Kyiv’s unprecedented strike campaign on Russian oil refineries has inflicted serious—but likely not critical—damage on the country’s ability to produce fuel.
38% is a great number. High enough to sound very significant, but not so high that people question why Russia hasn’t collapsed already. Ukraine could have used this kind of restraint in their propaganda earlier in the war. If this headline were written 3 years ago they’d claim they’d destroyed 138% of Russia’s refining capacity.
And once we went “dude just fucking sit down and ask yourself how you can destroy more than 100% of something” they’d go “lol these Russian bots will deny the most obviously true stuff, the NYT, CNN, and BBC are all fake news now are they?”
38% is a great number. High enough to sound very significant, but not so high that people question why Russia hasn’t collapsed already. Ukraine could have used this kind of restraint in their propaganda earlier in the war. If this headline were written 3 years ago they’d claim they’d destroyed 138% of Russia’s refining capacity.
THE GHOST OF KIEV DESTROYS ENTIRE RUSSIAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY WITH A SINGLE BULLET MARKED 'LOL'And once we went “dude just fucking sit down and ask yourself how you can destroy more than 100% of something” they’d go “lol these Russian bots will deny the most obviously true stuff, the NYT, CNN, and BBC are all fake news now are they?”
indeed