In Onset, Mark Cinkevich and Anna Engelhardt expose Russia’s colonial energy extraction within energy infrastructures. Taking as case studies the nuclear power plant in Astravets, Belarus, the transmission lines around the Russian military base in Khmeimim, Syria, and the energy storage of a mobile Russian military unit in Ukraine, the duo analyse Russia’s dismantlement of sovereignty on an infrastructural level, while at the same time highlighting the fragility of these electric provisions. Cinkevich and Engelhardt frame their studies through the non-scalable nature of electricity, which unlike oil and gas, cannot be scaled freely, efficiently stored or transferred over large distances, as a way to visualise the boundaries of colonial power delineated by infrastructures for the generation, transmission, and storage of electricity.