Posted on 03/13/2022 5:39:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRoosterNew
Russia’s Bombs Force Ukraine Into War Economy: ‘Plants That Made Sweaters Are Making Weapons’
Support from businesses and civilian institutions is helping Kyiv’s war effort and augmenting assistance from the West
By Georgi Kantchev | Photographs by Justyna Mielnikiewicz for The Wall Street Journal
March 13, 2022 7:00 am ET
When Russia began its invasion, Ukraine quickly switched into a wartime economy.
Companies from miners to property developers began making antitank fortifications. A women’s shoe brand started using its luxury Italian leather to make military boots. The government issued war bonds to finance the military.
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Yet another piece of sterling, globalist journalism from the WSJ. With this article they just made every 'plant' a military target.
Despite the Geneva Conventions, etc., Total war dictates that civilians are fair game under such circumstances. Just saying.
Dude, where’s my 14 billion dollars gone?
Russian military looks at every building, regardless of use, as something to be rubblized and made to bounce at least twice. Killing civilians is the point.
Thank you General.
This is SOP when any nation is at war. Why the hate?
Sweaters would be more useful than more weapons
So welcome, troll
The hate is on the tip of your tongue.
It’s a common tactic to use civilian buildings as human shields for military operations. Gullible people will believe whatever they see on CNN.
Somebody said this is the simplest way of waging a war minimally affected by factors such as low morale and inability to conduct complex operation.
I thought all sweaters were made in Chy-na. /s
Seriesly though, what equipment in a sweater factory could be used to make weapons?
Wow! The propaganda isn’t wasted on you. You really believe Russians are blood thirsty mass murders? What about us in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Exactly, unless a loom can be converted to a catapult?
What, is the sweater plant now knitting AK-47’s?
What a silly headline.
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After Ukranian grandmothers throw Molotov cocktails, their children shoot buttons at the Russians.
The propaganda isn’t wasted on you. You really believe Russians are blood thirsty mass murders? What about us in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Then you, sir, are either extremely naive or a Putinesta.
Russians bombed Aleppo and other towns flat - without regard to civilians, encouraged Assad to use chemical weapons. Yes, that’s how the Russians wage war. ‘Mass murder’, as you put it, is terror - a specialty of Spetsnaz detachments.
US military in Iraq and Afghan was under such strict ROEs that, at one point, they could not return fire until a) they had cleared it with a lawyer, b) had some troop shot. The US military, in both cases, went so far out of their way to avoid civilian casualties that it suffered unnecessary losses ; every move was about avoiding collateral damage.
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