Germany sending 5000 helmets! Not only not sending arms, blocking other nations from doing so.
This thread ended up going into some detail on how to disable a tank. Doesn’t seem so crazy that lightly trained city-dwellers could do some damage.
https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1497260123315703811?t=XqPovExLMVPnxI-Df5xbug&s=19
They’re the best helmets; also, they will get more airtime than guns.
Don’t forget the Czechs!!
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Liverpool vs Chelsea in the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley tomorrow - Fenway Sports vs Roman Abramovich
I don’t know a huge amount about Abramovich, but I don’t think he has aver been a big Putin fan. He stole, I mean earned, all his money under Yeltsin and fled, as far as I recall.
Seems he may still be a player.
Thomas Tuchel has admitted that he and his players are worried and distracted by the “uncertainty” created by the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, being named in parliament on Thursday.
Tuchel said he was aware that Chelsea could be affected if the UK government targets Abramovich with sanctions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The manager acknowledged that Chelsea could not ignore that a Labour MP told parliament that Abramovich was identified by the Home Office in 2019 as having links to the Russian state as well as to “corrupt activity and practices”.
Telling MPs that he was quoting from a Home Office document leaked to him, Chris Bryant suggested that the UK should seize Abramovich’s assets and bar him from owning Chelsea. Bryant also questioned why nothing more had been done about the 55-year-old’s UK assets given this official verdict.
Oh yeah, he will be caught up in the oligarch net for sure. I’m just saying I think he has always been against Putin, albeit not too vocally. That doesn’t make him any less part of the kleptocracy, just a different kleptocracy.
As a general rule, nobody who was born in the Soviet union is a big fan of the KGB.
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It has been German policy for more than 50 years to not export weapons into conflict regions which under usual circumstances is a very good policy. Unfortunately the invasion of Ukraine is very unusual and for German standards the administration has reacted with lightning speed to that.
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Aren’t Germans actually known for their efficiency?
What’s so unusual about it that the basis for the policy does not apply?
That was an earlier statement about playing in Russia.
Poland and Sweden today are saying they are not playing Russia anywhere. As far as I know, the Czechs haven’t said this yet.
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it’s a part of german constitution (post ww2 obv) that they cannot sell weapons for export for any reason.
Russia’s total disregard for the sovereignty of European nations and the threat this implies to NATO allies and therefore to Germany itself. I assume peer pressure plays a big role, too.
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abramovich is one of putin’s closest cronies
Ok, didn’t know that, I stand corrected.