But can’t defend against soldiers with no helmets and no armor?

And yet Ukraine can’t seem to defend against them? Russian territory gains have been accelerating over the last 4 weeks. Pretty bad situation if Ukraine can’t defend against unarmored and unarmed soldiers

Perhaps you don’t understand what the word means.

The commenter said this only effects speculators.

You replied with:

No, it effects ‘ordinary’ Chinese people as many invested their life savings hoping to pay for a house or an apartment for themselves and their children.

That’s speculation. Investing with the hope of a big pay out is the definition of speculation. Yes, ordinary Chinese people can be speculators. Do you think speculators are not ordinary people?

Really? So the invasions by Napoleon, by the WW1 victors, and by the Third Reich were all just Russia being a pain?

They lost a few percentage points of total refining capacity.

The strikes Ukraine made did disrupt a large percentage of the refineries, that’s true. But the strikes didn’t do a lot of damage and the refineries were brought back onine shortly.

The total annual production of those refineries was affected. But only something like 3% - 6%.