Truckloads of dangerous waste (a few lorries’ worth a year per plant), which is only dangerous if you stand close to it in the next 10,000 years or so, something that can be mitigated by how one stores it. (Keeping it under water attenuates much of the radiation, for example.) Or, alternatively, it can be reprocessed to make more reactor fuel.

So it’s less than ideal, though one has to measure the quantity of waste and the risks against the certainty of health costs of fossil fuels (which are visible in cancer statistics even when everything is working perfectly).

And the US giving Ukraine a license to make Patriots could have had the effect of diverting resources from the sovereign interceptor programme to the tried and tested one, ensuring US influence and licensing revenue for years to come, not to mention reducing the risk of competition in the export market (the Ukrainian-European venture that makes whatever replaces Patriot will have ready export markets for it, in Taiwan/Japan/the Philippines and the Persian Gulf to name two regions).

What Krasnov doesn’t understand is that if the US doesn’t let Ukraine build Patriots, that won’t result in Russian air superiority over Kyiv and Trump Org deals with Moscow about Kiev real estate. It will result in Ukraine and Europe developing their own interceptors and cutting their dependence on ones the US can restrict or extract profits from.

Will this buy them any Patriot interceptors?

It’s hard to stockpile things when your warehouses keep blowing up

Slava ukraini!

He’d probably do well to stay away from upper-floor windows then

Espresso capsules may be made in Switzerland, but Nestlé is one of the more ethically problematic corporations, responsible for unethical baby-milk promotion in the developing world, aggressive water privatisation and other predatory practices. If it was a choice between them and a random American company, I’d choose the latter.

How evenly matched are the two aircraft?

Let me get this straight: Syrskyi and Fedorov didn’t get along, so Zelenskyy sacked Fedorov to keep Syrskyi, but is now about to lose him as well? That sounds less than ideal.

Are these single-use kamikaze drones or do they fire projectiles at targets?

* sad kiwi noises *

The Raspberry Pi is manufactured in the UK IIRC. I’m guessing it’s not covered by military/dual-use export restrictions, though perhaps it should be. Though presumably locking down online shops in Europe would be hard.

The Ukrainians aren’t too shabby either

It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again

If it’s from the late 1950s, it wouldn’t even have been a knockoff COBOL. Probably assembly language for a machine that used either base 3 or base minus 2. (Before Khrushchev (I think) gave the order to stop inventing their own tech and start cloning American computers, the Soviets had some seriously weird computer architectures.)

Isn’t Thai Indo-European, being related to Sanskrit?

How valuable a target is a Su-35?

Is Russia still using and maintaining GLONASS, or are they mostly piggybacking off GPS/Galileo/BeiDou?

That’s a start, I guess