🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 US-Ukrainian Drone Campaign Targeting Crimea
▪️US directed drone strikes on Russia include specifically a campaign targeting Crimea including logistics to the peninsula - highways, ferries, and bridges, but also fuel storage and transport;
▪️This has triggered a fuel crisis for the civilian population but will have no direct impact on Russian military operations along the rest of the line of contact;
▪️The primary purpose of punishing the civilian population of Crimea is to force Russia to divert military resources there to alleviate the crisis and thus spread Russian forces thin elsewhere;
▪️No matter how bad the crisis becomes for civilians in Crimea, Ukraine lacks the manpower to actually take any of the territory it is attacking;
▪️In addition to diverting resources to Crimea, the campaign feeds into the larger propaganda campaign US-enabled/directed drone strikes across all of Russia are committed to;
▪️In all, it will slow Russian forces down and raise the cost further for Russia regarding the entire war, but it will not change the ultimate outcome at this point;
▪️It should be remembered that proxy war with Russia in Ukraine was a 2019 RAND Corporation "Extending Russia" policy option designed specifically to create tremendous costs for Russia, not necessarily defeat Russia - in this sense - the constantly rising cost of the war for Russia is a strategic US success unless Russia is able to emerge both victorious and strategically stronger;
❤️🇮🇷🇲🇽 IRANIAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON FIFA WORLD CUP
“Iran’s National Team has been one of the most unfairly treated teams in the history of the FIFA World Cup” - Ambassador Pasandideh
RTÉ @drivetimerte is basically BBC Ireland and this point, with adverts. The idea that the Irish public are paying for London’s editorial framing of international affairs a century after independence is shocking. #RTÉ