re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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How much do you think it costs to rebuild not only a country but its entire industrial base?

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WASHINGTON: The US military’s electronic warfare enterprise needs to take a page from SpaceX when it comes to responding to new threats, the Pentagon’s director for electromagnetic warfare said today.

After SpaceX sent Starlink terminals to Ukraine in February in an apparent effort to help Ukraine maintain its internet connection amid war with Russia, SpaceX founder Elon Musk claimed that Russia had jammed Starlink terminals in the country for hours at a time. After a software update, Starlink was operating normally, said Musk, who added on March 25 that the constellation had “resisted all hacking & jamming attempts” in Ukraine.

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Russia’s quest to sabotage Ukrainian forces’ internet access by targeting the Starlink satellite operations that billionaire Elon Musk has provided to Kyiv since the war’s earliest days appears to be more advanced than previously known, according to a classified U.S. intelligence report obtained by The Washington Post.

Moscow has experimented for months with its Tobol electronic warfare systems in a bid to disrupt Starlink’s transmissions in Ukraine, the top-secret assessment, which has not been previously disclosed, contends.

The document, among a cache of sensitive materials leaked online through the messaging platform Discord, dates to March and does not indicate whether any of Russia’s tests have been successful. But the intelligence finding is striking nonetheless as it appears to affirm what observers had only hypothesized previously: that a program ostensibly designed to protect the Kremlin’s satellites can be employed instead to attack those used by its adversaries.

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You have been vocal in this thread about our spending on Ukraine, have you been equally vocal about all the other government spending?

It matters because it establishes if you are just a troll or not. If you have been arguing against all of the spending, not just the Ukraine spending, then I wouldn't class you as a troll. However, if you only complain about the spending on Ukraine and not about all the other spending, then you come across as a Russian talking point troll.

Which are you?

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It would be good for Ukraine to hit fuel and ammo depots, C2, vehicle repair yards, etc. right at the outset. Ukraine could throw the Russian rear into disarray right as it hits the front with everything from drones to Bradleys to Leopards.

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Russia gets eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine is a European client state.

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Again, do you understand that total is included in direct investments which have economic outputs attached? Rebuilding its industrial base is going to be dependent on a lot of factors, but given that something like Phillips investments in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry were something like 150 million in the 1990s, I'm going to suggest that it is going to be a lot cheaper than the trillion totals. It's like you have no frame of reference other than to be aghast at the total amount of spending. It's getting towards OML levels.

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If the security situation is stable, lots of companies will invest in Ukraine. That's the understated effect of an American-led world. As long as we are in 'charge,' the countries in our orbit stand the chance of seeing their investments through.

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