Oh, “they” already have them. Be it MAGA in the US questioning citizenship by birth or here in Germany the AFD which plans to strip it from people they do not considere German enough.

Inflation is not the same as price hikes due to shortages.

In this case? Because if Trump issues an export ban, gas prices in the EU are going through the roof.

It’s extortion. Plain and simple.

No reasonable person faults them for shooting down the first bunch. But once it became clear that the whole swarm is just carrying supplies for civilians they should have stopped. Which they obviously didn’t.

My first internal response was “How do the Ukrainians make sure that the drones can be recognized as humanitarian aid?”. The picture in the article just shows grey shadows in a dark sky. In a war defined by the buzzing sound of little rotors, my first instinct would be to shoot them down as well. But then:

[…] troops are shooting down food-carrying drones, confiscating or reselling supplies that reach the ground, and detaining residents found with humanitarian parcels.

Yeah, the fuckers know it’s just aid …

Get all the grocery shopping done early and then sit back and watch the show unfold.

Unless there is a specific setting for admins/mods to disable this feature: You should be able to.

You misunderstand the subtext: It’s not “Let’s move on” it is “Don’t be ashamed of what happened”.

They haven’t forgotten …

Well, why not take the salary AND the bribes?

Cry inside

One trick for employers to get rid of unwanted employees is to simply not ansign them work. Constant and deliberate boredom is a lot harder on the mind than it sounds.

So yes, if the gym and/or a maths book is all you got you WILL do that.

Oh no! Who could have predicted that there is a connection to Trump? /s

Is your problem with the news site or the article in particular? Because the only part of the article that I’d complain about is:

At the same time, the Romanian Armed Forces will not be able to sustain this level of expenditure in the long term if Russian drones continue to violate the country’s airspace as frequently.

What’s the source of this claim? The overall assessment seems OK to me. NATO forces are regularly using high cost ammunitions to shoot down cheap drones. In the long term that’s a problem.

I don’t have to provide the solution just because I voice a concern. Me dictating Ukraine how to fight their war wouldn’t be much more than the ramblings of an armchair general.

Haven’t prisoners had the “opportunity” to shorten their sentences by serving for a while now? Or was that specific to Wagner units?

People saying “It’s war” and shrugging it off has lead to many war crimes in the past. The end doesn’t justify the means.

No, but they might lose international support if the impression arises that Ukraine is fighting not the Russian military but civilians.

You are missing my point. Fighting or war for that matter is not a binary state. It’s a process of escalating steps.

At the start of the invasion Russia thought they would simply roll down the road to Kyiv and crush the Ukrainian army on the way. This led to ridiculous situation such as that large tank column being shot to pieces and farmers capturing military equipment.

After that Russias tactic changed to i.e. targeting civilian infrastructure or war crimes like those in Bucha in an attempt to break the resolve of the Ukrainian citizens which obviously didn’t work so they escalated further.

I’d argue at the end of this ladder is a Russian nuclear attack. Do I think that’s likely? No, not at all because breaking the nuclear taboo the negative consequences far outweigh the possible gains.

My concern is that as Ukraine is climbing their own escalatory ladder this might lead to actions which start blurring the lines between fighting the Russian military and fighting civilians.