Teams are losing parts of text chat conversations for me. Not sure if that’s issue of their PWA on Linux or just an issue in general…

The code might still be a derivative work.

The first thing that crossed my mind is that they might try to cancel OpenTTD. Chris Sawyer reportedly wasn’t too happy about OpenTTD but didn’t too much against it, maybe recognising that it is a fan tribute. Nobody can expect that of Ataris’s corporate lawyers.

Lenin claimed that capitalists would sell him the rope he hangs them with. I use lemmy to, among other stuff, spread that tankies are stupid & russia sucks.

Did Hungary annex Slovakia again or what?

Nobody is airlifting a tank when introducing it to the army. They will ship it to Europe and then move it through Poland, just like everything else.

Giga Romania? Does it contain Hungary? /s

That’s bad!

Honestly, I think that there may be a very legitimate argument that given that Romania and Bulgaria joined – and this becomes even more-significant with a Ukrainian membership – that the scope of Article 6 should be extended to the Black Sea, as we did with Turkey when Turkey joined. Otherwise, it’s possible for Russia to perform a blockade on NATO Black Sea powers and sink their warships without them being able to avail themselves of NATO Article 5 protection.

Broadly speaking you aren’t wrong but ATM russian navy is unable to blockade even the civilian shipping of a country that has no navy. There is probably no need to resolve this issue now, especially as the Black sea countries are bound by the previous treaties on Black Sea like the Montreux convention. Moscow might be more amenable to changes of these treaties if NATO doesn’t let them win in Ukraine.

Czechoslovakia certainly didn’t invade in the traditional sense, because:

• The troops were there before the bolshevik revolution with the agreement of the Russian government and on the way out of Russia when they were attacked.
• Czechoslovakia didn’t exist yet.

Sure, that’s already happening even with the dual use supplies. But it will make the supplychain more complicated and less steady and it will give us more clout on the countries reselling to them(China doesn’t want lose access to the west, it’s more about Central Asia). It will also make it cost more, but that’s of no concern to these people.

But the high officials and oligarchs don’t want to drink vodka for commoners, they want wine, cognac & whisky from the west.

We really should sanction exporting alcohol to ruskys, if only to save ourselves from Dima’s delirium maddness.

So unable to accept being proven wrong you descended into elementary school level ad hominem attacks, pathetic.

You:

The T-34 is a direct design descendant

vs

The article you link:

The T-18 and its derivatives were essentially unsuccessful designs, …, and in the meantime a number of foreign tank designs were available for production.

You were simply wrong.

WDYM? English Wikipedia article on T-34 also mentions origin from Christie’s designs.

That’s wrong. T-34 was an evolution of the BT series tanks, which themselves evolved from designs of Walter J. Christie, whose licence Soviets bought in the beginning of 30’s.

EDIT: And to be pedantic: Although it was directed from Moscow, the main tank plant was in todays Kharkiv, Ukraine - so it’s more accurate to talk about Soviet tank program.

Yes. Yes, we did. And what are you going to do, khuylo yebanyy?

Bridges(and other transport infrastructure) are valid military targets. Unlike children hospitals for example. Seems to me that you, just like much of moskals, still don’t grasp what starting a war means.

Look, ruskies have been hiring in Cuba, India, Nepal and elsewhere for well over a year now. If they don’t know what’s going on, it’s only because of ignorance.

Ignorance kills. In this case quite literally.