This blog began 24 June 2011 for sharing the soldier perspective. It has since become imperative for humanity as a collective to accept that not all soldiers wear uniforms. Each of us is capable of bravery, courage, and activism in the face of adversity, hate, oppression, and religious fascism. Together, knowledge and understanding can combat hatred borne of fear and ignorance. A collection of stills, video, and prose. Curated by Rhi; no content is mine unless marked [-R] Main side blog @rhi-etzweiler.
“We are unique among the world’s armies. We are unique among the world’s militaries. We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant, or to a dictator, or to a wannabe dictator. We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea, that as America, we are willing to die to protect it.”
“Those values and ideas are contained within the Constitution of the United States of America which is the moral North Star for all of us who had the privilege to wear the cloth of our nation. It’s that document that all of us wearing that uniform swear to protect and defend against all enemies, foreign, and domestic. Those who sacrificed themselves upon the alter of freedom the last two and a half centuries of this country must not have done so in vain. The millions wounded in this nations wars did not sacrifice their limbs, and shed their blood, to see this great experiment in democracy perish from this earth. No. We the American people, we the American military must never turn our backs on those who came before us. We will never turn our back on the Constitution. That is our North Star. That is who we are, and that is why we fight.”
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Just your annual heads up, Northern Ontario is actively on fire with little resources from the provincial government to combat them. Over 144 fires on record, you've seen the fire from Armstrong and another from Collins, but several First Nations along the corridor have lost their homes and have been displaced. Please keep them in mind this season as the fires have devastated their homes and displaced them, some were evacuated to Niagara where they face indiscriminate racism.
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Ukraine’s latest campaign against Russian oil facilities has begun to affect the harvest. The Kremlin is short on fuel and even shorter on o
Jay Kuo at The Big Picture:
On July 6, Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s largest oil refinery, in the Siberian city of Omsk, some 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Until that night, the Omsk facility was one of only two of the country’s top ten refineries Ukraine had not yet hit. Ukraine’s General Staff called it the last of the country’s 11 largest gasoline producers to fall.
The same week, Ukrainian drone units struck 21 vessels near occupied Crimea, including 19 sanctioned tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet hauling gasoline to the peninsula.
The effect of Ukraine’s escalated attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure is already visible. Gas lines and fuel rationing have spread across nearly all of Russia’s 83 regions. Yet shortages at the pump are only the beginning. The fuel crunch is now moving into Russia’s farm fields, where the harvest is underway, and from there to Russian dinner tables.
Russia’s response to the crisis has been telling: restrict supply, offer half-measures to address the crisis and continue massive fuel subsidies rather than allow prices to rise.
That’s a combustible national situation that could endanger Putin’s murderous four-year war against Ukraine as well as his iron grip on power.
Refineries and Tankers
The Omsk refinery processes more than 22 million tons of crude oil a year, roughly 10 percent of Russia’s total refining capacity. Ukraine’s drones hit the refinery’s primary crude-processing unit, which Ukrainian special forces described as its most vital component. Reuters later reported the damaged unit accounts for roughly 38 percent of the refinery’s total production capacity. By Tuesday, the refinery had suspended petrol and diesel sales on Russia’s main commodities exchange entirely. Omsk supplies more than half of the motor fuel used in Siberia.
Omsk was not the only target that night. Ukrainian intelligence units struck another of Russia’s five largest refineries, roughly 700 kilometers from the border, along with a fuel terminal on the Baltic Sea and a petroleum storage facility in occupied Crimea. Ukraine has hit Russian refineries at least 194 times in the first half of 2026 alone, reaching a record monthly pace in May.
At sea, the campaign has been brutal for Russia as well. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces opened an operation on the night of July 6, hitting 12 tankers hauling gasoline toward occupied Crimea over the first two nights. Nine more tankers followed on July 8, bringing the three-day total to 21 vessels struck: 19 sanctioned shadow-fleet tankers, a cargo ship and a ferry. Commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi identified several of the tankers by name, noting each was sanctioned, roughly 140 meters long, and built between 2006 and 2012.
In a June 26 letter to the International Maritime Organization, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Oleksii Kuleba argued the shadow fleet is “critical to the generation of budget revenues for the Russian Federation.” Industry estimates put the global shadow fleet at more than 1,500 tankers; Ukraine has struck roughly a dozen sanctioned vessels by name since the current campaign began.
Occupied Crimea depends on these deliveries because the bridge connecting it to Russia was severely damaged in 2025 and remains closed to heavy vehicles. Russian-installed authorities in Crimea had already introduced fuel rationing in late May, before this latest round of strikes began.
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Warning One: The harvest is being hit
Diesel and gasoline are different products with different supply pictures. Before the war, Russian refineries produced roughly twice as much diesel as the country consumed domestically, a surplus that has been shrinking since 2022 as export markets in the European Union closed, Moscow Times opinion writer Dmitry Nekrasov has noted. Gasoline production, by contrast, barely covered domestic demand even before the war.
Arkady Zlochevsky, president of the Russian Grain Union, said the worst fuel shortages are already hitting small and medium-sized farms, which account for the bulk of Russia’s grain production. A Bloomberg survey of eight farmers across several regions found only two had enough fuel to complete the harvest; three had already paid for fuel that had not been delivered; and the remaining three had enough for roughly two weeks before needing to buy again at current prices. One farmer in Russia’s Volga region said growers who didn’t stock up before prices surged will now pay any price, “because nobody will leave the crop in the field.” He said the added cost could push farmers to shift acreage away from winter crops and toward spring planting in 2027.
Altai Krai, Siberia’s largest agricultural producer and Russia’s single largest buckwheat-growing region, illustrates how sharply costs have moved. Fuel expenses for the region’s farmers have risen roughly 2.5-fold over the past year, compounded by rising fertilizer costs—after the Strait of Hormuz disruption drove up global fertilizer prices. A regional lawmaker warned the combination could produce what she called a “food catastrophe.”
The head of a regional agricultural industry group told a local outlet that, at current fuel prices, harvesting grain is becoming unprofitable, and that some farmers may find it cheaper to leave crops standing in the field than pay to bring them in. One farmer in the region’s Rebrikha district said fertilizer was simply unavailable to buy this year. Altai has since introduced formal rationing, requiring drivers to present vehicle registration to buy fuel.
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What Comes Next
This intensified phase of Ukraine’s campaign against Russian oil infrastructure is only weeks old. Russia’s daily refined oil output fell by up to 700,000 barrels, a 13 percent decline, in April and May alone, and losses deepened further after Ukraine struck two more major refineries in mid-June.
In that short span, as discussed above, shortages have spread to nearly all of Russia’s regions. The government has turned to subsidies, export bans and lower fuel quality standards. And a harvest that Russia’s own Grain Union president says depends on farms without adequate diesel reserves is already behind schedule.
Nowhere has the strain shown more plainly than in occupied Crimea. The Russian-controlled government there has declared a state of emergency, banned fuel sales outright, and has seen empty shelves and purchase limits on basic goods.
But what happens if and when more of Russia’s refining capacity goes offline, and fuel cannot reliably reach every region that needs it? Nekrasov takes the measured view: shortages are likely to worsen each summer through 2027, ease each autumn, and remain unlikely to seriously affect economic activity outside the regions closest to the front. But even that restrained assessment comes with a warning. The Kremlin’s tools are narrowing: lower fuel standards and imports from neighboring countries cannot fully offset a continuing decline in refining capacity. Subsidies that keep prices low are already so costly they constrain the budget rather than relieve it.
Russia is losing the oil and gas part of its war against Ukraine.
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I refuse to believe someone would be so stupid. I KNOW that IOF terrorist fully comprehends why a Palestinian boy would do that. I know he’s aware that Palestinians are human and think human things and have human sentimentalities. That is a grown ass adult.
He is not stupid. He is WILLFULLY stupid. He is SELECTIVELY stupid. And the fact that this man is infantilizing himself by saying he just can’t understand it is so transparent.
I have another read of it, beloved anon. That soldier is not stupid - that soldier has dehumanised Palestinians to the point where he observes their behaviour like a scientist would a beast’s. “Why would the dog go back to the master if it knew he would get kicked again?”, “Why would those Arabs go try and get that body knowing we would shoot them?”
And the most disgusting thing is that in the video footage of the interview he actually says “I don’t know, I thought the second boy was trying to get intelligence from the first boy’s clothes”. Palestinians are so removed from the human species that it doesn’t make sense to him that a boy and a father (Montasser, who ran as soon as he knew that his children had died, screaming “my boys!”) would run to their loved ones’ bodies.
That’s what I said that is Nazi mentality: the coldness of that dehumanisation, the disinterest, the calm in knowing that you would be safe and protected spewing that bile
Roughly 24 hours after the Iran blockade went back into effect, US forces fired on a tanker attempting to head towards Iran’s Kharg Island. Seen here, multiple Hellfire missiles are fired into the engine room of the M/T Belma in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. 15 July 2026
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There will be bloodshed. And I'm saying it right now, there's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.
On this day, 16 July 1862, Black feminist, anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
After the lynching murders of three of her friends for the "crime" of setting up a grocery store which competed with a white-owned store she undertook a detailed investigation of lynchings and their causes.
Wells' work countered the popular myth that most lynchings were to punish alleged rapists, and showed that instead most were for such "crimes" as failing to pay debts, competing with whites economically or drinking alcohol. She recommended that Black people arm themselves for "protection which the law refuses to give"; she herself bought a pistol after being threatened by white racists.
Wells participated in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), but later distanced herself from the group after becoming dissatisfied with its leadership made up of the small group of either white or Black members of the elite. Instead she founded the Negro Fellowship League, and later the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, which may have been the first Black women's suffrage organisation.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788/ida-b.-wells-born