It takes 400 companies >2 years to build a Patriot missile. Perhaps this is why USA suddenly gave up in Iran.
Incompetent manufacturing will cause us to lose future wars too. Boom is building vertically integrated factories that can do in 24h what otherwise takes years. 🧵
People keep asking what the Soviet occupation actually cost the Baltic states. You don't have to imagine it. There's a control group, and it's sitting right across the gulf.
In 1938 — the last full year before the war — Estonia and Finland had essentially the same GDP per capita. Two small nations, same sea, neighboring languages, the same starting line. By some rankings Estonia was even slightly ahead. Heritage FoundationX
Then history split in two.
Finland fought the Winter War and kept its independence. Estonia was occupied, annexed, and folded into a planned economy. Same decade, opposite roads.
Fifty years later:
🇫🇮 Finland — ~$24,000 per person (1992)
🇪🇪 Estonia — ~$2,800
An eightfold gap — from an identical starting point. Not because Finns worked harder. Not because Estonians were less capable. One country was free to build. The other was told what to build, for whom, and at what loss.
The wages say it even more cleanly: in 1938 Estonian purchasing power was just 4% below Finland's; by 1988 it was 42% below. That cliff is the occupation, drawn in numbers.
And here's the part that ends the argument. Set free for a single generation, Estonia has already clawed back to roughly four-fifths of Finnish income. A gap that took 50 years to open is closing in 30. That's the proof it was never about us — it was the system imposed on us.
There's a cost that never shows up in GDP, either. No occupation means no cattle cars to Siberia. No murdered and exiled intelligentsia. No decades of settlers moved in to outnumber the natives — which means the very "Russian-speaking minority" Moscow is now parading before the ICJ wouldn't exist at anything like that scale. The grievance Russia is litigating is one it manufactured itself.
So no — we don't wonder what we lost. We can see it from the ferry.
And free at last, it's what we're finally becoming again. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹
Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.
Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD
Those responsible for these crimes can still walk into an European consulate in Moscow tomorrow and obtain a Schengen visa. It is astonishing that this continues to be tolerated. Estonia has called for a ban on granting entry to 🇷🇺 combatants into the European Union.
🇪🇪🚆 Rail Baltica construction is progressing across Estonia, with over 100 km of the mainline currently under construction between Tallinn and Pärnu.
Across the Baltics, more than 40% of the Rail Baltica mainline is already under construction or construction ready.
📍 Latest progress updates:
https://t.co/vYzo0dlySY
📸 Photos: Rail Baltic Estonia, Mihkel Notta
#RailBaltica #Estonia #CEFTransport
Mu daamid ja härrad.
Lubage tutvustada — uus kastirattaekspert, Lasnamäe linnaosa vanem Miroslav Berezovski.
„Ma ei kujuta endale hästi ette noort ema kahe lapsega — üks on vaja viia lasteaeda, teine kooli. Mis see lahendus siis on? Stardib hommikul kodu eest kastirattaga?“
NEW | Wind and solar just produced more electricity than gas globally for the first month on record
In April, they produced 531 TWh (22%), compared with 477 TWh (20%) for gas.
Wind and solar generation has more than doubled in the last five years.