Depending on the source, Chernihiv has been encircled since the start of the war. I'm not certain what changed to make Wikipedia mark their map like that. Has there been any indication of an increased Russian troop presence south of Chernihiv?
LMAO at the cope roads. Sure, Russia only seized long narrow corridors following the path of the roads and they definitely don’t have control of anything but the road.
The caller?
I understand why they have it marked like that. There's likely no Russian or Ukrainian troops in the countryside that they have marked as Ukrainian, and they only marked territory with a confirmed Russian troop presence.
I'm not sure how you can say that when it was just years prior to that that Yasser Arafat (and Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) got a Nobel Peace Prize for literally being a terrorist which he remained until his dying day.
Well they did need an excuse to update equipment regardless, this looks like a good reason to slip a few other procurement items in. From what I've heard a lot of their airforce is pretty old.
A perfect time for the Canuck Coup.
I dunno about that. They have resources and heavy industry. But stuff like electronics both hardware and software are imports. Same with durable consumer goods like white goods and automobiles. They had most of their auto industry shut down because it relies on euro import parts for powertrain.
Eh... they kinda are. They trade petroleum for key technology and components that allows them to "make" items there. Chip manufacturing, for example. They really can't do that one in-house. Not well anyways.
Not that hard to switch production lines, just gotta move your sliders around a bit. Takes about a minute.
Finally a real expert opinion.
You just reminded me how much I fucking hated HoI2-3's industrial system.
they had the ability to manufacture near everything as recent as 30 years ago.
If a man is unwilling to fight for his ideas then either the man's no good or his ideas aren't.
Imagine if Canada as an economy and country just collapses because they send all their shit to Ukraine and then Putin takes Ukraine anyway and has a ton of new Canadian supplied equipment. The Ukraine would be a small price to pay to get rid of Canada.
I'm not saying it would be easy, or that they would be making top quality products. However, they can make "good enough" products. At the end of the day, all the bells and whistles on a lot of the stuff we use are nice, but hardly essential. They could for example go back to making pos ladas for the domestic market. Also they have way more strategic materials than just oil, titanium is a big one for example.
What makes you think that people need to be convinced?
