The damage to an oil pipeline at Russia’s Baltic port of Primorsk fits into a larger pattern that is becoming harder to ignore. Energy infrastructure is no longer treated merely as economic plumbing. It is being targeted, defended, insured, and narrated as strategic terrain. Ports, pipelines, export terminals, refineries, storage sites, and shipping routes now sit inside the … [Read more...] about Primorsk and the Expanding Logic of Energy Infrastructure Warfare
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Slovakia’s Sanctions Dissent Shows Europe’s Unity Problem Has Not Been Solved
When Slovakia’s prime minister argues that the European Union should drop sanctions on Russian oil and gas in the name of energy security, the statement lands far beyond Bratislava. It exposes an old problem that Europe never fully resolved: sanctions regimes are often presented as unified moral instruments, but they remain vulnerable to internal economic fatigue, asymmetric … [Read more...] about Slovakia’s Sanctions Dissent Shows Europe’s Unity Problem Has Not Been Solved
Russian Su-34 crashing into a block of flats in the city of Yeysk
Footage is circulating of what is reportedly the aftermath of a Russian Su-34 crashing into a block of flats in the city of Yeysk in Krasnodar TerritoryJudging by the bangs, it was loaded up with ammunitionThe pilot apparently managed to eject pic.twitter.com/AZmPBHsADX— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 17, 2022 … [Read more...] about Russian Su-34 crashing into a block of flats in the city of Yeysk