You’re in the communist party of India, right?

Oh the machine is not at home. It’s at work. The team I’m in pooled together and bought one

N-no you take it back! I’m not a lib! I’m not a lib!

You know the narrative around Soviet-Finnish war? Yeah

Volksturm

I think it means “too close to be detected and destroyed in time”, rather than “sailors spooked by things flying within visual distance”. If my search-fu is not failing, a Shahed 136 can cross that distance in 6 minutes.

They mention Shahed 136 in the article, which AFAIK is used by the Russian army as Geran-2. From what I’ve found, it has operational range of up to 4 km and 10 kg warhead. Now I don’t know if such a warhead is large enough to be an actual threat to a destroyer vessel (anti-ship missiles tend to be larger, from what I’ve seen). But the range itself doesn’t appear to be the issue with using guns - it’s detection. Which, okay, is indeed an issue as we’ve seen with drone attacks deep within Russian territory.

But again - that doesn’t explain why they have to use those über expensive missiles.

Thanks!

Hold on. Why do they need missiles for that? Have they ran out of those much vaunted CIWS Phalanx? Or out of italian anti-missile gun. That one is supposed to have guided munitions specifically against missiles and light aircraft (drones)

My comments started showing up in vomit yellow, as do comments from some others. Anyone know what the issue is?

Who is this dolt and why should anyone care what it has to say

There’s been a video posted by Shariy (Ukrainian liberal journalist, currently in opposition to Zelensky) with a deputy in Zakarpatye tossing live grenades into a government session. Anyone has more info on this?

Let’s not pretend the sanctions did not have an effect. Egg prices went through the roof, to the point where people have been pleading Putin about them during the hotline just this week. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I’m glad you asked. There’s something I’ve learned myself quite recently. There’s a German health insurance company Allienz SE, famous among other things for working with nazi death camps. They have subsidiaries in Russia. Providing, among other things, so called OMS - universal health care.

Decrepit, classist bastards who want to kill anyone opposing their hegemony and enslave the rest? Sounds about right!

Does Red Faction count?

The goal was never to win

I will second Noon books by Strugatskys. It’s literally the series that comes to mind when the op’s question is “communist setting without being explicit”. The books deal a lot with the moral dilemmas that arise in such society and with contacts with other cultures.

I would also suggest “Probationers”, also by Strugatsky brothers. It’s a bit more grounded, taking place solely inside the solar system, but it has more overt “capitalism vs communism” discussions by several characters, without veering into propaganda or strawmanning. If anything, the chapter with space miners seems like a direct jab at contemporary (and even modern, despite book being old) western sci-fi. Good stuff

Raise a glass for the real ones

If the settler colony again is controlled by the indiginous population

Out of curiosity, who do you consider to be the indigenous population of the region?