By all accounts, the mobilisation is extremely unpopular in Russia. The only people who actively support it are those hate filled Russian OAPs who love Putin but who have no skin in the game.
Pity they didn’t quite get the name right.
Easily fixed.
Musk petulantly pulls charitable support for Starlink after being told to **** off for trying to tell Ukraine to simply give up and hand Crimea over to Russia and “everyone wins”
If I were in charge, I'd organise some mock street drafting in Moscow, make sure the videos were widely circulated and hope the provinces fall for it and settle down.
Or if your on a plane.....about to fly it!
It also seems some of the Russian precision weapons use postcode -level accuracy and not actual coordinates.
Another street/path/lane getting renamed near a Russian embassy:-
So appeasing Russia in your book is ...letting neighboring countries of russia join NATO.........really ?
That's what happens when you use the chips from white goods for guidance systems...
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I've been 3 times, mainly to the perimeter roads, nowhere near as good as your experiences ,I'd love a proper tour of the the place when there's something interesting flying in
This is going so appalling badly for the little príck that its growing quite likely that all they'll have left to defend Russia itself is the threat of a nuke. They won't have any long range missiles and very little artillery left. And even if they do they won't have an army to operate it. The americans must be laughing up their sleeve. So far they've spent a pittance sending equipment they were trying to retire anyway bar maybe the himars and have seen the imminent collapse of their long time foe as a threat on the world stage. Apart from some online trolling, Russia won't be able to project power anywhere in the world for the next 20yrs. Old Vlad the great turns out to be Vlad the plike.
Wrong powerplant lol
Properly managed, Russia is a very wealthy Country, I'm sure it can afford the reparations. A few hundred billion (or even a round trillion) will cover the cost nicely. But if it takes more, then it takes more. Russia is liable for every cent of repairing the destruction they have caused, and that will include medical issues looking ahead.
One of the primary requirements for being a good liar, is an impeccable memory.......obviously not a very common trait in Putin's Russia.
You don't need a good memory if there is no such thing as truth
Apart from some online trolling
And they are appalling at it - head over to P.IE to see, though, it has calmed down in recent days
These OAPs should not get too cocky. In Syria, I saw plenty of OAP's on duty at checkpoints, mostly in "quiet" places, but still they carried AK47's to defend themselves in case their checkpoint was hit.
Elon is acting the pr**ck and starting to go on like a petulant child now.
But I wouldn't equate spaceX to Elons twitter rants. What they have done for the US space industry has been revolutionary, without spaceX the US would still be relying on Russia to get astronauts to the ISS.
Hopefully this starlink issue well be resolved pretty soon. On the face of it I don't think the request for payment is unreasonable, but when you take it along with all the ramblings Musk has made on Twitter recently it makes it look like he is just throwing his toys out of the pram.
That works fine in a Country like Russia, a system based on lies, but that won't cut the mustard when dealing with Country's who have standards where the truth is concerned.
@firemansam4 Hopefully this starlink issue well be resolved pretty soon. On the face of it I don't think the request for payment is unreasonable, ...
They are being paid by the people who buy the units and pay the subscription services fees,
He's making out like he's given all those units which I believe is around 7000 altogether and giving the subscriptions free when he's not
Yea I see quite a few conflicting positions on this, I did see that many in Ukraine are buying and funding these themselves.
Elon is claiming this is actually costing SpaceX 20 million a month to fund, but then thats what Elon is claiming, so pinch of salt needed their.
If it is costing spaceX several million a month then I think its reasonable that they shouldn't have to pick up the tab on this.
However the timing along with Elons twitter rants, and pro-russian diplomacy ideas, is very suspicious.
Are SpaceX's margins that tight that they're worried about a few million a month? You couldn't get much better PR in the West than being the company to provide vital technologies to a friendly state in their bid to defend their land.
If SpaceX genuinely cannot continue to provide it for free, I'm sure the US government can easily foot the bill, considering everything else that is being provided to Ukraine right now.
For me it's how this situation is being handled essentially on twitter,and very much publicly,and after the sudden geofencing of the starlinks in Ukraine,
Billions have been spent on ukraine but he waits till after he's a chat with putin and promoting Putins plan ,
Suddenly geofencing and demanding payment from the US ,it's very suspicious.
Surly if he needed paying he could have easily gone to the US government directly and talked , rather than throwing his toys out of the pram on twitter
The US are already footing the bill, along with the UK and Poland. Just like all of Musks businesses it needs to be heavily subsidised to survive. Space X losing money, Tesla billions in debt despite massive government supports and stock which is hugely over valued. The boring company is surviving off people pumping money into it in the hope that Musk has another hit on his hands. None of his current businesses are making profits on the scale required to justify the investment they received.
He claims starlink is loosing money...
He also thinks that the pentagon should pick up the tab for the costs.
But I would agree with Gatling about this all being suspicious with the timing. And he just doesn't seem to be able to stop with all the twitter stuff.
He claims that he is still on the side of Ukraine, which if true he should stick to what he knows, and stop trying to think he is some kind of diplomat, and playing politics about something he seems to know little about.
Is this the Russia invasion of Ukraine or the bash Elon Musk thread . . .
Facts in no order of importance
Tesla is cash positive which means it's earning more morning for car sales than it spent in salaries / capital deprecation but instead of paying a dividend Elon 'Edge Lord' Musk (with the agreement of the Tesla board) is re-investing this money back into research for Machine Learning / FSD / Tesla Bot
SpaceX is also earning income as it has consistently under promised and over delivered on various NASA / US Defense contracts for ISS re-supply / Spy satellite launches, again like Tesla all this revenue is re-invested back into the Spaceship / Starfactory and the 'Mission to Mars'
If you want to know what true rent-seeking looks like, checkout Boeing and their Starliner program or ULA and their SLS program both are competitors to SpaceX and are continuously sucking on the US tax payer teat despite failing to deliver any successful launches years (decades / millennia) after the agreed contract launch date
TLDR: check out the internet, it's a wonderful resource for learning about space exploration - GIYF
p.s this guys analysis is also pretty good, was wondering why the attack from the western side of Kherson was 'stalled' these past couple of weeks, but a pretty good explanation of the Ukrainian Army waiting for their chess pieces on the board to line up before announcing 'Check Mate'
Surely a deal has to be done at some point. If the far east regions of Ukraine were fighting to be part of Russia before the war started, then maybe it's time to let it go, but to draw new borders, not for Russia to take whole regions, but any deal must come with Ukraine getting a fast track to Nato and EU membership.
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