Yes, but there is a quite a gap between ordering tanks and equipment and receiving said order.

South Korean armouries might have to start working overtime soon.

I have no English sources on hand, but there have been multiple parcels found across Europe that contained firebombs. In one case, the bomb didn’t go off mid-flight because the flight was delayed.

The heads of German intelligence agencies had their annual public hearing recently, making it very clear that Russia considers Germany an enemy. As far as I can tell, the response by our senior political figures has been deafening silence and inaction.

So Putin is not stupid at all. He is just counting on the continued indecisiveness of most western leaders.

During university I gave additional lessons for lower semesters and at times had to juggle three languages: Java, Typescript and plain JavaScript for that one professor who thought TS sucks.

Coding on the spot got really messy at times.

Smoking accidents can happen everywhere! Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

Which alternatives do you recommend?

inb4 Russian state media headline “Ukraine running out of troops. Hiring mercenaries! In other news: Don’t bother about the weirdly speaking comrades from Vladivostok!”

NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

I don’t think so. Ukraine is in a defensive war. Actively joining their side doesn’t turn it into an offensive one. The difference between offensive and defensive conflicts is the goal: In an offensive, you want to gain something. In a defence, it is about keeping what you have. Just because NATO would come to their aid, Ukraine wouldn’t want to conquer Russia.

That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

Multiple reasons probably:

• Ukraine was and to some extent still is a post-soviet state: Oligarchs, corruption and all that comes with it.
• There was the Budapest Memorandum in place which guaranteed a sovereign Ukrainian state affectively as buffer between Russia and other NATO countries. Which was subsequently broken by Russia in 2014.
• “Don’t anger the Russians”. See where this got us?

Well, that’d be the point of Ukraine joining NATO currently.

Well, it was bound to happen at some point.

Many features probably have been investigated by Russia already anyway, since Turkey wrecked a bunch of their Leos in Syria a couple of years ago. But of course, having an intact one gives a lot more options.

[…] the factory where the Leopard 2 resurfaced is far from the front line in Ukraine.

Well, smoking accidents can happen everywhere.

Also, funny to see in the article that hinterland made it into English as well.

But I’m skeptical that this is a cannon fodder battalion.

Any NK soldier that isn’t a technician is effectively cannon fodder in Ukraine. The DRK hasn’t fought an armed conflict since its founding. They may be experts at marching parades, but have no actual combat experience.

Doesn’t matter. Scholz couldn’t have remembered the plan anyway.

Yeah, but did they take down the website only, or did they also take down the content they mostly link to?

In the past, there have been investigations by multiple news outlets where they found that German police would routinely seize forums and domains where links to CP were posted but would not request the hosting providers of the linked content to delete the material.

As far as I understand the reports, the headline is correct.

It ran aground on a reef and got damaged beyond repair. While it is not fully submerged, the term “sunk” still applies.

Putin will burn everything down as long as he can be the king of the ashes.

*furiously waves book around*

Thank you!

I can’t find it right now, but there is some explanation in “Clean Code” why switches shouldn’t be used all over the place.

Yes, exactly that.

The Chaos Computer Club Initiative Chaos macht Schule might be able to help you with some materials and guidance.

The EU had no credibility when it comes to migration to begin with. Frontex has been complicit in all sorts of controversies.