Wouldn’t it be pretty much lights out for the whole country in pretty short order? Almost half of their electricity generation is from natural gas.

Ukraine should be able to pretty quickly hit all their refineries, fuel, oil, and gas storage, and gas pipeline connections to Russia, and the country just stops functioning. Hit the transformer station at their single NPP and interconnects with Russia and it’s pretty much a complete blackout and not a rolling one either, just no more electricity, period. Unlike Ukraine they can’t be supplied from outside because their only friendly neighbour is already struggling themselves…

And Lukashenko would know that. No chance in hell he would ever risk that.

Yeah, seems difficult to guess how it will affect Europe. Certainly no more ice free coastlines in the north during winter though.

But for North America it might end up much worse.

The hot water will stay in the Gulf of Mexico, so hurricanes might end up being insane.

that’s what makes me feel like Russia is screwed.

Those missiles are just strolling in and Russia seems unable to deal with them.

We seem to be seeing such strikes every day now. What will happen in another six months when Ukraine can produce 2-3 times as many such missiles?

or, if possible, tunnels.

you completely missed the point they were making. It has absolutely nothing to do with consumers suffering in the US.

It doesn’t make much sense to hit the pipelines if the refining infrastructure is broken. In that case they don’t have anything to send through the pipelines anymore anyway.

For oil yes, of course. But for gas it’s my understanding that it’s processed closer to the extraction sites, so it might not necessarily be in reach (yet). Although it seems like Ukraine just hit a gas processing plant in Orenburg a few days ago.

If Ukraine can extend their reach to 2500-3000km then they could probably reach most gas processing plants.

with the huge amount of drones they seem to have at their disposal now they could probably set aside half a dozen each day to blow a hole in a random gas pipeline at a random location. Maybe once they’re done dismantling Russia’s oil refining infrastructure.

The plant may use other units to resume operations in the near future, it is noted.

Kinda depends on whether or not further kinetic sanctions are applied

I’ll be impressed when his car hasn’t caught fire after a month.

Some probably know but are afraid to say it

I’m no expert, but my gut tells me this might not help the fuel crisis in Crimea.

if she doesn’t have any data on the benefits (and she doesn’t, because there aren’t) then the question regarding harms is moot to begin with. Don’t cut up children’s bodies without a medical necessity, period.

Because that requires acknowledging the value and struggles of people outside yourself

That’s just an explanation of what empathy is, not an explanation as to why empathy should have no limits.

Nope. Read Geneva convention once again

“The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Only thing I could find that’s relevant, but doesn’t apply since she moved there on her own accord. Mind helping me find the section you are thinking of?

Empathy is never earned

Why not?

she moved to occupied land during an active war becoming a participant in the occupation. She does not show any empathy towards the people whose land she is occupying, yet you’re asking us to have empathy for her because her occupation is not going as planned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen

It’s such an amazing idea.

My third paragraph excludes LLMs, why can’t you just go back and read the whole comment instead of just insisting to be right.

Also if you do that you will find “learn to improve” not “manage completely autonomously”

This entire thread is you just ferociously arguing a series of strawmen. Just stop.

“But you can”

Are you unable to read further than the “but you can” part, where it says “machine learning algorithm”, and not “generative AI”?

I very highly doubt that Ukraine is trying to automate command rooms to give orders based on GPT hallucinations.

But you can definitely have machine learning algorithms learn how to effectively control drone swarms. Or learn to improve logistics and things like that.

Machine learning algorithms are also called AI and have been around for way longer than GPT or Grok

I specifically excluded generative AI like GPT, or Claude in my post, so why are you bringing that back up?