Knockoff Iranian Drone Sold on Alibaba Was Meant for War, Documents Show
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The drone, advertised as being for survey mapping, is described in documents as a "suicide UAV used on the battlefield." The supplier said it was destined for Ukraine.
  • sramder@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    I like that Vice dusted of the Motherboard brand for this story… also, wren’t they moving their main offices to SA and becoming a lifestyle brand like a year and a half ago?

    • dmnknf@lemmy.ml
      107·
      11 months ago

      Your comment is so racist that you should be banned… China registered more patents than any other country for the last couple of years. China is the most innovative country in the world right now…

        • dmnknf@lemmy.ml
          61·
          11 months ago

          Okay, so what what you are trying to say is China is not using their full potential, in this case okay, there is a good discussion to be made about this.

          The way you said just looked like the racist and orientalist comment a lot of westerns always parrot when it comes to discussing China saying Chinese people can’t innovate because of their race…

  • intelshillOP
    1234·
    11 months ago

    See, when China sells weapons to Ukraine it’s just business, but when China sells broadcasting equipment to Russia it’s clearly China bad and China sponsoring Russia’s war effort.

    • NOSin@lemmy.world
      178·
      11 months ago

      Even if your point is right, which I don’t know and don’t care, why even try to make it ?

      What discussion are you furthering with that ?

      Why spend the effort ?

    • Ooops@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I can actually argue both. Selling weapons to Russia, because they use them for a war of aggression, is amoral, selling weapons to Russia and Ukraine isn’t better as that’s plain war profiteering.

      (Theoretically) selling to Ukraine only, would only be slightly better (at least not supporting an aggressor also known to commit war crimes regularly) but still amoral profiteering from war.

      In short: It is not about China selling weapons or China in general, it’s about their position and reasons to do so.

    • nekandro@lemmy.ml
      88·
      11 months ago

      Lmao the hypocrisy in people downvoting this comment when they simultaneously complain every time a Chinese car or DJI camera ends up in Russia.

      If you weren’t going to complain about the US being the sole supplier of the materials needed for Japan’s invasion of China (and the ensuing massacres, mass rapes, etc.), shut the fuck up.