Nix Panicus posted:

When they say $500 each are they averaging the cost of the central monitoring system out over each unit, or did they use $500 cell phones and the bank of computers processing everything is an expense they just don't talk about?

supersnowman posted:

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/92722

Let's see if it turns out to be true and the future consequence.

mawarannahr posted:

why are people so mad about potential Russian access to Starlink on the frontie? the internet is a human right.

VoicesCanBe posted:

There aren't that many men between the ages of 18-25 to begin with. As long as the mobilization is "voluntary" (as in the state doesn't legally enforce it), I'm not sure how many will respond to the summons for mobilization.

VoicesCanBe posted:

Didn't Ukraine use to have a massive industrial base, wonder what happened to that.

Ardennes posted:

Well the question becomes the nature of "basic military training" and if it mandatory; there was talk of making it so and therefore that person would then theoretically be possible to draft. There has been confusion this entire war because there are a bunch of different levels of mobilization including anything from a semi-voluntary draft of recent reservists (basically the inactive reserve) to chasing gardeners down the street.

RedSky posted:

Enjoy is now trying to suck up to us.

Enjoy posted:

I was making a comparison between posters like Regarde Aduck who believe Ukraine is a fake country, and Hitler, who said the same thing about the Czechs and Poles

samogonka posted:

Danilov, secretary of the defense council, got fired today after calling Chinese diplomat Li Hui "a dick" live on TV the other week


well done on pissing off the only people who can help you in a meaningful way lol

Homeless Friend posted:

how much does this guy know about hitler...

Enjoy posted:

I dated Hitler in high school

yunichel posted:

What's wrong with that? He just called the Chinese diplomat by his last name

Puppy Burner posted:

Believing in factual reality makes liberals look like the nazis they are so we choose to believe in movies and tv instead. They don't murder 10% of Koreans in MASH and isn't that much happier to believe?

Tankbuster posted:

https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1723824856788087295
I thought the italians were unserious because their propaganda pictures were chibi drawings of colonial misadventures.

Enjoy posted:

I dated Hitler in high school

yunichel posted:

What's wrong with that? He just called the Chinese diplomat by his last name

Homeless Friend posted:

hitler dating sims... i think we're just about to make a lot of money on steam

January 6 Survivor posted:

my friend the market is already oversaturated

January 6 Survivor posted:

my friend the market is already oversaturated

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

I remember disabling the “no horny” filter on Steam briefly and the first game that popped up was Sex With Hitler.

Lostconfused posted:

_{(from t.me/rezident_ua/22189, via tgsa)}

genericnick posted:

Skimmed over one of the other threads and found something great
https://twitter.com/SimonOstrovsky/status/1772623693501419567

January 6 Survivor posted:

my friend the market is already oversaturated

quote:

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ammunition can help turn the tide.

The effort ramped up sharply over the past year as the U.S. and Europe strained to deliver weapons and other aid to Ukraine, which is up against a much bigger Russian military backed by a thriving domestic defense industry.

The Ukrainian government budgeted nearly $1.4 billion in 2024 to buy and develop weapons at home — 20 times more than before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

And in another major shift, a huge portion of weapons are now being bought from privately owned factories. They are sprouting up across the country and rapidly taking over an industry that had been dominated by state-owned companies.

[....]

Yet like many aspects of Ukraine’s war apparatus, its defense sector has been constrained by a lack of money and manpower – and, according to executives and generals, too much government red tape. A more robust private sector could help root out inefficiencies and enable factories to churn out weapons and ammunition even faster.

[....]

Kuzmin, the owner of the mortar factory, fled the southern city of Melitopol in 2022 after Russia invaded and seized his factory that mostly made spare parts for farm equipment. He had begun developing a prototype for mortar shells shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, when it illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula.

Kuzmin took over a sprawling warehouse in western Ukraine last winter. His long-term goals include boosting production to 100,000 shells per month and developing engines and explosives for drones.

He is just one of many entrepreneurs transforming Ukraine’s weapons industry, which was dominated by state-owned enterprises after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Today, about 80 percent of the defense industry is in private hands — a mirror image of where things stood a year ago and a stark contrast with Russia’s state-controlled defense industry.

Each newly made projectile is wrapped in craft paper and carefully packed into wooden crates to be shipped to Romania or Bulgaria, where are loaded with explosives. Several weeks later, they’re shipped back and sent to the front.

[....]

As impressive as Ukraine’s defense sector transformation has been, the country stands no chance of defeating Russia without massive support from the West, said Trevor Taylor, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank....

January 6 Survivor posted:

my friend the market is already oversaturated

antipattern posted:

Is there a similar selection of Putin games? Asking for a friend.

January 6 Survivor posted:

my friend the market is already oversaturated

supersnowman posted:

Al! posted:

hitler fucks. putin kills