DIY-HP-LED
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Xi will be doing an extensive audit of his military after this, just to make sure, they had better have their ducks lined up. Xi was trained as an engineer and thinks like one, when he's not being an asshole.
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printer
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Putin should ask the Americans how his army is doing, to get an accurate account.
BudmanTX
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and you can't forget Nato.....
cannabineer
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DIY-HP-LED
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It probably exists for small arms on the dark web, or at least the German sites!
Kerowacked
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Same as the ukrainians most likely
In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military (Published 2018)
A surge in spending on the armed forces has opened new avenues for the graft and cronyism that many see as Ukraine’s most dangerous enemy.
DIY-HP-LED
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Older publication, it was more true in the past than the present, it's what Zelenskiy and his party were elected to fight and one way was to get ready for EU membership and let the process help to clean it up. No society is perfect, Canada or the USA, we had corruption and were functioning liberal democracies, not a perfect ones. However it is possible to get better and change things in a liberal democracy by electing good people and not crooks, because ya hate brown folks and elect Madison Cawthorn to trigger them thar libs. Not when ya fuck yourself and everybody else over healthcare and education, because the brown folks might get some too and ya would literally die, than let them get some. That tends to fuck up liberal democracies and create crooks who blow the dog whistle the loudest to get elected and don't do much else. Except take money from lobbyists and whoever else will grease their palms, including Russians.Same as the ukrainians most likely
In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military (Published 2018)
A surge in spending on the armed forces has opened new avenues for the graft and cronyism that many see as Ukraine’s most dangerous enemy.www.nytimes.com
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Kerowacked
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A noble cause to end hundreds of years of corruption. Ukraine has another dozen or so political parties, each with their own militias. I get that nato is fighting the spread of communism but besides the big Z who else are they arming and why was ukraine so unprepared? I’m all for high ideals but this area has been a boiling pot since the charge of the light brigade.
injinji
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It would be like the Marines putting a Marine Corps patch on their uniforms. SOP.
DIY-HP-LED
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Well they seems to have done better with civil society and corruption than Vlad, the people feel it's worth fighting and dying for and are all in, including most of the crooks, who aren't psychos. It's a free country, a liberal democracy with freedom of speech and action and with freedom comes it's abuse and one of those abuses is corruption. Every European parliamentary democracy has many parties and coalition governments, it's the norm in such a system.
Kerowacked
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Was watching an interview on the streets of Lviv, young people sitting at cafes when the air raid siren goes off and people just keep walking around like its just another air raid siren. What surprised me was not one was armed, just trying to finish the last few miles to poland.
DIY-HP-LED
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People under 20 in Russia grew up with fast food and a western lifestyle, though a poor one. Almost all the groceries in the stores are imported from Europe and they make little at home while depending on oil money like the Saudi's. The nation's capital has been stolen for decades and hidden abroad or used to by luxury items as the spoils of the old soviet union were divided up among the connected and corrupt. Small and medium businesses were stifled and successful ones were stolen by the connected.
cannabineer
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I don’t think there are many gun shops in Ukraine.
DIY-HP-LED
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They drove the Russians back beyond artillery range of the city and only long range rockets can hit it now. They are getting some much needed R&R, unlike the Russians the Ukrainians rotate their troops out of the line for leave regularly. Most of the young people probably have guns and uniforms, but on your day off you sure as shit don't want to carry one and might like to wear sneakers if you can.
injinji
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Until the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, Russia sold gas to one man in Ukraine at half price. He then sold it at normal price and used most of the slush for bribes. Russia would tell him who and how much, and he would deliver the money. So corruption is embedded to a deep level. It's going to take a while to root it all out. But let's not pretend not to know the root of it.Same as the ukrainians most likely
In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military (Published 2018)
A surge in spending on the armed forces has opened new avenues for the graft and cronyism that many see as Ukraine’s most dangerous enemy.
It was after a pro Russian government was over turned in 2014 that poot-poot invaded the first time.
Revolution of Dignity - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
DIY-HP-LED
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They have a big gun culture and sell them in the west of the country. The government only distributes arms to organized people closer to the Russians and will want them back for local armories.
cannabineer
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Bad call by me.
Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms
Threat of invasion, and draft law giving Ukrainians permission to carry firearms, leads to long queues inside weapons stores
www.google.com
injinji
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Russia is not a communist country. Hasn't been for a long time. NATO is trying to keep a hot war from spreading to other parts of Europe.
Ukraine unprepared? All the pros said they would last four days if they were very lucky. Now over a month later, they have fought Russia to a standstill in the north. They may still lose part of their country, but poot-poot lost this war weeks ago. Everyone sees how weak he is. Now several more countries are wanting to join NATO that had been sitting on the fence, so he's going to get even weaker.
Kerowacked
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You could be right but Lviv is a few miles from Poland, a quick run in sneakers.