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axlsalinger
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Volcanologist
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yeah of all things why would you call it that
axlsalinger
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MindzEye
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The only part of that I'll quibble with a bit is that most advanced economies who sanctioned out the ass can actually repair a lot of that infrastructure pretty quickly and the Ukrainian lesson is to not just rebuild it, but to start the process of diversifying it's function. Remember when the Ukies were supposed to freeze in the dark? They kept the big irreplaceable stuff running for just long enough to replace it's impact with 50 smaller versions of it to serve specific areas instead of one big thing serving an entire region.
The reasons the Russian system is proving to not be as durable is 1) Oil refineries kind of need to be at scale 2) They don't have the in country ability to build their own specialized parts and are sanctioned from buying those on the open market.
Also, I don't think the age of the big, slow, cheap moped drones is here to stay. Ukraine has already developed interceptor drones capable of dealing with them for 1/20th of what the mopeds cost to make. Figuring out how to track them and automate interception is achievable as well.
LeafGm
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Pretty wild how anti-American even our down-under cousins are becoming in the Trump era. Even when they’re on the opposite end of the globe from the US, and when they are typically far more right-wing than we are.
Cal Gal
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Ukraine strikes Siberia refinery as Kazakh leader tells Putin war should end
Ukraine strikes Siberia refinery as Kazakh leader tells Putin war should end
Ukrainian drones struck a Siberian oil refinery Saturday and disrupted an Urals athletics competition, as Kazakhstan's president told Russia's Vladimir Putin the Ukraine war should end during a forum ...
Pwner
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Blackheart
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Begun, the Drone Wars have.
lecoqsportif
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This kinda seemed inevitable.
Apparently there were some people on the Iranian regime who were horrified by Russia’s invasion, but if they existed they were silenced. There was money to be made.
Apparently there were some people on the Iranian regime who were horrified by Russia’s invasion, but if they existed they were silenced. There was money to be made.
Cal Gal
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russia wants to bring in 30,000 North Korean troops to conflict
Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russia wants to bring in 30,000 North Korean troops to conflict
July 25 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russia wanted to bring in 30,000 North Korean troops to take part in its more than four-year-old conflict and was
Cal Gal
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Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker
"Burn in hell," one resident commented in response to Putin's visit on a local website, according to the independent outlet People of Baikal."Will we need to bow when the tsar passes through?" another quipped.
"How scared he is of his own people," a third person noted, only to be reminded: "Well, every other person is ready to kill him."
Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker
Vladimir Putin has ventured out of his safety net for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails. Fresh off a tightly controlled pu...
thehabhater
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I would stay away from tall buildings and open windows if I were him.
MindzEye
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This is what I was saying about the age of big, slow to slowish drones not being a permanent thing
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lecoqsportif
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Geezus.