Rossticus said:

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Could this be any more Hitler-ish? Yeeeesh.

Russian militarisation in children's songs. They sing about their readiness to die for #Putin if he calls them for the last battle. Sevastopol & Crimea are ours, and we'll return Alaska too. Parents, teachers and organisers who made this scary show possible are #NotJustPutin. pic.twitter.com/5OL19cNuNl

— Not Just Putin (@NotJustPutin) March 24, 2022

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I once talked to a middle-aged man in Hungary who was explaining Russia to me. He asked, "What part of their history do the Russians feel worst about?" I thought for a second and guessed, "Stalin?" He shook his head with a frown, as though to say I still had much, much to learn. "Alaska."

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I once talked to a middle-aged man in Hungary who was explaining Russia to me. He asked, "What part of their history do the Russians feel worst about?" I thought for a second and guessed, "Stalin?" He shook his head with a frown, as though to say I still had much, much to learn. "Alaska."

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That's scary. Still commies at heart.

I think now we know some admiral general was given funds to create a better pen, pocketed most of it, said it was impossible, and delivered a pencil.

Hey that special pen/marker helped complete a circuit to allow the Apollo 11 Lunar Module to take off from the surface of the moon. A pencil might not have done that

Marines and #Azov rescued half a thousand Border Guards and several units of the National Police fighters from the port of #Mariupol that were running out of ammunition. Using APCs, Azov and the Marines broke through to the seaport, provided covering fire and took about 500

— Canadian Ukrainian Volunteer 🇺🇦🇨🇦✊🏻 (@CanadianUkrain1) April 20, 2022

Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies:

1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.

1/7

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 19, 2022

Robk said:

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Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies:

1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.

1/7

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 19, 2022

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• At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
• Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
• Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.
• Germany's defense industry leakes the list to Ukraine's ambassador.
• Scholz says that the weapons on the list don't work.
• The defense industry denies this and leakes the list to the press.
• Scholz states Ukrainians can't master the weapons in the available time.
• German defense experts tell the German press that Ukrainians can master the weapons in 2-3 weeks.
• Scholz says the weapons are needed by NATO and NATO must approve their transfer.
• NATO officials and German generals deny this.
• Scholz says no other NATO/EU ally is delivering heavy weapons to Ukraine.
• The US, UK, Australia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Romania, Netherlands, etc. publish the lists of heavy weapon they deliver to Ukraine.
• Under pressure Scholz announces 2 billion for Ukraine's military.
• German parliamentarians find out that it's really just 1 billion, which won't be available for another 2-3 months, and then Scholz can veto or delay indefinitely every item Ukraine wants to buy.
• The US, France, Poland, Romania, Japan, the UK and Italy, plus the heads of EU and NATO spend an afternoon trying to talk sense into Scholz.
• Scholz makes a statement and says Ukraine can have the 1 billion now and order whatever it wants from the list.
• Ukraine's ambassador says that Scholz removed all the items Ukraine actually wants from the list before giving it to Ukraine and what remains on the list is just a fraction of the 1 billion. Scholz isn't incompetent or mendacious... he just works for the Russians.

aggiehawg said:

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Some of the jokes I heard over there about America and Russia were eye-opening. Another one was, "When the Americans went to space, they spent millions of dollars to develop a special pen that could write in zero-gravity conditions. The Russians just used a pencil."

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And such was a point of pride? The Hubs was once allowed into the cockpit of an Antonov aircraft in the late 90s. Their gauges were still analog.

Such is the conundrum of the Russians and their technology advances and then zero advances. Very uneven in different fields.

ETA: Oh that's a joke? NM.

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The russians 'engineering pride' is mostly tied to the brilliant phd level engineers and mathematicians they produced. Everything else was sub par. Manufacturing capability, raw materials sourcing, materials research, systems level integration, and maintenance were all lacking. Everything about russian rocketry and weapons design is under heavy constraints that america doesn't think about. Like their version of the saturn 5 had like 31 rockets versus the 5 on the saturn V first stage because they did not have the manufacturing capility to make those big cones. The rocketry design itself had to be of a higher risk/reward design to maximize payload. Both of these lead to major failure points. They developed a whole new field of stainless steel research because we blocked them from getting access to nickel. American stealth on the F-117 nighthawk got its inspiration from a russian research publication on radar deflection. The phds were on their game. Nobody else was.

When my dad worked on computers his whole career he was always amazed at the brilliance of the russian phds he interacted with on chip design. They would always start with the purely mathematical perspective on how to get the cpu cycles as low as theoretically possible to solve a problem and then build a chip from there. America never really thought like that. It was always about building more horsepower at the hardware level and then making the programs as efficient as possible.

Robk said:

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Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies:

1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.

1/7

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 19, 2022

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What a loser. My German friends cannot stand the new ruling party.

Agsuffering@bulaw said:

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The Germans are a lousy bunch of free riders! They should be hit with severe consequences! Prohibit them from exporting high mark up autos for long enough to cripple their auto industry!

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Pull the US Army and AF out of Germany and open new bases in Poland. Poland's defense outlook is more aligned with the US and the Germans will actually have to spend more to defend their country without our troops doing the work for them.

benchmark said:

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Robk said:

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Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies:

1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.

1/7

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 19, 2022

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Unrolled ...

• At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
• Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
• Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.
• Germany's defense industry leakes the list to Ukraine's ambassador.
• Scholz says that the weapons on the list don't work.
• The defense industry denies this and leakes the list to the press.
• Scholz states Ukrainians can't master the weapons in the available time.
• German defense experts tell the German press that Ukrainians can master the weapons in 2-3 weeks.
• Scholz says the weapons are needed by NATO and NATO must approve their transfer.
• NATO officials and German generals deny this.
• Scholz says no other NATO/EU ally is delivering heavy weapons to Ukraine.
• The US, UK, Australia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Romania, Netherlands, etc. publish the lists of heavy weapon they deliver to Ukraine.
• Under pressure Scholz announces 2 billion for Ukraine's military.
• German parliamentarians find out that it's really just 1 billion, which won't be available for another 2-3 months, and then Scholz can veto or delay indefinitely every item Ukraine wants to buy.
• The US, France, Poland, Romania, Japan, the UK and Italy, plus the heads of EU and NATO spend an afternoon trying to talk sense into Scholz.
• Scholz makes a statement and says Ukraine can have the 1 billion now and order whatever it wants from the list.
• Ukraine's ambassador says that Scholz removed all the items Ukraine actually wants from the list before giving it to Ukraine and what remains on the list is just a fraction of the 1 billion. Scholz isn't incompetent or mendacious... he just works for the Russians.

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Man you'd really think that Germany would jump at the chance to A) Put Russians in their place & B) Be the good guys for once, but nooooo gotta be the biggest jackasses in terms of hampering the aid effort for Ukraine.

Germany only cares about Germany.

AgLA06 said:

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Germany only cares about Germany.

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Correct. And the german economy isn't as robust as one might think. They are industrious, but they have no high tech sector or fin tech either. Their economy relies on being the premium quality manufacturer for the world. The richest people in germany are either related to land ownership, traditional banking, niche manufacturing, or sitting on what was stolen during WWII. There is no huge swaths of 'new money' like America's tech and OG sector provides.

Reducing their access to gas is a huge double whammy to them. They freeze in the winter and they can't keep industry running. Everyone at the top is either directly or indirectly tied to keeping that gas flowing, and they've been benefitting from a cozy relationship with russian oil, gas, and raw materials.