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Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you buy a drone for lets say 1000$ from Xiaomi via AliBaba, 100$ of those go to AliBaba maybe 1$ goes to Russia. from the 900$ left for Xiaomi, 600 are gone for the production. 300 left, 3 go to Russia. 4$ for Russia. But if this drone helps invalidate only one russian soldier, that 4$ are easily worth 100000$. If it helps invalidate a tank, it goes to the millions. Thats easily worth it if there is no alternative

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have also seen people say "I buy from Amazon, because I don't want to support Alibaba"... like dude where do you think "VURUU" brand you just bought from sources all their shit from?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean VRCUUC isn’t a homegrown American brand?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Where the fuck is the money going to Russia from?