> Romania is spending a lot of cash on defense measures for drones and other armament

Some of this is going to be stalled - Romania was planning on deploying the Iron Dome [0] and Spyder [1] for AD which was going to be co-produced by Volkswagen in their German factories that were on the chopping block, but Qatar (Volkswagen's largest minority shareholder with 17% voting share) blocked that deal [2].

[0] - https://www.jpost.com/international/article-861770

[1] - https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sy1n3pcfzx

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-10/qatar-blo...

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rjzzleep 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Iron Dome is designed for protecting from home made rockets made with dung from the Gaza Strip. And according to research the main reason for the low casualty rate is actually the early warning. How exactly is it supposed to help with real missiles and drones?

How do these scams keep happening? Why doesn't anyone care how their taxpayer money is spent?

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alephnerd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> home made rockets made with dung from the Gaza Strip

Homemade bottle rockets are a 2000s era Israel thing. Now it's Ababeel, Mohajer, Shahed, Arash and other Iranian drones deployed in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. The same kinds of drones being used in Ukraine and operated by Iranian personnel [0][1][2] that are also the same make as the drones shot down in Romania as well as Poland.

Ukraine also gave us intel linking Iranian strike capacity with Russia [3] and Russia has previously offered to stop giving Iran geoint and strike intel in return for the US stopping geoint and strike intel sharing with Ukraine, which the US rejected [4].

[0] - https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/03/10/8024839/

[1] - https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/07/7375314/

[2] - https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/23/7373119/

[3] - https://xcancel.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2081074329115078813#m

[4] - https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-offers-stop-intel-iran...

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iwontberude 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For me, I just hope the country collapses and we spend the next ten years prosecuting everyone who caused this outcome and overthrowing the existing system. It’s inevitable with how brain dead leadership is throughout government and corporations. The relentless greedy morons have taken the yoke.

	▲	dragonwriter 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If the country has to survive and recover rather quickly, not collapse, for your prosecution scenario to be likely and effective against any significant share of the people who caused this.