My guess: get Le Pen and AfD into power in France and Germany and then have the two largest powers in the EU/NATO switch sides (well, officially become “neutral” “pacifists” aghast at the senseless loss of life, but cut off both military aid to Ukraine and enforcement of sanctions against Russia, including from their own arms suppliers), and then hope that that’s enough.
Freedom of the press depends on owning a press. And in the US, fashy oligarchs have been on a buying spree, consolidating their grip on the media.
Russia’s alliance with Iran would make this somewhat awkward.
That’ll buy some well-connected silovik a truly impressive yacht.
Woodchippers and black bin bags are next
You love to hear it.
They’re also potentially in sight of a ⅔ supermajority, which would allow them to overturn Orban’s laws.
you can add Orban and Erdogan to that list
I hope Ukraine lets NATO join
And these Polish patriots would rather have a border with Russia?
Quite careless of them
The heart-shaped targeting reticule is a nice touch
Are there reasons drone feeds are unencrypted? Would encryption add unacceptable cost/battery drain/latency?
* Viipuri, temporarily occupied Karelia
The stupid… it burns
A rare sighting of the legendary dildo of consequences, which is said to never arrive lubricated
Ukraine really needs the ability of building its own Patriot-equivalent interceptors.
I’m guessing the silicon was fabbed in Taiwan/China/South Korea and shipped to Poland for final assembly. If they wanted to optimise for labour costs, they could have had the boards soldered in the Far East and merely placed in the plastic enclosures by workers on Polish wages and still qualify as “assembled and tested in Poland”