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  • Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 8:51 AM

    Every morning when I get up, I check social media, to see what has happened in the war during the night.

    Almost every day, Ukraine has hit a military target, Russia has struck a civilian home, and the free world shrugs it off saying, “Ukraine’s got this”.

    This morning, Russia hit Pechenihy in the Kharkiv region with a missile, hitting a café and a post office, killing 10 civilians and wounding 17.

    We need a D-day intervention.

    The coalition of the willing needs to step up and be willing.

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  • DrYakdryak@mstdn.science
    Aug 18, 2026, 9:26 AM

    @xs4me2 @randahl and small workshops in European countries independently ramping up production of parts of dual-use drones, etc. to assist increasing a bit morw Ukraine's already insane throughput?

    (Ukraine's production is heavily distributed anyway. No big factory, tons of small workshops already working collaboratively. Onboarding a few more across Europe while giving plausible deniability to the governments could work)

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  • Enea LecasEnea90@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 9:46 AM

    @dryak @xs4me2 @randahl Amen! Logistic and production centers throughout Europe where regular people could take part. I think it would be a game changer for Ukraine. We regular people in Europe don't want to be cuddled by our governments, we want to be able to make a difference where it matters!

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  • DrYakdryak@mstdn.science
    Aug 18, 2026, 10:07 AM

    @Enea90 @xs4me2 @randahl
    As an added bonus:

    - ramping up distributed production across can get us a head start if Putin's madness continues and he decides to further advance toward Europe (e.g. as Europe currently stands, Baltic states wouldn't stand against Russia's current pace of drones production)

    - as the point is to do dual-use parts, this is going to have potential impact for peace-time uses too (drone deliveries? heavy transport drones for firefighting next year? etc.)

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  • xs4me2xs4me2@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 10:46 AM

    @dryak @Enea90 @randahl

    Already here in the Netherlands we have companies ramping up production of drone technology for such properties. Europe needs to be prepared for this new innovation in warfare that will make anything we are used to obsolete...

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  • MidgePhotoPhoto55@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 9:26 AM

    @randahl in the several years before D-Day, there was a massive ramping up of production of the necessary tools.
    But you might see some current activity as shaping.
    An opposed beach landing invasion looks rather hard, and there are examples of marches on Moscow ending badly.

    The Cold War 1 solution of letting Russia overreach itself, rot internally, and then collapse, may be slower, but also produce fewer casualties. And a better ratio of them.

    #war

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