• supersolid_snake
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    Western media’s next article: Brown and black people are stealing our bullets with their bodies.

  • freagle
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    Ukraine tries to build its own munitions industry

    We have a huge deficit of ammunition not just in Ukraine but all over the world,” Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told the Financial Times. “We understand we should produce this here in Ukraine because all around the world it’s finished, it’s depleted. All the warehouses are empty.”

    The government was drawing on the lessons of its dramatic increase in domestic drone manufacturing, he said, which is up from “a few dozen last year” to “dozens of thousands” this year.

    building up a procurement industry for shells, artillery and air defence is a far more complex and ambitious undertaking than for drones, at a time of worldwide shortages of key components and raw materials

    the global “shortage of gunpowder”

    A priority now is signing joint ventures with European and American defence companies

    Let’s hope the Global South can keep the resources away from the Global North long enough that they can’t ramp up production. And also that the US doesn’t unveil a new modality that doesn’t require gunpowder.

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      So this is how the US plans to get it’s money back and to resolve the contradictions between it’s imperialists and reality.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      making weapons in Ukraine has been a ridiculous piece of copium given that Russia is able to hit anywhere within Ukraine with impunity. Not to mention that Russia doesn’t even need to find all the factories, they can just keep dismantling the energy grid. Can’t produce weapons when you have no power.

  • bobs_guns
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    Sooner or later yankees will learn that you cannot live on bullets.