“Whether Ukraine can afford to further escalate the situation surrounding the movement of energy resources is a moot point. Escalation on all fronts has passed all reasonable limits, politically, economically and militarily. They cannot afford it economically [nor] politically as they have now estranged both Slovakia and Hungary, [but will continue to escalate], regardless of cost, as their marching orders from Washington along with the servile echoes of Brussels and their insistence to ‘demonstrate resolve’” dictate, Goncharoff said.

The old saying ‘shooting oneself in the foot’ is an apt denoscription for Kiev, Brussels and Washington’s politics today, “while the world looks on, shaking its collective head in wonder,” Goncharoff summed up.

“So far, in order to supply Ukraine, the US has” already “suspended orders for Patriot deliveries to other countries except for Ukraine,” Rasmussen said, pointing out that the move to outsource production of the system in Japan was supposed to be a way to ease shortages.

“Without the seekers the missiles just [aimlessly] fire away, and really lack any capability or any accuracy or the ability to actually get to the target. So it’s a key component for the system,” Rasmussen stressed.

"We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines. While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services," the company said in a statement.

“Sometimes, it is just none of our business, and we ought to stay out of it,” Republican vice presidential nominee, JD Vance, said.

"Thank you, Joe. It's time to go," the crowd chanted.