I wouldn’t make this judgment based on a single news piece with 2 pictures total but I’ll be on a lookout if this is a pattern.

I’m a Pole so I probably didn’t consider German military could be good news or sexy, even subconsciously. But then you have those Hugo Boss uniforms. Hmmmm.

My money is on subconscious fear of German women. Maybe they grew up on Allo Allo!

If it’s anything like Analogue Pocket then the contact points will need to be in pristine condition. Blowing on them might not do the trick but isopropyl swab should.

I’ve never heard of flywheel energy storage before. This is so cool, thanks!

It’s an air raid alert map with a date and time, which was supposed to serve as a supplement to the news piece.

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It’s not feudalism yet, it’s still under construction.

Start with e-mail and it gets easier from there. All those nice European services you start using now happen without US corpos knowing what’s going on. Information is how they dominate and they’ll suffocate without user profiling.

You’re very likely right. India and Pakistan have roughly the same combined amount of warheads as UK & France do. Russia has much more so even in the best scenario outlook is rather grim but thankfully the deterrence has been working amazingly for every state with nukes, so far.

What really worries me is that in the event of a global war we’ll be dealing with lots of previously secret weapons. Satnav will go poof once Russia explodes their garbage bombs in space and that’s just one of the credible threats done so far.

Full scale one would bring death and destruction to the whole world one way or another. But a limited one with UK/France? 🤷‍♂️

I have no idea how the Chinese grid holds up but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did well because they’re not allergic to central planning.

Baltics will have to do that on their porch probably. Poland has a pretty barren border with Russia and swamps/forests on the border with Belarus. The latter is more of an issue, people living there had their lives disturbed by constant military presence and Lukashenko was pushing migrants to us wholesale through there for years. Now they get mines too. This sucks all around so fuck Putin.

All you say is true but not impossible to solve with adequate funding. I’d argue that Windows and Office is so user hostile these days that the barrier to entry is much lower than usual. Have you tried to save a file in Excel in the last year or so? It’s like Office Guantanamo and people are increasingly fed up

When evaluating Mutually Assured Destruction scenarios military must consider backup plan for what happens after we bomb ourselves back to Stone Age. Russia has much more capability to carry on due to size, low population density and being used to things being awful all around. They’re mad but they are also cold calculating bastards that they are probably estimating chances of Syberia / Arctic being habitable after bombs and global warming.

„What is the point of the world without Russia in it?” - Putin bluffed some time ago.

… does the Russian civilian population have any influence on Russian decision-making? Is there any point in running expensive PR-campaigns against them?

Never forget Stanislav Petrov. In the end it’s a human that needs to press the button, at least for now.

This is an issue both sides will experience unfortunately even if Russia will have it much worse probably.

If we use competence as a measure of whether we can do something or not we wouldn’t get too far in Poland. It’s one of the reasons why I think people scared of sending troops to Ukraine should rethink that. How is an army supposed to get some real experience? Ukrainian and Russian armies are now trained through combat that we know very little about. I’d rather have our army train at the job far away from here. They are paid extremely well (flats for free! in today’s world!) and it’s time to earn that.

A natural consequence of sharing a border with Russia. Inb4 critique from countries that do not share borders with genocidal regimes.

He is not functionally in charge right now anyway.

Trump has whims but Vance has plans which is way worse. Trump being incredibly incompetent is a saving grace in all of this mess. Imagine that US elected a professional autocrat like Orban - they’d be stuck in this for decades.