And to my #NAFO fellas, i’m pretty sure #Russia’s #trollfactory industry is basically jizzing their pants over what they can do with OpenAI’s services, jailbroken or not.
Putler will pay them top dollar, not rubles, if they can poison the well of US and European societies.
They don’t even need propaganda, all they need is: ”it’ll cost too much”, ”russia is too strong”, ”it’s the global elite”, ”it’s the left” or ”it’s the jews”.
That’s all it takes if you can compensate for it in volume.
#Russia is now at peak #military-industrial capacity, practically zero unemployment, pay hikes because not enough labour force to man the weapons factories. 35% of government spending go to military. 7.1% of GDP. All of it to go up in smoke in #Ukraine
However, if we look at the numbers, this output only matches current EU military spending. Countries which are on avg spending less than 2% on it currently.
Tell me again how Ukraine supported only by Europe can’t possibly win?
@stevehayes The most significant bottleneck has been 155mm cannon shells and anti-aircraft missile supplies.
Ukraine has been outgunned 5-to-1 where as by manpower it is outnumbered perhaps a little less than 2-to-1. Ukraine has been expanding the drafting age also
With that in mind, it would be wrong to say that in this case it is "as much", or at least has been
Of course, in the long run EU/NATO shouldo be looking into sending at least training facilities & air support. France good on that
@stevehayes But the rhetoric is changing. Not wanting to get involved is losing ground.
An increasing number of people are wrapping their heads around the problem of letting Russia have even the slightest victory, and what it means for the future security of Europe.
Putin clearly has lost his marbles and there is no hope in unconvincing him he's the emperor and pope of fourth Rome.
@fnord99 There there my little #vatnik, RU has a history of failing economically when it puts all it’s efforts on weapon production, and that can happen now.
It’s not false RU currently has headway in production, but their military gains even with 5 times advantage have been meager.
The west needs to help Ukraine weather the storm of this summer & winter and keep ramping up production.
Europe does not want an imperial Russia. We will fight it, with or without you.
@fnord99 Eventually, Russia’s economy will not be able to compete. It’s just too badly managed and too corrupt. For the coming 18 months though, it will likely be stable.
So if that’s too long for you and you’d rather be afraid of big bad russia, go ahead, keep licking boots there. Your choice.
@anttipeltola Yes it’s easy for an autocratic country that keeps most of the population poor enough to not be able to afford indoor toilets to do that.
It’s especially easy for countries like that to ramp up production quickly, much faster than market economies of welfare states.
This is not news. This is basic knowledge of facts.
Also. Basic knowledge of history shows that autocratic states eventually lose to the higher industrial output of market economies once they catch up.
"What happens if the EU does not recognize Vladimir Putin?
Calls are growing for the EU not to recognize Vladimir Putin as Russia's elected president. But cutting off communications entirely is a bad idea in the long term, experts warn."
Edelleen on kyllä aika lähellä 100% mahikset, että jos vanhempaa väkeä on paikalla ja tulet sähköautolla, niin joku sieltä avaa suunsa että: "Tiedätkö että toi sun #sahkoauto sitä ja tätä?"
Ja siitä keskustelusta ei pääse eroon ennenkuin ne on todistaneet että niiden 6000 romu on ekologisempi kuin mun 60000 sähkövatkain. Ihan sama mitä sanoo "faktoja" vastaan jotka on yleensä väärin.
Oon vaan ruvennu sanoo että: "Inhoan kovia ääniä ja tää on hiljainen", että pääsee vaihtaa aihetta.
I am in a total state about the state of the world. This bloody Eurovision weekend- Israel getting full points in the popular vote from UK, Germany and many more, right whilst it is launching the worst yet on Rafah - is doing my head in. Reading this timeline - Netanyahu’s, Cameron’s awful statements- is doing my head in. Most of all, the awful suffering in #Gaza, and the majority of nice liberal centrists really not caring - it is unbearable.
@pvonhellermannn They won the popularity contest. Eurovision is always a sign of the times. Political and otherwise.
Israel just does a great job at sectoring it’s output. The nice intellectuals are your friends, representing in english. While the toxic message that gets spread by their far right is entirely in Hebrew.
UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.
The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.
People need to stop giving the far-right crooks ot Netanyahu’s army a free pass to use Palestinian children for target practice and decapitate enemy combatants for shits & giggles.
And this happens because ”the people I know from Israel are such nice people”.
That’s what the bad people are counting on. Using the nice people as shields to get their killing streak on. 😔