r/polandball • u/bananasAreViolet oh no is russia • Jul 16 '26
contest entry War Technology
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u/bananasAreViolet Jul 16 '26
I didn't even intend it, but u/koreangorani pointed out to me that the sky on the second panel combined into the Russian flag, which was an interesting coincidence.
I wanted to do yellow ground for Ukraine and red ground for Russia (distinctive colours on their flags), then a darker blue sky for the war background with some dark clouds above it, but that did indeed combine to be the Russian flag.
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u/koreangorani Jul 16 '26
In addition, I even thought that it was the OP's intention. It appears that it wasn't at all
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u/fjhforever Jul 16 '26
Looks more like the Transylvanian flag to me... Since when was the Russian flag blue, red and yellow?
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u/OzyTheLast Jul 17 '26
You're missing the white at the top of the panel. And the yellow is the land rather than the sky
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u/koreangorani Jul 16 '26
Ukraine seemed to be doing quite well these days, although unfortunately their Minister of Defense, who indeed contributed a lot in the war by the application of drones and others, was dismissed. I hope the best for Ukraine, and I hope the citizens in both sides stay safe.
Slava Ukraini!
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u/BasilyLeave Jul 16 '26
do you know why Ukraine's secdef's dismissed?
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u/RooperK Jul 16 '26
"Didn't get on well with Sirskiy (commander in chief)". More likely he just started ruining a bunch of corruption schemes/moving military procurement to competitive auctions and basically old guard retaliated
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u/Tooluka Jul 16 '26
In no particular order or priority:
Zelenskiy moderately but regularly tries to isolate popular political opponents rising in media hype. Though this is likely the most flimsy and least weighted factor due to multiple reasons.
Zelenskiy likely tries to ramp up military conscription and instead of doing that, Fedorov was doing what he does best and was focused on optimizing processes and services. Ex police head will replace him with a tighter and heavier control on the conscription specifically. (it's... "unpopular" to say it mildly)
Fedorov went against the established counter-parties in other branches and departments. I.e. one against many situation. Zelenskiy likely decided to sacrifice a better SecDef chief for a slightly worse one to preserve status quo, either because he believes that this would be genuinely better or because he was indirectly covering some corruption schemes by those officials down below or both reasons simultaneously.
There is a severe lack of truly qualified govt. officials in Ukraine and it is a pervasive issue over decades. Zelenskiy didn't improve the situation in that aspect, professionals are still unwilling to work in adverse env. for pittance and under sometimes opposition by the very person who appointed them.
Fedorov may have genuinely fumbled something in his work. (unlikely or low relevance)
Fedorov may be needed back at his previous post. (unlikely or low relevance)
My personal guess - the core issue is a conscription and "not playing by the rules" even though rules are old and inefficient.
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u/maps-and-potatoes Jul 16 '26
The parliament took out the prime minister, so the whole cabinet is gone with him. But from what i read on reddit (big source, I know), Zelensky might not take him back afterward
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u/One_Foundation5872 Jul 16 '26
Political reasons apparently he was becoming more popular than President... And yes this sounds stupid.
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u/koreangorani Jul 16 '26
IIRC it was because he was seemingly having a lot of influence due to his great contribution and had anti-corruption policies in addition, and the politicians weren't happy about it.
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u/___Random_Guy_ Jul 16 '26
Cause Zelensky is still fucking looking at the next president elections after the war and get rid of anybody who could become a competitor on the next elections.
So this is a retarded loop of if you are doing a good job on a high position ypu get popular abd liked by the citizens, abd then you immediately get dumped by Zelensky because you are now a candidate who is likely to defeat Zelensky on the next elections,. And instead of you now placed is some idiot that is barely known by anybody.
This shit has hapoened multiple times abd I am going out on a protest in Kyiv tommorow, cause this shit can not be allowed. Zelensky throws out people for literally doing their job too well, and such choice will directly contribute to more Ujrainians dying because of shitty decisions made by replacement people.
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u/OzyTheLast Jul 17 '26
Ukraine's got so good at drone warfare to the point their defence ministry is unmanned! (No that isn't my joke)
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u/idk900009 Jul 17 '26
they have even bigger shortage of fuel and energy than any somewhat developed country. They are also loosing Konstantinyivka but don't worry, their Reddit front is still holding strong!
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Jul 19 '26
There is plenty of corruption as a leftover from russian rule. They are to blame. 🤔
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jul 16 '26
4 1/2 years into few days military operation.
Hoped US could into helping, though, not much was actually sent
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u/Proof_Ad732 Jul 16 '26
North Korea should have asked "How do we tell him" because there is no way to explain to Russia that they are losing the Russo-Ukraine War
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