B-1 83 said:
When you're depending on North Korean hardware and ammo to shore up your arsenal, you aren't doing well.
Russia is running out of labor; not sure they will be able to make anything in quantities if they keep sending folks into the meatgrinder. It's all big faade that is crumbling under the weight of a failed invasion.ABATTBQ11 said:B-1 83 said:
When you're depending on North Korean hardware and ammo to shore up your arsenal, you aren't doing well.
Yeah we keep hearing about the millions of rounds Russia is making and how we can't compare, yet they're buying up best Korea's stock.
Makes total sense.
As someone on the supply chain side of the MIC, we've been onboarding new suppliers for the past couple years, and have a ton of internal capacity as well.Rossticus said:
If America is forced to really spin up the MIC to a full wartime footing then that could actually backfire on Russia as well.
Naveronski said:As someone on the supply chain side of the MIC, we've been onboarding new suppliers for the past couple years, and have a ton of internal capacity as well.Rossticus said:
If America is forced to really spin up the MIC to a full wartime footing then that could actually backfire on Russia as well.
I'd absolutely love to see the quantities we could produce with unlimited money.
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Two U.S. officials, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly about the discussions, maintained that allowing Ukraine to hit inside Russia in response to counterfire from anywhere across the border is not a shift in policy since the Kharkiv decision was made. Originally, the move was characterized only in the context of the ongoing Kharkiv assault, but that did not exclude the possibility of hitting back against other cross-border attacks, said one of the officials.
Still, Sullivan's language is markedly different from what U.S. officials said in May when the new policy was detailed. At the time a senior U.S. official said: "The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S. weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkiv so Ukraine can hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them."
AgLA06 said:
I believe the same is happening in parts of Africa.
Explosions are reported in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea.
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 23, 2024
Balaklava, air defense is active. pic.twitter.com/pue6z3Ck5H
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 23, 2024
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Kim similarly is facing increasing economic sanctions and isolation because of his nuclear ambitions. He needs food, fuel, cash and weapons technology all of which Russia can provide.
Although it is unclear what North Korea has received in return so far, there are indications that Russian technology was used in North Korea's recent efforts to launch a spy satellite into space, South Korean parliamentary intelligence committee member Yoo Sang-bum told reporters last year, citing the nation's intelligence agency.
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Leading AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini are prepared to regurgitate Russian misinformation, says NewsGuard.
The news monitoring service found that, 32% of the time, they spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow.
The research involved testing ten of the leading AI chatbotsOpenAI's ChatGPT-4, You.com's Smart Assistant, xAI's Grok, Inflection's Pi, Mistral's le Chat, Microsoft's Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and Perplexity's answer engine.
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John Mark Dougan is an increasingly prominent figure in a burgeoning movement of conspiracy theorists who are trying to put meat on the bone of the baseless idea that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was done, at least in part, to destroy U.S-funded biolabs developing deadly pathogens to unleash on the Russian people.
This evening, Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Russian NIP-16 space tracking and communication center in Vitino, Crimea with multiple MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 23, 2024
Multiple areas of the facility are burning. pic.twitter.com/MOc8SHV9sG
AgLA06 said:
That's a shame
US policy continues to prohibit Ukrainian forces from striking legitimate military targets in Russian territory within range of Ukrainian HIMARS. (1/3) https://t.co/zspyTkSLeL pic.twitter.com/sno4XPHrNU
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) June 23, 2024
lb3 said:
I can't figure out what value that site has. Are they using it to command Russia's spy satellites?
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Without these assets Russia's space program could only communicate with spacecraft as they pass over Russian territory. The only other option was to have NASA patch them into the sprawling U.S. satellite-based tracking and communications network.
But the annexation of Crimea last year has given Russia an opportunity to boost its ability to communicate with its spacecraft and military satellites, and the Defense Ministry has been working to reactivate the tracking and control stations on the peninsula.
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Soviet space officials built a tracking and control facility for these missions on the Crimean Peninsula, where the clear weather and lack of major infrastructure made for less radio interference and better reception.
From an earlier link. "Vladimir Putin saw Crimea, linked to the Russian mainland by the Kerch Bridge since 2018, as an unsinkable aircraft-carrier. Its logistics hubs, air bases and the Black Sea Fleet, operating out of Sevastopol, could be used to dominate the south of Ukraine, close off its vital grain exports, and provide a steady flow of men and materiel to push Ukraine out of areas to the north. Mr Putin has invested huge sums in military infrastructure in Crimea, all of it now under threat."Ulysses90 said:
Is the significance of the Crimea location purely it's southern latitude?
