West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 12 Oct 26

All hell is breaking loose as Ukraine's President Zelensky has successfully hit the motherlode.

He has hit not one, not two, but three Yandex data centers throughout Russia, the most recent one in the city of Vladimir.

And Yandex is one of the biggest tech companies.

It's like the Google of Russia.

And when you take Yandex offline, so many other ancillary services that are relied on by Russians are now shut off.

And also notable, we've seen a massive decline in bot traffic, those Russian bots that infiltrate all of the American, European, and international social media platforms, right? We've seen a dramatic decline since the Yandex facilities have been hit.

We'll talk a little bit about that in a moment as well.

But as you probably recall by now, yesterday morning, Donald Trump announced that there was an energy ceasefire between Zelensky and Putin.

Donald Trump lied and claimed he spoke with Zelensky and Putin, and they agreed to an energy ceasefire.

Zelensky said, "I've never spoken to him about that.

That's news to me, but we welcome it.

We in Ukraine will stop striking Russian refineries if Russia stops striking the power grid here in Ukraine." Ukraine doesn't have pretty much any refineries, but they have all of these power grids that Russia is striking, so it doesn't make sense to do a refinery for refinery ceasefire.

It makes sense that Russia doesn't strike the energy in Ukraine.

Ukraine doesn't strike the refineries in Russia.

Then Putin and the Duma in Russia said, "We never heard about this either.

Maybe this is just some Trump market manipulation play." Later, US officials leaked to Barak Ravid over at Axios that it's a refinery for refinery deal, not an energy, uh, ceasefire, to which again, Zelensky's like, "We're agreeable to an energy ceasefire.

We just never heard about it.

I think Trump's making it up." And to which Putin responded by striking a massive energy facility in Kharkiv.

And so yesterday, we saw the TPP-5 in Kharkiv.

That's a major combined heat and power plant near the Podvorki village on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

This is critical to powering Ukraine's, like, second-largest city, and Russian drones attacked it over and over again right after Donald Trump announced the energy ceasefire, making it very clear that Russia was not agreeable to it.

And Zelensky said, "I'll agree to it, but it's gotta be energy-wide, and let's make it clear that Putin agrees to it as well." Donald Trump then started posting photos of Mike Tyson and Kid Rock, and, you know, Trump's a freaking lunatic.

I mean, he's a deranged sex predator, sicko lunatic, right? And so, you know, he starts doing whatever the hell he's doing, and Zelensky's like, "Bet.

Okay.

Okay.

All hell is breaking loose as Ukraine's President Zelensky has successfully hit the motherlode.

He has hit not one, not two, but three Yandex data centers throughout Russia, the most recent one in the city of Vladimir.

And Yandex is one of the biggest tech companies.

It's like the Google of Russia.

And when you take Yandex offline, so many other ancillary services that are relied on by Russians are now shut off.

And also notable, we've seen a massive decline in bot traffic, those Russian bots that infiltrate all of the American, European, and international social media platforms, right? We've seen a dramatic decline since the Yandex facilities have been hit.

We'll talk a little bit about that in a moment as well.

But as you probably recall by now, yesterday morning, Donald Trump announced that there was an energy ceasefire between Zelensky and Putin.

Donald Trump lied and claimed he spoke with Zelensky and Putin, and they agreed to an energy ceasefire.

Zelensky said, "I've never spoken to him about that.

That's news to me, but we welcome it.

We in Ukraine will stop striking Russian refineries if Russia stops striking the power grid here in Ukraine." Ukraine doesn't have pretty much any refineries, but they have all of these power grids that Russia is striking, so it doesn't make sense to do a refinery for refinery ceasefire.

It makes sense that Russia doesn't strike the energy in Ukraine.

Ukraine doesn't strike the refineries in Russia.

Then Putin and the Duma in Russia said, "We never heard about this either.

Maybe this is just some Trump market manipulation play." Later, US officials leaked to Barak Ravid over at Axios that it's a refinery for refinery deal, not an energy, uh, ceasefire, to which again, Zelensky's like, "We're agreeable to an energy ceasefire.

We just never heard about it.

I think Trump's making it up." And to which Putin responded by striking a massive energy facility in Kharkiv.

And so yesterday, we saw the TPP-5 in Kharkiv.

That's a major combined heat and power plant near the Podvorki village on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

This is critical to powering Ukraine's, like, second-largest city, and Russian drones attacked it over and over again right after Donald Trump announced the energy ceasefire, making it very clear that Russia was not agreeable to it.

And Zelensky said, "I'll agree to it, but it's gotta be energy-wide, and let's make it clear that Putin agrees to it as well." Donald Trump then started posting photos of Mike Tyson and Kid Rock, and, you know, Trump's a freaking lunatic.

I mean, he's a deranged sex predator, sicko lunatic, right? And so, you know, he starts doing whatever the hell he's doing, and Zelensky's like, "Bet.

Okay.

Okay.