Cool video. But that looks like what I expected. The videos of the pagers are small direct explosions and not really the heavy flame and smoke of the videos.
That powerbank in the bus.. whoa.. and those guys with the ebike in the elevator.. stuff of nightmares.
Discord is already one of the black holes of the internet, where information goes to die.
It was for what I explained above. This is money that is spent on top of the 817 billion us defense budget.
Money is spent within the US and used to procure new stuff. At the same time the US sends their dated stockpiles to Ukraine. The US spends money maintaining stockpiles (keeping stuff operational is not free) and explosives have a shelf life, so once near expiration it needs to be either refurbished or disposed of and both cost money too.
Money is virtually endless in this aspect, as the amounts spent on this for help to Ukraine amounts to a small percentage.
The total spent is 177 billion since the start of the war, of which 107 billion is sent, the rest is used by the us military to cover the cost of the help (logistics, oversight etc.).
In the same period the US military had a budget of 817 billion a year.. and we are in year.. 3 so 60 per year out of 817 billion. And again the 107 billion is spent on buying replacement stuff from US defence contractors who employ US workers and pay US taxes. This is not as expensive as you think. The other 70 billion pays US military costs. So in essence it is an increase in us defense spending.
Some Hezbollah requisitions guy forgot proper opsec and ordered a new pagers in bulk, which where intercepted and swapped.
What a bizzare situation. I wonder if we will find out how it was done. Because if this was just batteries.. that's really scary. But I expect there where explosives involved.
In their article on reasons for use smex omits that they cannot be traced as they do not send data, only recieve. Which is why they are used by terrorist organisations.. no risk of being tracked.
And if they don't.. their wives are at home encouraged to have sex at Work........
Yeah we live in a world that has people dying of hunger while at the same time CEO's have yacht support vessels and private planes for LA to Seattle commutes.
You joke, but have you heard about yacht support vessels. Essentially a second yacht for the personell to live and sleep on, and stow all the toys like jetskis so you have room for a bowling alley and other essentials on the parent yacht. It is also faster than the yacht in question, so they can clean up if the yacht leaves and arrive ahead of the parent on the new location to setup already.
Yep! And the fact you can produce your own stuff in itself is important. It also creates jobs inside the EU on both manufacturing and R&D.
LoL ofcourse they do. But the fact is we should aim to become independent of the US and this means getting your own defense sector. High paying jobs and money that stays in the block.. all good. The goal should be more than half spent in-bloc.. I'd favor 80pct+
The US has been letting their mega corps and billionaires get off without paying proper taxes for decades. How many trillions did trump add to the deficit with his tax cut for the rich?
These issues are probably fixed by stopping with Reaganomic thinking. Taxing unrealized capital gains, disallowing stock buybacks and switching to a method of revenue based taxing as the profits just flow to tax havens and sit there.
Edit: also you know that the US military complex as a whole is just a gigantic social security program with extra steps, right?