I don’t know if I should be taking this post, concerning a letter from a Ukraine official to the Russian Defense Minister on various bits of sub-standard military gear found in Ukraine on Russian tanks, from Irenaeus on Daily Kos seriously:
In particular, the protection of Russian tanks T-72 and T-80 made from cardboard egg trays. Without a doubt, these means of protecting military equipment deserve to become a separate assessment factor in the PowerIndex when forming the Global Firepower rating of the strongest armies in the world.
There are corroborating pictures.
And they remind me of my school lessons in High School, when they claimed Russian arms merchants of World War I were delivering arms and munitions that not only didn’t work, but couldn’t work – replacement of gunpowder with sand, for example – all due, again, to corruption at the highest levels.
History rhymes.
