Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that it has prompted Russia to issue a warning to European countries and industries against funding its long-range drone production.

The warning came after Ukraine reached a new series of agreements with European defence companies this week.

“We consider this decision to be a deliberate step leading to a sharp escalation of the military and political situation on the entire European continent and creeping transformation of these countries into a strategic rear for Ukraine,” said a statement from the Russian defence ministry on Wednesday this week.

Russia warned of “unpredictable consequences” and said that “the moves of European leaders are increasingly dragging these countries into the war with Russia.”

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    Gosh, if only there was something Russia could do in order to stop these reprisal attacks from the country they are currently invading and bombing.

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    into the what? War? Where! Special op, mister!

    Also; is that you, Lavrov? 🖕🖕🖕

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    Well guess what, Russia, there might be very predictable consequences to bombing a single location in the EU, like a total war against all of its military forces combined…

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      Quickly losing a war against the entire rest of the world might be better than the existing option of slowly losing a war against their much smaller neighbor from their perspective.

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    | Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that <snip/>

    Beautiful news! Thank you for sharing!

    I wonder if there’s a meme out there that would be appropriate in light of this development to suggest that more of this is greatly desired.

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      8 days ago

      If Russia was going to do anything it would have done so right at the start of the war. They cannot afford to be at a war with NATO, even without the US they would get flattened

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        Got to hand it to them though, they’ve done a fantastic job of hastening European re-armament and ultimate independance from the US.

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          For all their vaunted global strategy, they’re quite stupid at anticipating very predictable blowback against their cunning plans.

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    Why are will the right wing dictators starting wars and then losing them?