{"id":37146,"date":"2022-12-01T22:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37146"},"modified":"2022-12-01T23:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:01:06","slug":"everybody-predicts-we-are-going-to-face-an-ice-cold-winter-in-the-global-north-especially-in-europe-and-particularly-in-ukraine-in-the-meantime-russia-is-amassing-along-the-northern-ukrai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37146","title":{"rendered":"<em>Everybody predicts we are going to face an ice-cold winter in the&nbsp;Global&nbsp;North, especially in Europe and particularly in Ukraine. In the meantime, Russia is amassing along the northern Ukrainian border some half a million-plus troops and about 1,500 tanks and massive-massive artillery.<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine is already devastated by knocked out electricity, causing blackouts in about 60% of the country, no heating, due to lack of gas and petrol supplies from Russia and \/ or (auto-)destroyed internal delivery systems, with expected low sub-freezing temperatures of -15 degrees C and more, literally converting millions of people into refugees \u2013 towards western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation is already desperate. No Heat. No food. No energy. No light. Darkness and cold. Outright misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s said, President Putin is just waiting for the ground to freeze solid, so Russian tanks and troops will not get stuck in the mud. Once that happens \u2013 he will command the Endgame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Putin\u2019s last option<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the offer&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Russia will impose a solution.<\/strong>\u00a0If, as expected, it becomes clear that the West can\u2019t or won\u2019t negotiate, it will behoove Russia to implement a maximalist solution. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternatively,\u00a0Russia\u00a0\u201cbargains\u201d by showing that it\u00a0can create a dead zone in Western Ukraine as big as it likes.\u00a0If Ukraine and its US minders don\u2019t come to their senses, that dead zone will be awfully big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine is already devastated by knocked out electricity, causing blackouts in about 60% of the country, no heating, due to lack of gas and petrol supplies from Russia and \/ or (auto-)destroyed internal delivery systems, with expected low sub-freezing temperatures of -15 degrees C and more, literally converting millions of people into refugees \u2013 towards &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37149,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37146\/revisions\/37149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}