Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Legbiter]

Just needs a few coats of paint and it'll be like new.

Some Bondo will fill that right in.

 

Won't work on the pixelated vatnik slurry though.

[Jacob]

I've seen some amazing repairs done with instant noodles, super glue, and baking soda. Maybe they should try that?

[The Brain]

I think you guys greatly underestimate the time and effort needed to repair damage of that magnitude to a submarine.

[Jacob]

I think you guys greatly underestimate the time and effort needed to repair damage of that magnitude to a submarine.

[crazy canuck]

I think you guys greatly underestimate the time and effort needed to repair damage of that magnitude to a submarine.

You have obviously never used instant noodles as a binding agent.

[Sheilbh]

Haven't come across this before - a tracker if Ukraine support, in absolute terms and expressed as share of GDP: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Yeah it's generally interesting but would just flag that France in particular is wildly understated.

[Admiral Yi]

China has given aid to Ukraine? 

[The Brain]

I think you guys greatly underestimate the time and effort needed to repair damage of that magnitude to a submarine.

You have obviously never used instant noodles as a binding agent.

I have never used it successfully on a navy submarine.

[The Brain]

China has given aid to Ukraine? 

Humanitarian. Noodles?

[Sheilbh]

China has given aid to Ukraine? 

Limited humanitarian aid - which is one of the principles on the Chinese peace plan. But they want aid humanitarian, depoliticised and ideally distributed by the UN, which obviously is more about drawing a contrast with the west.

[Syt]

Haven't come across this before - a tracker if Ukraine support, in absolute terms and expressed as share of GDP: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

IfW was where I did my research for my final paper in 1999. Of course at the time I would have to go to the library counter, give them my search terms and they'd hand me binders full of newspaper and magazine clippings on my chosen topic (critical review of current suggestions and methods of wage subsidies as a means to reduce unemployment).

Had a quick look at their open positions. This sounds like it might be of interest for Languishites.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/institute/career-education/job-vacancies/intern-m-f-div-geopolitics-of-telegraph-cable-investments-1850-1914/

Intern (m/f/div), Geopolitics of Telegraph Cable Investments 1850-1914
The Research Center International Finance and Macroeconomics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy is looking for an

intern (m/f/div), full-time or a three-day working week
for our research project on "The Geopolitics of Telegraph Cable Investments 1850-1914" at the earliest possible date. We are a young, dynamic, research-oriented team with a large international network, focusing on international capital flows, financial globalization, financial history, and questions of international political economy, in particular geopolitics and geoeconomics.

The intern will actively participate in our research project on the geopolitics of international telegraphy before 1914. In this ambitious research project, we explore the geopolitical investments by countries. We are in particular interested in the battle for technological sovereignty in international telegraphy before World War 1. Generating micro-level data on telegraph cables, and private and public expenditures from historical sources, and processing them for use in Excel and Stata will constitute a big part of the project.

[Josquius]

How much do I have to pay? 

[grumbler]

I think you guys greatly underestimate the time and effort needed to repair damage of that magnitude to a submarine.

You have obviously never used instant noodles as a binding agent.

I have never used it successfully on a navy submarine.

I'm with you.  Noodles don't cut it at an operating depth of 300 feet, even in the relatively warm Black Sea.  Only duct tape will hold under those conditions.

[grumbler]

China has given aid to Ukraine? 

2 million Euros in humanitarian aid doesn't get them near the top.

[Jacob]

I have never used it successfully on a navy submarine.

To be honest, neither have I. Which is why I'm keen to see the Russians try it.