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[–] huppakee 17 points 1 week ago

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

It's certainly a crisis for the migrants, but I somehow doubt the sun meant it that way 🙄

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

This is part of warfare. Russia’s war in Europe will spark wave of refugees, collapse infrastructure, and will cost the world $1.5 trillion - 1.3% of global output - (here is an archived version of the article).

A war on NATO territory remains unlikely — not least because Russia doesn’t, for now, have the capacity and probably would not want a war on two fronts. But some Russian generals and senior officials have said publicly that their imperial ambitions don’t end with Ukraine and Putin himself laid claim to at least the whole of Ukraine last week [...]

In such a scenario [of a Russian attack on Nato], Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on NATO’s northeastern flank would be the most likely flashpoint. The three Baltic nations make up a small fraction of the European economy but strategically, they are critical [...]

A war, even in its initial phase, would see many people killed and likely trigger a flood of refugees. It would also exact a heavy economic toll [...]

An invasion could begin with a staged incident or a hybrid attack of some sort. The Moscow-Kalingingrad rail line, which passes through Vilnius without stopping, is one point of vulnerability — Lithuania police were this month hunting a Russian man who jumped from a moving train as it passed through their territory [...]

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 3 points 1 week ago

The Sun. Really?

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen the boats they are using on TV, and they are using thousands of them. Has anyone thought of tracking purchases of those? They don't return to France, so they must all be new. They must have been bought somewhere, imported somewhere, stored somewhere.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Germany iirc. So yes, they know.