Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Another man who will be trying his best to stay away from windows for the next while.

There were discussions of various recruitment efforts in Latin America. These would be incorporated into Ukraine's Foreign legion. Difficult to get any information given the secrecy and the level of disinformation floating around.

As regards the migrants, imagine morale would be an issue to be bluntly cold about it. Various NGO groups would have a melt down over it. Also would play into the Russian propaganda effort.

That was a Czech graft. They promised million of shells if they collect enough of donations. Just a move for empty insignificant suits to get their 5 minutes of fame and some little money on the side.

Lol. How can the Czech's profit off it exactly? Only people I could (conceivably) see profiting (dishonestly) are countries that get money and then don't deliver or deliver rubbish.

You are quite the cynic with a pretty diseased view of the world. Everyone is on the take eh, everyone is dirty and "grafting". Very Russian, to nationally stereotype.

Another day. Another arms dump.

Philosophical scenarios aside, I think there is zero chance something like this happens for a couple of reasons:

1. No western country would send men, against their will, to a country where they're going to be conscripted (It's one of the reasons why migrants don't get send back to Eritrea). Even if the politicians decided to do it, it would almost certainly be blocked in the courts.
2. It wouldn't be in Ukraine's interest from a PR point of view to make veiled threats against EU member nations. Zelensky understands this kind of thing innately and has been very successful in that area. Trying to strong-arm countries into doing something that large portions of their public would find morally unconscionable would be a sure-fire way to permanently burn any support they have in those countries.

Oh sorry I had no idea you are full of holy spirit living in a land of unicorns and fairies.

They introduced this scheme where they posed as intermediaries. Wanting to collect money supposedly knowing where supplies are and even claimed they can procure that amount. Guess what happened? When they were pressed into revealing sellers or directly connect buyer with sellers suddenly there was nowhere near what was promised so very little money fell in that trap.

Explain to me how intermediary profit in any business if standard definition of intermediary is diseased view in your opinion.

Everyone who can including ukrainians are trying to profit from this conflict. It was illustrated time and again like when us decided not to build tank repair shops in poland because what poles asked for it was beyond ridiculous.

Some progress hopefully

Russia is producing around 3 million shells per year (it has it's own looming issues with maintaining that level of production). It's military is centered around artillery.

Europe, which has been asleep since WW2, has woken up slightly, and current projections are for shell production to increase to around 2 million per year by end of next year.

The US is on target for 1.2 million shells per year next summer (est. up to 100k per month, tripling current production)

I really do wonder how much Russia has left in the tank (pardon the pun), but since footage of troops making their way to the front on scrambler bikes and unarmoured dessert cross vehicles you do wonder if all they've left is belief.

The saying goes every army is ready for the last war, and it seems that Russia was prepared for a war from the last century when borders were drawn by where tanks stopped rolling. They're having multi million dollar tanks being destroyed by $50 grenades dropped from drones adapted from the type of drone kits you'd get in the middle isle of aldi/lidl.

Well you would say I am an idealist from your perspective! Almost anyone would be I think going by your "output" on here.

It is not a normal business deal though is it? It is not comparable to what was going on with that tank maintenance facility in Poland either. The Czechs are more of a diplomatic itermediary here I think.

If the shells don't come there will be no money paid I assume. Even if they do come I think we'd need more specifics on how the grafting/thieving Czechs profit from it (other than potentially helping Ukraine survive, hard to value but definitely worth something to the Czech govt.?)

If the shells do materialise, you are never going to get some kind of offical confirmation of names of all of these countries/details of what is going on. They don't want to anger Russia. That is the whole point of all this obscurity around it. In addition I would say Russia would be working overtime trying to persuade any country with shells who is neutral to either stay out of this "scheme", or preferably, if they can be fired from Russia's guns, to supply them to their military instead!

How in the hell do Ukrainians "profit" off having the Russian army f-ck up their country and murder their people? That is quite some statement, and a real headscratcher.