so now that Russia’s oil infrastructure is in shambles they’re expanding the strikes to Russia’s gas infrastructure.

Almost half of Russia’s electricity comes from gas.

No fuel for logistics, possibly a bad harvest, and blackouts. And if Russia doesn’t stop before winter then no heating either.

This might end up having a bit of a negative impact on their GDP.

how much of that goes to Chinese manufacturers of replacement parts though?

That’s how corruption and organized crime ends up causing way more damage than it makes in profit.

Make an extra 100 bucks in profit from diluting fuel, cause 10000 bucks in damages.

They care a lot.

About all the money they’re making.

didn’t realize the RCMP was gonna get an airforce and unlimited supply of bombs.

They’re going to be so incredibly screwed if Ukraine ever manages to take out the Omsk refinery

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.

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.

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.

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?

why?