• It's A Faaaahhkeah!@lemmus.org
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    I don’t know how any country can justify their military budget when you can supply your entire army with a trip to Walmart.

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        You just don’t have any idea the scale of money involved when entire nations fight each other.

        that’s not exactly pocket change

        A country’s budget is more money than you can keep in your pockets. Who knew?

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    By now I am convinced either McGyver was of ukranian heritage, or Ukrainian TV programs for kids is entirely reruns of McGyver. One or the other. Amazing.

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    it’s pretty amazing that cell towers haven’t been targeted by either side

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      i remember something about the russians targeting them in the first few weeks.

      it turned out that their own encrypted comunication channels relied on the gsm network,
      and they had to fallback to unencrypted radios.

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        Sounds like average corruption-caused incompetence. Wich sounds legit.

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        Their goal is annexation as well, meaning that Russia wants to keep as much infrastructure intact as they can.

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          The goal was Putin staying in power and “dropping concrete slab on enitre nation”.

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      It also turns out that small metal poles are a lot harder to functionally kill compared to, say, an airplane or human

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      Putin did target power and communications infrastructure including cell towers.