this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
189 points (98.5% liked)

Ukraine

8242 readers
543 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

*Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

*No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

*Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

*Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW


Donate to support Ukraine's Defense

Donate to support Humanitarian Aid


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Source: https://t.me/Centr_omega_NGU/1130

Translation:

UAV that flew to Moscow and hit the target!

The First Contact company from Chernihiv has been developing drones since 2014, and created the "Kyivska Rus" strike drone.

The UAV was developed to deliver a "payload" over long distances.

The system consists of an aircraft and a control platform.

The drone has a flight range of 700 km. at a speed of 140 km/h. It can work at temperatures from -10 to +40 degrees.

It can carry a payload of up to 16 kg.

The UAV is equipped with a gasoline engine with a capacity of up to 12 horsepower, a tank of 20 liters.

The maximum take-off weight with fuel is 50 kg.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

The idea that the only options are defense spending or universal healthcare is a fallacy. It's a false choice. Common in propaganda.

In reality most (if not all) developed countries spend significantly LESS on healthcare than America. So if anything, having (near) universal healthcare would leave MORE money to spend on war.

In other words, America doesn't need to choose between military spending and universal healthcare. Certainly, you don't need to choose between supporting Ukraine (which might as well be a rounding error) and healthcare. America can choose to support Ukraine, maintain a huge defense budget, have universal (and superior) healthcare, and SAVE money.

The reason you don't have universal healthcare, isn't defense spending.

It's partly corporate greed and corporate influence.

It's partly an ideological choice.

It's partly American voters, voting against their own interests, because they've been lied to. Like you've almost certainly been lied to about healthcare.

Perhaps ask yourself who stood to gain from you thinking this was a binary choice.