The Dupes of War

Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates Slovakia's populist Prime Minister and pro-Trump ally Robert Fico has drawn an unexpectedly hard line in his country's ongoing energy showdown with Ukraine: restore Russian oil flows, or else a key emergency electricity lifeline for Ukraine gets pulled. In a weekend post on X, Fico warned that unless Ukraine resumes pumping Russian crude to Slovakia by Monday, Bratislava will cut off its emergency power exports. This is an immense threat given current frigid subzero temperatures in war-ravaged Ukraine. "If...

America's Largest Wind Farm To Begin Operations This Month Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The SunZia Wind Project, the largest wind farm in the United States, is scheduled to kick off operations this month, roughly three years after construction activities began on the project, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a June 12 statement. “The wind farm, located in New Mexico, has a total net summer generating capacity of 3,650 megawatts (MW) and is composed of 916 wind turbines,” the EIA said. “SunZia’s capacity is more than three times...

Russian missiles pounded areas across Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 10 civilians, including three children, according to local Ukrainian officials, strikes that came a day after Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia killed three civilians. According to The Associated Press, Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the military administration in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, said six people […]