Bear With Me For This One
What Conrad needed was a word that rhymed with 'Twenty Twenty-Five' and immediately thought of 'Ogive' which I looked up in my new 'Collins Concise English Dictionary' - that trick of having the word in sky blue as opposed to the definition being in black really helps - and it's "A diagonal rib or groin of a Gothic vault", which didn't sound too promising. However - O that word again! - when I did a quick Google, I found exactly what I wanted in the form of a graph. Which is deadly dull and doesn't pull the punters in, so instead - Art!
That, seemingly, is a 'sinister evil computer'. More dramatic than HAL one supposes. Art!
This is the fresh-faced young scamp, filming in Kyiv. He looks about 17 and shares the secret of not aging with Justin Bronk, whom pr
ANYWAY Caolan lives in Ukraine and regularly does documentaries on the war there, putting himself in harm's way to do so. I seem to recall that he's classed by Ruffia as a 'war criminal' because he did a report on the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk, which the orcs don't like to talk about. So, his first item was the humiliating blackout in Barad-Dur, where 600,000 Moscovians are now without power, after a Ukrainian drone strike. Art!
Events like this are what Putinpot dreads above all, because they affect the Moscovian elite, bringing the war home to them in a very direct way. Art!
'Twas also hilarious to see the speed with which mobile generators, as above, were sent out to power individual apartment blocks. Otherwise the poor dears would have to take the stairs. Power may be back by the 6th of January. Art!
Caolan's next point was the scaling-up of Ukrainian drone production, to the point that in 2025 drone attacks went from monthly in January, to weekly, to daily and on New Year's Eve, three times in a single day. Since the FSB will track down anyone who posts videos of these strikes, many are going undocumented. Art!
Then there was Syria. Note the past tense. Ruffia used to have the warm water port of Tartus, and helped to prop up the loathsome Assad regime, especially with airpower, allowing it to exert geopolitical influence in the Middle East. All now gone. Rumour has it that the Kremlin is trying to prop up the regime in Iran during a country-wide wave of protests there, because it can't afford to lose it's only other Middle Eastern ally. Ooops. Art!
That's the rather spiffy new Syrian bank notes.
Next it was time to look at the Ruffian economy, or what's left of it. We have covered this on numerous occasions since the Special Idiotic Operation began, but it bears repeating because it's gotten so much worse of late. Art!
Banks in Modern-Day Mordor are now preventing people from withdrawing large sums of money from their accounts, a process that has sped up over 2025 as the fear of savings being either wiped out or stolen by the state continue to mount up. Conrad suspects that there is insufficient liquidity in the Ruffian banking system to prevent a run on the banks, hence the delaying tactics. Art!
These are images from the 'Telegram' channel, from people who dared to incur the wrath of the FSB by posting images of the ongoing Ukrainian 'Bingo Board' attacks on refineries. Refining capacity is down by at least 25% and possibly up to 40%, impacting revenues.
In the non military-industrial sector, output has dropped every single month for the past seven months. The price of petrol and food has spiked sharply, so much so that even official Ruffian media have been admitting how bad things are. Art!
Hello Steve Rosenberg! Caolan quotes several of his translations of articles showing just how bad things are getting, and if the orcs are getting into debt now, wait until 2026, when utility bills are going to increase by at least 10%. Art!
Another phenomenon of 2025 was employers no longer being able to pay workers, which in any other nation would result in riots, but the orcses meekly continue to work without getting paid, the credulous serfs. Art!
One of the ways Putinpot and his minions try to conceal the huge scale of orc losses is by classifying them as 'missing' rather than 'dead', because 'dead' means the state has to pay compensation to relatives. Over 111,000 requests to clarify these missing cases had been filed, which has now been pruned of 70,000 cases. No, these people won't ever get to know what happened to a spouse or relative but Hey! the state will save money. Art!
He also mentioned horses, and added a fact new to me: that they are terrified of the sound of FPV drones, and will buck off their rider once they hear the horrid high-pitched whining of these little horrors. This means the orcs get scragged, not the horses. Does this matter? Yes it does; as I have said before, Ukrainians are utter softies when it comes to animals. Art!
Boom boom in the afternoon
The Ruffian shadow fleet of knackered old tankers experienced kinetic sanctions at sea, which has instantly trebled insurance costs. Whether captains and crews will want to serve on a gigantic floating petrol bomb that may get hit with a drone remains to be seen. Whether the oil pier termini will still exist to load tankers is another moot point. Whether the pipelines and pumping stations to move oil to those termini is - you may be ahead of me here - another moot point. Art!
The pins are sites of fourteen anti-aircraft systems protecting Bunker Midget's Valdai residence, which he claimed got attacked by 91 drones, which were all shot down, except other sources say 41 drones, and there's absolutely no evidence this attack ever happened. A unconvincing AI clip is circulating on Twitter, where a car drives through a large fountain as if it's not there, and this only surfaced several days after the raid, or, in other words, the orcs realised they needed proof of this terrible evil awful attack. Donnie Dorko, to whom this tale was spun, instantly believed it, because he's a senile moron who worships the Kremlin Gremlin. Nobody else fell for it. Why make such a claim? So that the next Ruffian outrage can be framed as a 'proportionate response'. Art!
At 00:50 seconds into the vlog, this bloke was just walking down the steps to Caolan's left rear.
Oooops Ouch
Pinned by @CaolanReports
Hmmm, there we are at Count, all on one subject. O well, it's not like you have to pay to read this scrivel.
