Ukraine

[Meconium]

France, Czech Republic. Good job.

[Bunion 2020]

Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea

Hopefully they were able to get a corporate deal on the service packages.

[LongShortLong]

Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea

--- Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe

Great work! Too bad that information is leaking.

[Meconium]

America's ball sack is also leaking.

[altacoup]

It’s only the Magatards ball sack that is leaking.

[altacoup]

Double post

[Meconium]

10 Russian Tu-95Ms over the Caspian sea righ

[Meconium]

Now, how does Ukraine get rid of that problem?

[Meconium]

Azerbaijan?

[Meconium]

Georgia?

[Meconium]

Assuming F16 would not venture within range of Tu-95Ms over the Caspian sea.

[Toadman]

I'm just fascinated that a fighter jet getting hit by a SAM ends up in a flat spin.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1773389109295231487

[uglymoney]

Fascinating footage of what looks like an incoming French AASM to a Russian position. Rocket assisted glide bomb. Yikes!

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/...516990222?s=19

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arme...-Sol_Modulaire

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[rod9301]

American and European companies left Russia, either pressured by their governments, or to show virtue.

Did it hurt Russia?

For example, an accounting firm closed its offices in Russia. All their employees started a new firm, doing the same work.
So the accounting firm lost the business.

Starbucks left, a Russian took over the stores, opened with a new name, almost the same menu. Starbucks lost.

Mercedes Benz decided not to sell cars in Russia. Somehow though, their sales to Kazakhstan went through the roof. I would guess most of them go to Russia.

EU decided not to buy Russian oil. Russia sells oil to India, who resells it to EU.
Difference is that EU pays more for the oil because it's shipped around the world.

Russian car imports from EU are way down, but china is selling a lot of cars there. Same with semiconductors, most are bought from China now, so us and EU companies lost the business.

I'll not surprised though, a lot of things governments do have unintended consequences, most of them bad.

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[jono]

Hot tip: buy rope now so you can cash in when they start hanging capitalists.

[Harry]

I'll not surprised though, a lot of things governments do have unintended consequences, most of them bad.

First thing I did this morning was get up, waddle into the bathroom, pee, and flush. My pee went into some government-owned pipes to a government-owned sanitation works so that my pee does not harm the environment.

Then I waddled into the kitchen to make coffee. Turned on the water faucet and clean water came from government-owned pipes supplying water that was cleaned at a government-owned water plant.

I turned on my tablet to check my email and log onto TGR. My tablet was fully charged due to electric wires that run along an easement at the side of the road. An easement were the government forcibly took privately-owned land and gave it to a private company, transporting electricity generated from a nuclear plant that operates thanks to technology developed by the government.

After my coffee, I hopped in my car and drove on a government-owned road to the gym. Did cardio on the indoor track while my fitness app used government-owned satellites to monitor my progress.

That’s my day so far as of 9:17am today. I’ve interacted with the government at least 20 times so far today, and I have only been awake an hour. Each of my interactions with the government today has been positive and made my life better.

Tell me again how most things the government does are bad ?


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[skaredshtles]

[summit]

Fighting amongst ourselves is what the Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and NK info-ops against the West have been working hard on for over a decade (and really much longer). They have been extraordinarily successful as our vision has become insular and driven by the latest tweet and a focus on legitimate domestic problems has allowed our enemies to maneuver to dominate first the edges of the free world, and then the sphere of Allies that have allowed our culture to progress to the point where we can care and correct domestic injustice. Now we have to rise above domestic tribalism and attend to existential matters. We must rally first around our flag, then around our closest allies, then our treaty partners, and then the free world.

Our shortsighted culture must look up from tomorrow and look at next decade. Dictators can do that because they assume they will be around then. We can too, if we demand it of ourselves and our leaders. The fate of the free world is at a balance point. We can push the scales and hold the line, or we can begin an unstoppable slide into decades of darkness, turmoil, and war.

Realize that the differences at home are nowhere near the differences abroad. Spend five minutes looking at the fates of dominated nations and know what I mean. There is a cost to stand, but the cost of falling is much higher and more permanent. So fuck your domestic tribal identities that our foreign enemies demand we focus on. Join hands, stand for freedom, liberty, and the rule of law.

Fuck Putin and Fuck Xi

Reposting this from Feb 22

[Bunion 2020]

^^^ Well, it's not like you were wrong then either.

Originally Posted by rod9301 View Post
I'll not surprised though, a lot of things governments do have unintended consequences, most of them bad.

@Rod, as much as I hate this cliche, you are very welcome to go the fuck back to wherever you were born. Yeah the Gubamint gets some things wrong, no shit.

[PNWbrit]

Oh poor old Starbucks.

There were 140 stores in Russia. That's only 23 more than in the city of Phoenix.

[subtle plague]

Oh poor old Starbucks.

There were 140 stores in Russia. That's only 23 more than in the city of Phoenix.

So we should give phoenix to Russia in order to maximize rods Investments?

[MultiVerse]

"Sanctions don't work" is an established genre for the waifs in underwear crowd. Tucker goes to grocery store showing shelves stocked with Russian substitutes for Western goods feeds into the idea Russia is prospering under sanctions. There are even Western YouTube-ers who moved to Russia because they like Vladimir Putin's anti-woke anti-LGTBQ policies.

It's a natural fit for racists and bigots. The problem with their thinking is assuming a repressive state controlled fascist economy is capable of producing perfect substitutes at less cost than Western goods. Rod et al. start by assuming Russian or Chinese products are just as good as Western products. Then they assume away the real costs of switching away from or smuggling in contraband goods.

In fact it's like dumping sand in the gears of an economy. Smuggling raises the costs of both imports and exports. It raises the cost of capital. It increases shipping and handling costs. The videos show the goods but not the costs. Rod & Tucker are apparently unaware of these costs let alone the fact China and India have limited Russia's ability to make payments in rubles.

For example in the video below, not worth watching, Canadian farmer with nine kids flees the West for "traditional values" Russia only to discover Chinese tractors are junk and that he either can't get parts for superior Western made tractors and implements or parts are much more expensive than in the West. Even though this genre of videos tries to argue "sanctions don't work," they show the exact opposite.

Instead of getting the first or second best option they're forced to settle for the third, fourth, fifth, options. Instead of benefiting from higher productivity and economic growth in an open economy, they're experiencing the inefficiencies and limited access to new technologies that lower standards of living and limit long-term development. Only the incredibly naive would argue a regression to a Soviet style war economy is good for Russia.

[ötzi]

Clifs notes on the vid ^^ por favor?

[MultiVerse]

Bigot moves to Russia from Canada. Posts video attempting to show "Sanctions don't work." Instead, shows inferior Chinese products as well as how much more expensive superior Western products are now in Russia.

[JimmyCarter]

Blinken says Ukraine to join NATO

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...er-2024-04-04/