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Warpy

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13. Russian boilers don't need Ukraine to bomb them
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:03 PM
Dec 12

Their system, which people I know who have moved to the former Eastern Bloc countries , is superior to anything they experienced here in the US except heating by heated water circulating under the floors, something a lot of rich people have. Flats are toasty on the coldest days and cooled by crackin windows on warmer days, increasing fresh air indoors. The problem is decades of kludge repairs instead of refits. Strikes on electrical substations mean the pumps won't work, meaning even more stress is put onto a good but crumbling and leaking system.

Transportaton has been getting worse outside Moscow. if a delivery of something is going to Moscow, the trucker knows he can refuel there and get back home. That isn't true in the other oblasts, refueling can mean a wait of a week or two, so things just aren't being delivered as regularly as they should be---like food, fertilizer for farmers, even mail. It's aslo preventing food from getting from farm to processor or market. General Winter is going to bring hunger, if not famine, to a lot of Russia.

Honestly, if the world had wanted to destroy Russia, it couldn't have done a btter job than Putin has.

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