We're Going To Look Backwards Before We Look Forwards
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To the days of the Second Unpleasantness, in fact, and even when we return to the present, there will still be a bit of a sternward gaze involved. Okay, Art!
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| The Handley Page 'Hampden', with a fuselage only 3 feet wide |
The Brylkreem Bomber Boys of the RAF began the war with only 280 aircraft and 15,000 personnel. By the time hostilities ceased in 1945 they had over 1,500 aircraft, of immeasurably greater quality, and 250,000 personnel. Art!
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| Lannies being giant flying mallets |
Conrad himself remembers seeing the first orc film of a single Kozaky drone on it's way to hit a Ruffian refinery, when it was treated with amused contempt at the idea of such a novel concept, waaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2023.
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| Yes he likes books as much as I do |
Okay, in his vlog 'Ruffian Officials Are Starting To Say The Quiet Part Out Loud', published 25/05/2026, he notes that Urals crude is retailing at $87 per barrel, or about twice what it was selling for before Trump's war with Iran, yet about a third down from peak price. I checked and it's now down to around $55 per barrel, meaning it's heading for the $40 early 026 total, where the orcs lost money on every barrel they sold. $87 per barrel seems like a fever dream now. The city of Tver is now rationing petrol - big news at the time - whilst Duma Chairman Valery Gartung warned of the current ₽11 trillion deficit and that inflation was likely to rise to ruinous levels. Art!
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Overall, Ruffian refineries fuel production was down by 10%, allegedly, and the orcs were importing petrol from Belarus.
Critically, the price of vodka had increased by 15% at this date. Some smart alecs are suggesting that the Kozaky target Ruffian distilleries to deprive orcs of their favourite liquid, which would indeed bring the government down overnight if managed strategically.
In the next vlog of 01/06/2026, "Daily Ruffian Casualties Remain High", the Prof remarks about Pantsir AA systems being helicoptered onto rooftops near the Kremlin. Art!
Furthermore, Ruffian industry is now obliged to arm itself for defence against drones, meaning that the Kremlin is unable and unwilling to do so and, in classic Putinpot style, is passing the buck. Ruffian ships in the occupied port of Berdiansk were attacked again. Art!
The other target was a tugboat. Not very sexy but essential for port operations.
Prof G also mentioned the big Ruffian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, 265 drones being launched, 228 being downed. If we assume those are Geran drones, then they use at least 40 gallons of petrol each, meaning the orcs expended over 10,000 gallons in a single night. How howlingly ironic that seems six weeks later!
Also, another metric to bear in mind, if the orcs lose more than 1,120 casualties per day, then they cannot replace them, as this total exceeds their daily recruitment tally. No mention of mobilisation in early June at this juncture.
The Logistics Lockdown has begun - in the space of 2 days the orcs lost over 1,000 trucks and tankers. Art!
The Prof's vlog on 03/06/2026 is one we've already covered, as it was the one dealing with the Ukrainian attacks on Saint Petersbug just as attendees were arriving for the Saint Petersbug International Economic Forum. The title is pretty apt - "Putin Humiliated". The attacks were so obvious and blatant that even he had to admit that the Kozaky had hit something - 'a pile of coal' according to him. Air travel was suspended, meaning SPIEF members had to travel from airports outside Barad Duh to the meeting. O the poor dears!
Conrad noted that there was one element missing from the Ukrainian strikes - air raid sirens. Despite the attacks occurring serially, not simultaneously, no alarms were raised because - the SPIEF attendees cannot be given the wrong impression, can they? 437 trucks and tankers destroyed in one day. Art!
What you see burning and exploding here is the Ruffian navy arsenal at Bolshaya Izhora, as mentioned in the Prof's 06/06/2026 vlog 'Putin's Problems Are Multiplying Fast'. That's an alleged 5,000 tons of munitions going up in smoke, including cruise missiles for the Baltic Fleet at $4 million apiece. Ooops. The Prof, somewhat gloatingly, mentions Prez Zed informing the world that the Ukrainian strike drones flew more than 1,000 kilometres to strike Ruffia's second city, which seemed like an awfully long distance at the time. Which is all of a month ago.
In other breaking news, the Swedes detain a Ruffian grain ship. Big news at the time.
I shall now shift my annotations to 'Jake Broe' as he had returned from his Sorkland sojourn. Art!
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| "30 Minutes Of Ruffia Getting It's A$$ Kicked By Ukrainian Drones" |
As of 13/06/2026, it's now the stated aim of Ukraine to deprive Krim of any fuel, by destroying fuel tankers, road and rail bridges. By this date they now have the M-4 highway under fire control, and have their mid-range drones patrolling to the shores of the Black Sea. 25 regions in Mordorvia now have problems with fuel supply, out of 83 total. Not good, but in three weeks that's going to look positively balmy. The total of crude being refined falls for the sixth successive month, which is an economic disaster in the making, because the refined fuels Ruffia was selling bring in at least twice what crude does. Art!
"Massive Oil Depot North Of Moscow Obliterated By Ukrainian Drones" is Jake's vlog from 18/06/026. Before we get to that, the above picture shows the two Ruffian ferro-concrete bridges at Chongar, which are now out of commission thanks to at least 5 Kozaky drone strikes upon them, thus cutting off supplies into Krim from the north-east. The orcs have put a pontoon bridge into place, which is only one lane wide and which creates a bottleneck. The Ukrainians decided to be the corkscrew. Art!
Jake's pointer is over a hole created by a previous drone. The pontoon at Chongar is now out of service. Art!
That was the macro-economic scale. Here we see the micro-economic in action. The orcs had not been forbidden to use individual cans or containers to prevent them from greedily appropriating all the fuel. Don't forget, this is 18/06/2026; if you tried this as brazenly today you'd be shot, stabbed or strangled by your fuel-less compatriots. Art!
That pointer is at the location of the Rybinsk fuel storage depot, which, if Art will put down his bowl of coal -
Ukrainian drones striking this depot need to travel at least 700 kilometres and probably over 800, since they need to avoid all the SAM systems ringing Moscow. They managed it at least three times. Art!
A brace of tanks already on fire with a third drone ready to join in the flammable fun. As a rule of thumb, each of those fires is destroying $5 million of fuel and $1 million in infrastructure. Art!
A strike 2,500 kilometres into Mordorvia by drones that now have a 3,400 kilometre range. This means nothing is beyond range. So much for the nervous clucking orcs who wanted to shift everything beyond the Urals. Art!
That's almost one every hour. That single grain ship seized by the Swedes looks a bit feeble now, doesn't it?
There you have it, an exponential expansion in the Kozaky's abilities to interdict and mallet the orcs on their doorstep, their neighbour's doorstep and the doorstep of those people three cities over. We haven't even covered how the Ukrainians used AI to help their drones to mimic the flight patterns of a flock of birds, thus allowing them to get into terminal diving distance from juicy orc targets. On the other hand, THIS IS HOW YOU GET SKYNET!
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