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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (11 children)

In the case of shells, the problem isn’t money, it’s lack of production capacity. Even the mighty USA, owner of the largest military-industrial complex in the world, can only produce 28,000 rounds of 155mm per month – less than 10pc of what Ukraine needs – and this with its factories on 24-hour operation.

Maybe libs should read this.

Who am I kidding, they'll still call anything that says the west isn't the best Russian propaganda or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

amazing how all the mainstream western media is full of Russian propaganda all of a sudden :)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The welfare-addicted West

The poor are strangers even in their own country

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

Always were.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

That's certainly a take

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

a right removed if I've ever seen one

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Funny, I know some folks who legit think that

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean the EU is pretty straightforward about their members having to do austerity policies the next years. I think Belgium has to cut like 30+ billion euro. Our public systems are already falling apart due to lack of funds. I expect a mass call to privatisation across the entire EU in the coming years. US 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's right, Europeans will finally get to enjoy the same kinds of freedoms US workers have been enjoying.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Luckily unions are still a thing

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Once upon a time we had unions here too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Indeed, people are going to be rediscovering the reasons workers need collective bargaining in a hurry.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I dunno we must not act helpless. Our unions have over 3 million members. That's over 60% of all working people. They can really organize a lot of people in a short time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not suggesting acting helpless. But if they can breakup the benefits and gains the unions won in past victories while the unions exist, then it does suggest that either they can break the unions themselves or they can render them so weak that it won't even matter if they exist.

That does mean people need to organize and take action, but the best moment to do that for non-revolutionary unions is probably before the gains are lost.

Otherwise, European unions can end up in a similar situation to unions in the US.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How much more you reckon before we finally accept we need to divest from the yanks?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

European countries don't really get to choose. It's a blood pact they signed when they chose to be American proxies against the barbaric asiatics rather seeking peaceful coexistence and redevlopment after WW2.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Read the headline as "warfare addicted" and thought "hey that's unusually honest"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Haha remember when you had to go to niche fascist websites to read about how The West has fallen into decadence and the underclasses must suffer and die so that we can rebuild our glorious might to defeat the omnipresent Enemy?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

That niche looks nearly 1938 huge now.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Same people will tell you the EU is not at war with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

is militarised austerity edible?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

What was that slogan from back in the day? "Cannons instead of butter"

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

"It's for Ukraine guys, you wouldn't want thet ebil orcs to win would you"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lol people are starting to catch on

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not just any people, Telegraph readers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

you know the narrative is collapsing when...

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Well, the empire has got to bleed itself somehow

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (5 children)

looks at picture at the top of the article... noticing that all of the places where there would usually be a patch are blank

Hey! Somebody got smart enough to ask the Ukrainian soldiers getting their pictures taken to take off all their (questionable) patches....

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