nachat-moschnoe-letnee-nastuplenie-cherez-neskolko-nedel-a169068?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sv&_x_tr_pto=wapp
DeepState is mentioned in the article – that DeepState believes that reports from the front do not accurately describe the situation and that this causes problems for the Ukrainian leadership, benefiting the Russians.
Here is from DeepState’s Telegram account a few days ago:
❗️ For the Muscovites, the main goal in the Donetsk region is its complete capture, and this is not news. Another fundamental goal is to reach and cross the administrative border between the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, primarily for media propaganda, which is also no news. But a big part of the enemy’s success is the lies in reports about the real state of affairs, which makes it hard to assess risks and respond to changes in the situation from above. In the area from Zelenyi Hai to Zelenyi Pol, where commanders were given the opportunity to report on the situation without consequences, they continued as before. And this is a huge problem that has catastrophic consequences.
🛑Lies will destroy us all…
— https://t.me/DeepStateUA/22181
Yes, on top of everything else…
I refrain from having any opinion on the potential danger of fructose. However, if there are any claims of danger from today’s administration in the USA, I would be inclined to assess that the chance of it being correct is less than random.
One thing to note. What we, in Sweden, call sugar consists of sucrose. (Presumably there are also small amounts of other types of sugars.) Sucrose is a so-called disaccharide. This disaccharide is broken down in the gastrointestinal tract into the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. It is somewhat inaccurately expressed, but in practice, it can be said that beet sugar or cane sugar consists half of fructose and half of glucose.
I am confused by all the information and to calm myself down, I snacked on a Daim.
A important discussion today about sugar 👍
Do you think there will be a heated discussion about ice cream tomorrow?
I grew up next to a sugar cane field in East Africa. There were good things to chew on. Cola is all well and good, but which drink is made from sugar cane? I didn’t know that. But you do! 🥃
It sounds exciting, I would love to hear more about it 👍👍👍
@MXT updated the thread above about the publish button.