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[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP..." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence.." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany..." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary..." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end", ">\n\nHow would not helping Ukraine defend themselves lead to peace?\nSo if Ukraine doesn't surrender then they're warmongers? Nice logic 🙄" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end", ">\n\nHow would not helping Ukraine defend themselves lead to peace?\nSo if Ukraine doesn't surrender then they're warmongers? Nice logic 🙄", ">\n\nWhy not go all in and send a T-34?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end", ">\n\nHow would not helping Ukraine defend themselves lead to peace?\nSo if Ukraine doesn't surrender then they're warmongers? Nice logic 🙄", ">\n\nWhy not go all in and send a T-34?", ">\n\nI'm waiting for them to get to T-800" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end", ">\n\nHow would not helping Ukraine defend themselves lead to peace?\nSo if Ukraine doesn't surrender then they're warmongers? Nice logic 🙄", ">\n\nWhy not go all in and send a T-34?", ">\n\nI'm waiting for them to get to T-800", ">\n\nHow do you know they haven't?? The T-800 was the first truly successful Infiltrator unit." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts.", ">\n\nTo know how extremely anti communist eastern europe is?", ">\n\nTo be condescending about an obvious joke", ">\n\nHope that Signed T-72 will hit putin someday", ">\n\nPutin can be the new Tank Man.\nExcept that this time, we'll all be cheering for the tanks.", ">\n\nThis war has been the best PR campaign for NATO since inception.", ">\n\nOriginal plans were to air-drop them over Ukraine, equipping them with large rubber bladders underneath that would spread the impact with the ground over multiple, successively smaller \"hops\". The plan was eventually shelved because it turns out nobody wants a bounced Czech.", ">\n\nI for one enjoyed this one.", ">\n\nI feel like everyone commenting here is oblivious to how this whole thing transpired", ">\n\nSo, Czech marks the spot!", ">\n\nGive it a kiss for good luck too 🇺🇦", ">\n\nOh ... yeah", ">\n\nLegendary", ">\n\nKilroy was here!!!", ">\n\nI’m hyped for this!", ">\n\nGood. Now can we get the rest of the west to send their tanks now?\nRussia is training about 100k troops in Siberia and Ukraine has been losing ground (minimally, but consistently) for over a month now. Can we just arm them to the teeth..today?", ">\n\nIt would make sense to ‘properly’ arm the Ukrainians - we don’t want them to loose, we don’t want this war to become very drawn out - as that would favour Russia, giving them time to ramp up production of new weapons.\nWe should be proving them with sufficient quantities of very effective weaponry,m.\nThe west will need to start significantly ramping up their production of weaponry, not only for Ukraine, but also for the west, to bring their own weaponry up to scratch in terms of numbers.\nBecause one way or another, they are going to need them.\nThe Ukrainians need to weapons to start hitting Russian troops harder and in greater numbers. And to keep Russian supply routes closed.\nRussian troops and equipment and supplies, should not be making it through to the front lines.", ">\n\nYESSSS\nSEND THE TANKS", ">\n\n„This machine kills fascists.“", ">\n\nI think the Ukrainians will use the T-72 the right way, though such a tank is pretty dated", ">\n\nIt's not a stock T72, the Czech factory specializes in modernizing it with new armor, optics, and sensors. It brings it up to 3rd gen specs.", ">\n\nPlus historically, Czech’s are some of the finest engineers, fabricators and precision manufacturers in the world so it ain’t going to be some janky lashed together affair", ">\n\nWell... we used to. Not much of that industry left here. Hope it will get incentives to be restarted now. We used to have our own tanks and planes.", ">\n\nNot much industry left? Industry accounts for 30% of GDP...", ">\n\nOf THAT industry. Most of the industry we have now is foreign, not domestic. The only domestic brand now is Skoda and even that is domestic in name really.", ">\n\nŠkoda, Praga, Tatra, Aero Vodochody, Ferona, Třinecké železárny, Česká zbrojovka, Bohemia Crystal and many many more. Yes, some of them have foreign owners some of them don't. Why does it matter? They still have R&D and production in Czech Republic (including Škoda).\nFor example in 2021 Česká zbrojovka acquired Colt. Did it change Colt to Czech company? Kofola is owned by Greek family. Does that make Kofola Greek? Not really... \nIf it is developed and produced domestically it is domestic product. Nationality of the owner does not matter.", ">\n\nWith Skoda it matters as it is in many cases German R&D branded with Czech logo. \nAbout CZ, yeah I am kinda afraid of CZ nosediving in R&D now. I can easily see CZ stopping development and just adopting Colt's patterns. I doubt Colt will be gung-ho about spending so much on making another P10, BREN or Skorpion Evo over a \"yet another AR system\". CZ made BREN to compete for our Army and the basically fixed all the issues our army had with competition where if I recall correctly FN and Colt also were. Colt would be much happier if we just bought ARs. \nSo yeah, it does matter. \nBut fairly big % are companies that are not domestic. Companies like Hyundai, Bosch, Foxconn etc. They do no R&D here, just manufacturing. \nThis is why I am happy we have people like Prusa and his 3D printers. We need more companies like that but sadly there just is not environment that would cultivate it well.", ">\n\nŠkoda Auto still has their own R&D and is not exact copy of Volkswagen. \nI don't dare to predict CZ and Colt relations inside group, but I don't think it will damage quality of CZ designs. \nYes a lot of industry is owned by foreign companies. But most those companies have both R&D and production based here (including mentioned Bosch). \nIf the research, development and production is made locally I see it as local product of local industry no matter what brand name they slap on it before shipping.", ">\n\nI love how the whole world can get behind a mutual hate for Russia.", ">\n\nAll I got was Iraq.", ">\n\nOne whole tank, financed by public initiative. Gee thank.", ">\n\nIt is 120 tanks.", ">\n\nwholesome big chungus moment 🥰", ">\n\nBig Krtkus", ">\n\n\"To Russia, with Love\"", ">\n\nSeems about right for a country who aren’t even in this war", ">\n\nSome Russian is going to get killed by a tank signed by the Czech PM", ">\n\nGood kiss from Czechoslavakia 1968", ">\n\nMan, Czech out all these puns!", ">\n\nCool move, Pjtr!", ">\n\nI hope someone was there to certify the signature. Otherwise, the tank will lose value.", ">\n\nThere is photo evidence..", ">\n\nFull send", ">\n\nTo russia. With love", ">\n\nMany hurt Russian feelings", ">\n\nCzech yourself before you wreck yourself. Because, t-72 bullets are bad for your health.", ">\n\nThey are called ‘shells’ - much larger calibre than bullets.", ">\n\nGreat hopefully cruiser missile's soon so we can flattened the Kremlin", ">\n\nIt's a collector tank now don't you know? Lol", ">\n\nNon fungible tank?", ">\n\nLove it lol", ">\n\n\nromanticize it\n\nthis makes the west more committed, which makes it end faster, which means less people die", ">\n\nThis is why the west should be ramping things up. - Because that is what Russia is going to try to do.\nIf Ukraine can stop all new troops and supplies from reaching the front lines of even better from entering Ukrainian territory, then they will be able to beat the existing ones there back.", ">\n\nRussia is really losing on the friendship tally atm", ">\n\nThis is grotesque", ">\n\nTanks a lot", ">\n\n\"Czech yourself, before you wreck yourself\"", ">\n\nthis is an extra personal \"fuck you\"", ">\n\nWow good on you. Really did something there", ">\n\nAm I missing something? Aren't T-72 tanks built by Russia? If that's the case, talk about irony.\nAlso, didn't Ukraine destroy all the Russian tanks because they have a critical design flaw with where the ammunition is stored?", ">\n\nThe T-72 is a Soviet design, built and used by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It is now used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries, including the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\nMany Soviet weapons projects involved Ukrainians on some level (though the Russians will often take the whole credit) so while it could be said it's a Russian design, it's likely there was Ukrainian involvement.\nAs for the design flaws, the T-72 has quite a few actually. No tank design, even the newest ones, is perfect. The danger however kan be mitigated if you know about it, largely by tactics, which is a big problem for the Russians so far in this war. 🤔", ">\n\nTruth!", ">\n\nCool but these were paid for by America", ">\n\nAnd? They were produced in the Czech Republic.", ">\n\n\nrefurbished", ">\n\nMeanwhile in Germany...", ">\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.", ">\n\n\nI don't think any nation has delivered non-Soviet MBTs.\n\nWell that's because Leopard 2 is the single most suitable type to send.\nAbrams is too costly to operate(fuel & logistics wise). Leclercs & Challengers(or even Arietes) were never built in sufficient numbers and their mfg. lines are now shut down.\n\nGermans sent heavy artillery, anti air vehicles and will probably provide APCs soon.\n\nExactly, so what's the deal with not sending Leopards?", ">\n\nGood act.", ">\n\nPersonally, I think our leaders should be striving for peace not more destruction\nThis doesn't seem to interest anyone though\nNote: Interesting how a demand for peace gets downvoted, but sadly predictable.", ">\n\nIf you allow aggression from a dictatorial state to go unchecked, you only invite MORE aggression on their part. Resistance early is a way to lessen the total destruction. \nLook at how the appeasement of the Germans at the beginning of WW2 by people who 'just wanted peace' worked out.", ">\n\nThat's true, but who are we appointing to judge who's the dictator and who's not?\nPutin, obviously, is. But, Zelensky signed a law whereby the government could block any news website? Is that not dictatorial?\nOr, do we just allow it because we've seen him on TV and he looks like a cool guy? Slippery slope.\nPeace is always the one answer.", ">\n\nZelensky was elected in an open election, as was recognized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Putin puts any opposition leaders in jail.\nDo you have a citation for your claim about Zelensky's law? The verstion that actually passed, not previous drafts that got modified.", ">\n\ndo prdele", ">\n\nMust be Jack Ryan season 4.", ">\n\nUnto them we send only…T-72.\nmetal starts shredding", ">\n\nPffft a 9.7 BR T-72B vs an 8.3 BR T-62? Russia doesn’t stand a chance!", ">\n\nTho Russia has premium account", ">\n\nCzech Please!", ">\n\nSomeone send some truck nuts that'll fit the diameter of a T-72 and we'll find a Russian president to fit on the end.", ">\n\nDear Diary...", ">\n\nNow I feel like the Uncle who got a kid socks for Christmas. Sure they need the Bradleys and Patriot systems but on the battlefield and music world heavy metal rocks the hardest.", ">\n\nHe’s enchanting the barrel so it has a +2 missile impact.", ">\n\nDamn, that one's gonna fetch quite the price when they sell it on the black market.", ">\n\nAfter the war - it can go into Ukraines war museum.", ">\n\nLooks like the world is trying to just keep the war going instead of trying to get it to end", ">\n\nHow would not helping Ukraine defend themselves lead to peace?\nSo if Ukraine doesn't surrender then they're warmongers? Nice logic 🙄", ">\n\nWhy not go all in and send a T-34?", ">\n\nI'm waiting for them to get to T-800", ">\n\nHow do you know they haven't?? The T-800 was the first truly successful Infiltrator unit.", ">\n\nNope. Actually, 45 T-72 tanks are being refurbished and upgraded before being sent to Ukraine. This one, apparently, is the first of the lot to be sent." ]

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[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country." ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot" ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot", ">\n\nThey obviously are. You can not see a state where statewide offices are right around 50% party split in vote (with about +/- two percentage points basically\nbut somehow one party (Republicans) nearly pull off a 2/3 super-majority in both state houses without egregiously gerrymandered districts to implement it." ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot", ">\n\nThey obviously are. You can not see a state where statewide offices are right around 50% party split in vote (with about +/- two percentage points basically\nbut somehow one party (Republicans) nearly pull off a 2/3 super-majority in both state houses without egregiously gerrymandered districts to implement it.", ">\n\n\nOn most questions, Dorow read from a prepared script and did not answer fully, saying the issues, including election maps and gun control might be before the court.\n\nLooks like the right wing darling is not ready for prime time. Needs more time to memorize things like her values and her judicial philosophy." ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot", ">\n\nThey obviously are. You can not see a state where statewide offices are right around 50% party split in vote (with about +/- two percentage points basically\nbut somehow one party (Republicans) nearly pull off a 2/3 super-majority in both state houses without egregiously gerrymandered districts to implement it.", ">\n\n\nOn most questions, Dorow read from a prepared script and did not answer fully, saying the issues, including election maps and gun control might be before the court.\n\nLooks like the right wing darling is not ready for prime time. Needs more time to memorize things like her values and her judicial philosophy.", ">\n\nSomeone should have asked her what she thinks the worst Supreme Court decision is (archived)\n\nWorst Wisconsin or US Supreme Court decision -- Lawrence v. Texas\n...a prime example of judicial activisim at its worst. In Lawrence, a majority of the court went well beyond the four corners of the U.S. Constitution to declare a new constitutional right. The decision cites to the European Convention on Human Rights and an advisory committee to the British Parliament as legal justification for establishing the right to extramarital sexual acts – a right found no where in the text of the U.S. Constitution. This decision was then used by the Massachusetts Supreme Court as legal justification in mandating the issuance of same sex marriage licenses under the Massachusetts Constitution\n[Bolding and italics in original]\n\nNot the Dred Scott case that said fugitive slaves had to be kidnapped and returned to slavery, not the Korematsu case that said interment camps were OK, not the Screws case that said a sheriff beating someone to death was ok unless it could be shown that sheriff intended to deprive that person of their civil rights, not the McClesky case that said mountains of statistical proof of people of different races being treated differently by the law doesn't mean anything unless a government official straight up says, \"we're doing this because we are racist,\" - no, it's the one that said two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home can do what they want is the one she has a problem with" ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot", ">\n\nThey obviously are. You can not see a state where statewide offices are right around 50% party split in vote (with about +/- two percentage points basically\nbut somehow one party (Republicans) nearly pull off a 2/3 super-majority in both state houses without egregiously gerrymandered districts to implement it.", ">\n\n\nOn most questions, Dorow read from a prepared script and did not answer fully, saying the issues, including election maps and gun control might be before the court.\n\nLooks like the right wing darling is not ready for prime time. Needs more time to memorize things like her values and her judicial philosophy.", ">\n\nSomeone should have asked her what she thinks the worst Supreme Court decision is (archived)\n\nWorst Wisconsin or US Supreme Court decision -- Lawrence v. Texas\n...a prime example of judicial activisim at its worst. In Lawrence, a majority of the court went well beyond the four corners of the U.S. Constitution to declare a new constitutional right. The decision cites to the European Convention on Human Rights and an advisory committee to the British Parliament as legal justification for establishing the right to extramarital sexual acts – a right found no where in the text of the U.S. Constitution. This decision was then used by the Massachusetts Supreme Court as legal justification in mandating the issuance of same sex marriage licenses under the Massachusetts Constitution\n[Bolding and italics in original]\n\nNot the Dred Scott case that said fugitive slaves had to be kidnapped and returned to slavery, not the Korematsu case that said interment camps were OK, not the Screws case that said a sheriff beating someone to death was ok unless it could be shown that sheriff intended to deprive that person of their civil rights, not the McClesky case that said mountains of statistical proof of people of different races being treated differently by the law doesn't mean anything unless a government official straight up says, \"we're doing this because we are racist,\" - no, it's the one that said two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home can do what they want is the one she has a problem with", ">\n\nI like Everett Mitchell too (the other non-idiot candidate for justice) but Protasiewicz was clearly the brightest legal mind and best speaker of the 4 candidates at the forum." ]

[ "Most important election in the country this year -- Wisconsin Supreme Court, 10 year term, election is April 4, 2023.\nFinally strike down the worst gerrymander in the country.", ">\n\nDon't forget the primary on February 21, candidates need to be one of the top two finishers in that to appear on the April 4 ballot", ">\n\nThey obviously are. You can not see a state where statewide offices are right around 50% party split in vote (with about +/- two percentage points basically\nbut somehow one party (Republicans) nearly pull off a 2/3 super-majority in both state houses without egregiously gerrymandered districts to implement it.", ">\n\n\nOn most questions, Dorow read from a prepared script and did not answer fully, saying the issues, including election maps and gun control might be before the court.\n\nLooks like the right wing darling is not ready for prime time. Needs more time to memorize things like her values and her judicial philosophy.", ">\n\nSomeone should have asked her what she thinks the worst Supreme Court decision is (archived)\n\nWorst Wisconsin or US Supreme Court decision -- Lawrence v. Texas\n...a prime example of judicial activisim at its worst. In Lawrence, a majority of the court went well beyond the four corners of the U.S. Constitution to declare a new constitutional right. The decision cites to the European Convention on Human Rights and an advisory committee to the British Parliament as legal justification for establishing the right to extramarital sexual acts – a right found no where in the text of the U.S. Constitution. This decision was then used by the Massachusetts Supreme Court as legal justification in mandating the issuance of same sex marriage licenses under the Massachusetts Constitution\n[Bolding and italics in original]\n\nNot the Dred Scott case that said fugitive slaves had to be kidnapped and returned to slavery, not the Korematsu case that said interment camps were OK, not the Screws case that said a sheriff beating someone to death was ok unless it could be shown that sheriff intended to deprive that person of their civil rights, not the McClesky case that said mountains of statistical proof of people of different races being treated differently by the law doesn't mean anything unless a government official straight up says, \"we're doing this because we are racist,\" - no, it's the one that said two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home can do what they want is the one she has a problem with", ">\n\nI like Everett Mitchell too (the other non-idiot candidate for justice) but Protasiewicz was clearly the brightest legal mind and best speaker of the 4 candidates at the forum.", ">\n\nWhen you can't win: Gerrymander, Jury rig, cause doubt, repeat as necessary. That's the only republican thought there is." ]

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[ "I can see why things seem bleak, but as far as data goes, quality of life has pretty much been improving for the past few hundred years" ]