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03-14-24, 12:54 PM | #2881 | |
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"Armin Papperger, CEO of the German armament concern Rheinmetall, has announced plans to open at least four plants in Ukraine. He made this statement on 14 March during the presentation of the company’s 2023 results." Rheinmetall CEO Papperger announced today that they plan to increase their production of artillery ammunition to 1.1 million shells per year by 2027. This will be possible due to the new plants already being built (Unterlüß) and planned (Ukraine and Lithuania). Furthermore, Papperger announced that Germany is likely to award Rheinmetall a new framework contract for the production and delivery of up to 2.2 million shells of artillery ammunition (10-year term). This new framework contract was most likely already announced by Minister of Defence Pistorius on the 25th of January 2024 and will also include deliveries to Ukraine. I see decisions being made maybe slow, but that is because companies like Rheinmetall need guaranties for setting up new production lines the shortage for resources for this kind of ammo is globally everybody is making products because of this war. That Russia can produce faster is because in an authoritarian system they take over the production that is not possible in democracies. Russia production is still not enough to meet its needs, the West is just starting, and we have enough money to outproduce Russia in the long term. |
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03-14-24, 01:52 PM | #2882 |
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Robert Fox, Defence Analyst at The Independent, is surprising for me on the Ukraine offensive last summer (around 8:00) |
03-14-24, 02:33 PM | #2883 | |
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Three EU countries oppose purchase of ammunition for Ukraine with frozen Russian assets
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03-14-24, 11:16 PM | #2884 | |
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Think about why that's a big deal. What makes Sweden famous? Chocolate and Banks. They USED to be neutral so their banks could do business with anyone who showed up. They could also produce arms for anyone who had the cash. THAT has changed. |
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03-15-24, 04:52 AM | #2885 | |
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In the end what its about is combat power NATO can project in the three small baltic states or Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary - and that outlook is grim. Or do you want to get rescued by one of Germany's now famous phantom brigades...? Currently the intel services of Estonia, Germany and Lithuania are briefing their governments on their conclusion that Russia is definitely preparing for attack on NATO countires - and much earlier than the US think possible, in as early as 3 years. They restructure their forces and commands, and relocate units and groups, and currently stream A-G and A-A missiles towards their border areas with Russia. Putin said loud and clearly he wants the former Warsaw Pact satellites back. Who is daredevil enough to say he doe snot mean it, after Ukraine? The man ahs waged severla wars altready, and announced his intention of genocide on Ukraine before he struck into Ukraine. All three mentioned intel agencies warn tactical nuclear attacks must be expected from day one on, if the Russians indeed attack, I suspect on airbases and CCCI centres. And now tell me, where in Europe is NATO currently prepared to repell an attack of the intensity we see in Ukraine? Nowhere. European ground forces for the most are scattered all across the continent, far away from possible frontlines, and that all members will join article 5 being called up - is questionable. Better be ready and finding that nothing happened, than getting found by war and not being ready. But ready we must be. We are far from it. And with the hesitating, slow rearmamanet NATO may run over the next years, Russia knows that NATO will only get stronger, in tiny steps, that way. So why should they delay the attack 6-10 years as the Americans think is possible? Better strike as early as you can. And they already are in war production. We have underestimated the Russians fundamentally. We better stop that. Now.
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03-15-24, 07:34 AM | #2886 | |
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Meanwhile.....does anybody know of a bookie who will give any odds on Putin failing to get re-elected?
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03-15-24, 07:43 AM | #2887 |
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https://www-t--online-de.translate.g...x_tr_hist=true
More specific info on what I assumed privately already and what made me demanding that we - all nations, not just Germany - deliver them more ammunition - but made me much more hesitent to exclusively focus on just delivering Taurus. What I did not forgive them however was the early reason given by a speaker of the chancellor's office that they do not want to give Taurus away due to Taurus being used to interrupting - slow - Russian supply lines over the Kerch bridge - that is no sane logic in this war. One thing however seems to be clear: the Russians are extremely worried about Taurus.
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03-15-24, 07:55 AM | #2888 |
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And a new low in Russia's already impressive record oin human rights violations and war crimes: they obviously force kidneapped Ukrianain teenagers into the Russian military when they turned 18, and send them to fight in Ukraine.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/14/e...ntl/index.html There are also fresh reports on widespread and conbstantly happening daily torutre of Ukrainian prisoners, every day, over months, by beating them up, and electroshocking their genitals. Genocide does include not just slitting throats and destroying culture and identity and langauge, but also annihilating individual psyches. If ever being released, these victims of wonderful Russian civilkization will wlak as living zombies amongst the living, a life-long wanrign to thiose aorudn what happens to you if you resist Russia. Same applies to systematic mass rapings. These torturings are not random or misdeeds by local commanders, they are systematic, they are ordered for much higher above in the hierarchy, they are integral part of the doctrine. They are meant as terror against the general population.
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03-15-24, 08:53 AM | #2889 | |
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Europe split clouds Macron talks with Scholz in Berlin
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03-15-24, 09:08 AM | #2890 |
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'Stalin-style purges could follow election'
An American financier who worked in Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union and author of two books on Russia says Russia could see Stalin-style purges after the election Bill Browder, who has been a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin for years, told Sky News: "At the moment Putin kills individuals, but what he hasn’t done is round up and kill large quantities of people in opposition and media. "He kills individuals to make a point, but that could change. We could see the gulags properly set up and see thousands if not tens of thousands of people dragged off from their apartments overnight the way they were under Stalin. "We could also see a massive increase in assassinations of his enemies at home and abroad." Discussing Mr Putin’s position more broadly, he said: "Basically Putin is desperate to stay in power, there is no way he can leave power without going to jail, losing his money and potentially dying." "First of all, he needs to have his dictatorship renewed for more time and once he is finished with this fake election he can carry on with his repression. "He can go on to do much worse things than he has done before, because there isn't even the international community looking over his shoulder any more." "I think we are quickly moving towards a North Korea type of situation in Russia, that's what Vladimir Putin is now." As leader of the former Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin oversaw the murders of hundreds of thousands of people during the 1930s in a campaign to consolidate his power.
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03-15-24, 12:07 PM | #2891 |
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Eh, millions. Estimations range as high as 60 millions.
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03-15-24, 01:09 PM | #2892 |
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They probably lost count eventually
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03-15-24, 01:21 PM | #2893 | |
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WARNING: LONG READ
Election booths vandalized in Russia as citizens refuse to back Putin Quote:
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03-15-24, 02:42 PM | #2894 | |
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Russia has enforced voting in occupied parts of Ukraine at gunpoint in Russia it is not different no guns, but they know what you vote if you did not vote for Putin or make the vote incorrect or do not vote you are coming automatically on the list.
Ukrainian intelligence 'hacking Russian online voting systems' Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said it is hacking online voting systems in Russia as the first day of the country's presidential election got underway on March 15. A source in the agency confirmed to the Kyiv Independent it was currently making attempts to disrupt the vote, adding: "There are no elections or democracy there anyway." https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainia...oting-systems/If it is not the Ukrainians hacking this the Russians will do it themselves.
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03-15-24, 03:11 PM | #2895 |
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It's not like they don't receive ammo at the front-They do, but it's far from enough.
Ukraine lack more than ammos. Despite this, they are giving the Russian a fight for the bucks. Markus
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