[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There is obviously no infrastructure, no buildings and no cellars to hide in. If you try to hold it drones will go Liam Neeson on you.

Also Ukrainians would have to cross Dnipro first.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Well, since we were not able to get our production up sufficiently in the 3 years(or the 8 before that) we have to pay now. The question is whether our governments have a plan how to replace these shipments with our production. Even if the war in Ukraine ends it might be soon needed in Caucasus, Moldova or elsewhere.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can't do everything he wishes.

    Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of "undesirables" before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can't use conscripts in Ukraine.

    It shouldn't be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.

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