LLM summary:
The Czech Republic’s transport minister warns of Russia’s attempts to disrupt European rail networks, suspected to be part of a campaign to destabilize the EU. Thousands of hacking attempts, including attacks on signalling systems, have been made since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While the Czech Republic has managed to defend against these attacks, concerns remain about potential accidents. Similar attacks have targeted railway companies in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Estonia. Prague is taking measures to strengthen cybersecurity and limit foreign involvement in critical infrastructure projects, advocating for more EU funding for transport infrastructure to address increasing demand and alleviate strain on conventional operators.
Good that I’m living in Germany where sabotaging the railway system would probably make it better.
All I have ever heard about Germany(…mostly) is that the public transport is ridiculously good with enviable punctuality.
Public transport? Yeah,in the bigger cities it’s decent, in the rural areas it is shit,though.
But railways? Absolute utter garbage and we have a worse on time performance than Ukraine… During the war.
Your and my definition of utter garbage differ wildly.
Are they late sometimes? yes. Do some trains end up being cancelled? Also yes.
But the same applies for cars. And even more so. I can not count the times where I have been late by over an hour when driving by car. With the trains is has been much less.
Utter garbage. Period.
I travel around 60k km per year, a fair share of it by train and have travelled about two thirds of the European countries by train.
And I have the luxury to use the Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian systems on a monthly basis - each of them is far far better.
Trains are the superior travel system. And if you are lucky you have an urban train system that works decently. But both long range as well as freight are a dumpster fire.
It is excellent by global standards, but has suffered in recent years from setbacks. So while it’s better than almost anywhere else (besides maybe Switzerland, Austria and Japan), from the perspective of someone living in Germany, it’s declined of late. I think this explains why you often hear negative comments from Germans but positive from others.
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Interesting history lesson.
Is the implication that Spitzspot is a fascist / communist and anti-Semite because they said Slava Ukrani?
They well may be, but that’s a big call based on the use of a phrase which has seen a rapid evolution in it’s usage in the last few years.
Are all Hindi and buddists and Jainists who continue to use the swastika as a part of their religious symbolism anti-Semite fascists as well?
Is Kim Jong Un a proponent of individual rights and liberties because he leads the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?
I’m guessing there’s a few Americanism’s that’d have the same complex history.
Slava Ukrani may have it’s origins in fascism, but right now across the english speaking world it is seen as a Clarion call championing the freedom of a democratic Ukraine against the current fascist Russian regime.
Words have more than one meaning, and those meanings evolve.
All attempts to whitewash banderite crap always resemble this good old comics.
Again, most of the people using this statement are using it in solidarity with Ukranian independence and are unaware of its origins.
Your comic is too simple to explain the complexity of this issue.
This was a strawman argument anyway.
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No shit. The world’s fascism problem never ended. Do you have any articles discussing fascism in Russia? Or America? Or the EU?
How do you feel about Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Is he an anti-Semite fascist too?
I’d love to hear your opinion on Putin.
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You and Putin really hate those Ukrainian Nazis. Will you help Putin or do you have bone spurs or something?
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Yes, Ukraine had a dangerous drift towards exclutionary Ukrainian nationalism for many years, which Russia promoted by igniting the conflict through their use of paramilitary forces in Donetsk and Lugansk, which made it great for Ukrainian supremacists and Russian supremacists to fester in both sides.
Despite that, Ukraine elected Zelensky, a Russian speaking president who spoke both Ukrainian and Russian during his inaugural speech as symbolism that it was time for their country to reconcile itself with its minorities.
But this fact is usually omitted in Russian propaganda, since it’s so devastating to their narrative.
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How come the only evidence Russian water carriers have for the invasion of sovereign Ukraine is 100 years old?
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I don’t understand how these kinds of attacks aren’t an act of war.
It cannot be declared an act of war if the target country isn’t willing to bring consequences on the aggressor.
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Oh great, the comprador galaxy brains finally got an ideal excuse for railways being rotten by thatcherite neoliberal reforms: blame Russia! And looking at comments, raccoon brain already eat this.