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Russian missiles used in Kyiv attack contained over 100 Western components, FT says
(www.pravda.com.ua)
Arms dealers don't care who they make money from.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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During WW2 the Remington company was selling ammunition to the U.S. and also the German Nazis.
The Remington family has generational wealth today from selling bullets to kill U.S. soldiers. The Bush family, who had 2 people as presidents, are also married into the Remington family.
I mean... That's gotta be like the 643rd most objectionable thing done by a US company against itself of its allies in ww2
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I honestly find it unconscionable that any company would do trade with Russia or it proxies. "Oh yeah, it's bad that Russia is killing all those civillians with our components, but you can't expect us to drop our trade "partners", can you?"
I mean it isn't like some guy shows up and says their Russian and looking to buy missile parts. They do it through intermediaries. While it's possible to trace parts back through the supply chain it's not super simple when a micro chip can be used for many different applications.
That's why being devoid of conscience is so good for profits
Money is all they hear, nothing else
The SR-71, designed largely to spy on Soviet countries, was made of titanium sourced from Soviet countries.
In the decades since then I would wager the arms race against "straw buyers" has favored the buyers. Especially when it's just bare microchips. It's not a dinky Polish auto-repair shop ordering five thousand Tomahawk missile nose cones. Some of these smuggling operations happen by accident, because the chip someone needs happens to be used in a fancy toy car. Or if you want to get conspiratorial, a toy car can be designed to use any chip in a missile, without raising a single eyebrow.
Amateur rocketry enthusiasts have run into tracking problems because commercial GPS and motion-tracking hardware is designed to shut off past a certain speed. That's how mundane and widespread some of these weapon components are: if you can jailbreak a TomTom and a Wiimote, you're left making the part that explodes slowly and the part that explodes quickly.
And drones are still scarier.
The reality is slightly more complicated, but not a whole lot
Reality is like that.
*Kiev
loser
I have him tagged as ".ml", tells you everything really (:
Ahhh, is that why he has all those red exclamation points by his name