As it stands, Orbán is more likely to lose the 2026 election than not.
Hopefully that gives him something to worry about other than blocking stuff for Ukraine.
Also, I hope that if the German government won’t listen to common sense and decency, they will at least listen to Rheinmetall lobbyists. There is a Rheinmetall factory in Ukraine now, isn’t it?
I think the reload mechanism would double the price.
Cheap and disposable is the name of the game.
Also, while in practice SWIFT is controlled by joint western interests, Belgium has control of it, not the US.
If the US is not of one mind about lifting that part, if it can get bogged down in Congress, it’s going nowhere, as the Belgians will def not go along with Trump.
I hope you’re right.
This could be the catalyst to the EU pulling its head out its ass vis-à-vis defence.
It’s a good question what “loss” means here. A total disorganized rout is also a total loss, even though some men might be recoverable and still in fighting shape. The hardware is cooked though. And actually, a rout usually means the Ukrainians get to capture it, so there’s your new tank.
And I wouldn’t want to be the guy trying to find where hundreds of North Koreans ended up near Kursk, with them not speaking any language anyone would understand and not knowing the area.
The Kursk front has some of the biggest single hits the Ukrainians have delivered to Russian manpower though. Remember the troop convoys where artillery hits were killing dozens to hundreds of soldiers all at once since the freshly mobilized troops didn’t know where to go and were just sitting densely packed in trucks on the road?
Soviet-style battalions are half that size though. They usually get augmented with more hardware and are then used as independent units, in what the Russians call a Battalion Tactical Group.
If they lost a battalion, that’s 500-600 people, if they lost the whole BTG, it’s 700-800.
Hungary is just at war with reality as always.
Orbán should just touch grass anyway, now that his party is polling steadily in the minority.
In my social bubble, neither really is. Honestly. Dead serious.
like thinking Tesla invented all of modern technology
You mean the Croatian scientist or the company founded by Eberhard and Tarpenning?
Oh, I love travel stories. Travel influencers make it about themselves and not the place, that’s my gripe.
I have a feeling this is simply idiotic. Travel influencers are kind of useless anyway, so automatic synthetic bullshit replacing handmade artisanal bullshit is not really the biggest loss to humanity caused by AI.
Altman used his multi-stop trip to pitch his plans to progress AI, involving Asia’s manufacturing muscle, Middle Eastern money, and U.S. regulators.
Slave labour, oil money and regulatory capture come together to form… whatever the fuck this is.
This really seems like a bad joke. They are setting the world on fire for slightly better chatbots.
Yeah, maybe, but docking can be as simple as flying into a net, no precision necessary. And if you make it cheap, you can have twice as many, and worry less about equipment losses.