Tar_Alcaran

Can we just say lots of staff died? Putin killed 7000 of them, let’s go!

BYD cars are budget, but solid.

They’re covering up dozens of billions of debt, despite even more government subsidies… But the cars are solid

The Kia EV3 and Picanto are pretty popular in the Netherlands nowadays, which are basically just a Hyundai in disguise.

They usually compare it to cars of a similar size, instead of similar price. and yeah, when you’re buying a car of the same size that’s 5k cheaper, you’re getting less car.

Making the economic numbers look good is really easy, you just need to do two things:

1 - spend a fuckton of government debt on buying shit.

2 - lie about the numbers.

Oil is Russia number 1 export. There’s a LOT of oil infrastructure.

And while they may be Russians, the vast majority of oil infrastructure is metal pipes and tubes, and big metal barrels. You can repair most of it with metal plates and welders, and Russians are pretty famous for bodging shitty equipment back into life. Not the important bits, but the important expensive bits are also easier to defend.