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Also you can donate directly for the kamikaze drones here: https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate They are extremely effect
by ponector 2y ago
Also you can donate directly for the kamikaze drones here: https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate
They are extremely effective in countering russian troops. One drone costs as little as 500$
- riehwvfbk 2y ago[flagged]
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI think you are going to have to convince Putin. Good luck with that!
- ponector 2y agoThat is why Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept capitulation on Russian terms. Like to give Russia two big cities Zaporizhzhia and Kherson they have no control of.
- curt15 2y agoA Trump surrender like the world has never before seen
- sitkack 2y agoWe all watched Trump surrender on the livestream.
- lern_too_spel 2y agoThe rare earth deal, or "raw earth" as Trump calls it, seems to actually be with Russia instead of Ukraine. Trump has decided he can spend nothing and eventually drop sanctions and in return, Russia will give the US access to Ukraine's mineral wealth.
- ponector 2y agoOnly if Ukraine will stop fighting, which they wouldn't. Yes, USA is a major donor. Yes, it will be harder without their support. But without it Ukraine will continue fight. Because if they stop - it means the end of Ukraine. Ukrainians will be new soldiers in Russian army, a fresh cannon fodder against European guns . It is interesting to see Trump's bulling. What if Ukraine will ignore his threats? What a fool trump is now, with his promise to end the war soon? He has no leverage anymore. Well, he can sell more weapons to his friend putin to help finish the war.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoHey, the US got half of Ukraine as a vassal state. 50% is more than the 0% before. Access to natural resources is about to be handed over. This is what all these wars for "liberty" are all about anyway. Time to call it a day and stop, no?
- lern_too_spel 2y agoHe's applying the same game plan in Gaza. He'll give Israel weapons and look the other way as they clear it out, and then he wants the US to profit. The US has done this before in Iran and various Central American banana republics, leading to the terrorism and migrant crises we still have today, but helping aggressors set up illegitimate governments was becoming more and more unfashionable until Trump came along.
- regularjack 2y agoSome people care about justice, you clearly don't.
- kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 2y ago[flagged]
- riehwvfbk 2y agoNot your brand of justice, no.
- ponector 2y agoI would like to mortgage the house for it. Do you want to sign off the mortgage for my house in the city which is bombed to the dust by Russians? It is quite easy to end the war: give enough weapons to Ukraine and put strict sanctions to Russia. However USA decided not to this. They sent some old weapons with huge restrictions to use against Russians, to be able barely survive. End the war - means force Ukraine to accept capitulation and encourage Russians to advance to the next neighbor. This Trump-Putin deal looks like Hitler-Stalin agreement to divide Europe. Russians takes Ukraine now, mobilize Ukrainians to the Russian army and will send them as cannon fodder to the Baltic states. This is a future of Trump's "peace" deal.
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
- UncleEntity 2y agoNothing's really stopping them from leaving Ukraine, is there? If you don't want to be targeted by kamikaze drones then don't volunteer to be part of an invading force. Back in the day I didn't really complain too much about being targeted when I was running around in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Well, other than the whole 'non-combatant' rules of war Geneva Convention thing but that was my choice as I knew they didn't discriminate when it came to killing people.
- amluto 2y agoIn slight fairness, I don’t think most of the Russian soldiers are volunteers at this point.
- codedokode 2y agoIt is not so easy. There are involuntarily drafted people, there are convicts who joined in exchange for a pardon and there are volunteers attracted by huge bonus and salary.
- ponector 2y agoDrafted people and convicts are small part of current Russian occupation forces. Mainly volunteers attracted by money.
- ponector 2y agoAt this point most of Russian occupation forces are volunteers who signed up to get enormous sign-in bonus and huge salary. Huge for Russian rural areas. They promise up to 4 million rubles sign-in and 220000+ monthly. They are eager to go killing neighbors for $2500 monthly salary.
- Justsignedup 2y agoAgreed. Russia can pull out of their invasion literally any time.
- codedokode 2y agoThey cannot because they have already added 4 new regions into the Constitution. And it doesn't allow removing.
- motorest 2y ago> They cannot because they have already added 4 new regions into the Constitution. And it doesn't allow removing. If there was ever a bullshit reason. Russia, just leave. What an embarrassment.
- ponector 2y agoThey can always retreat. Like they did from Kherson. Russian constitution is a joke, putin does whatever he want. Like a true friend of Trump. "Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future." And now Trump calls putin a friend...
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- unethical_ban 2y agoRarely do I see a commenter who blames Ukraine for the war, explain their position or elaborate on what the next 5-10 years of geopolitics will look like.
- bryant 2y ago[flagged]
- riehwvfbk 2y ago[flagged]
- Sabinus 2y agoYeah and because no one beggars themselves to solve world hunger, climate change, or malaria no one cares about those things either. /s
- johnisgood 2y agoWe prioritize things. I care about Malaria but it does not directly affect me, so I do not prioritize it. Climate change requires more than a single person and their funds, unless you are Bezos, Musk, or whoever. I know there are ways to contribute to it that are not monetary, but it is more complicated than this reductionist view. I care about world hunger too, and I am against the waste of food, but what can I do if restaurants are even legally obliged to waste food? I do not buy anything from such restaurants, at least, and I try my best to not be wasteful. Additionally, how much do SWEs earn per month? I do not earn much at all (for reasons not disclosed here), my money would not even be a drop in the bucket, but a small part of that drop. I personally could not donate $500 even if I wanted to, because that would put me pretty close to homelessness (not that anyone cares).
- unethical_ban 2y agoExcellent bait. You ignore the points brought up in the parent post. You ignore other peoples' direct questions (like mine about what specific actions you you'd take regarding Ukraine and how you think those actions will play out over the next decade). You actually haven't made an iota of a point, but you're so confident that you have that it distracts from real conversation.
- vastinfest 2y agoOh come now.. Don't just judge everyone by your own example. There are groups of people who e.g. 3D print drone parts, along with all the "posturing". From my own experience - it is quite easy to go through more than $500 of money in filament alone.
- HPMOR 2y agoI know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war going on, and the US is becoming complicit in the tragedy. But if we don't have time to be pedantic about monetary symbols then what good is the freedom we still possess.
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- Suppafly 2y agoPeople are downvoting this, but I'm always suspicious of comments online that imply they are from the US but mess up simple details that no native US user would mess up.
- dmos62 2y agoIf you're saying that someone is lying, you should be more upfront. Who do you think it is?
- kelnos 2y agoI dunno, a friend of mine does this, and she's a naive born American (and so are her parents). English is her only language. She knows it's "wrong", but just likes it better.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoFrankly, with both percents and dollars, we say "One-hundred dollars/percent," so putting the symbol at the front is counterintuitive to how we speak.
- Suppafly 2y agoThere is always an exception that proves the rule.
- ponector 2y agoSpecial for you: one drone costs as little as 500€. But you can donate even few dollars, everything counts. That is the power of crowdfunding. That guy by the link, Sternenko, supplied Ukrainian forces with 100 000 drones in 2024.