• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    That’s unfair. The Russian navy gained a brand new submarine during the war with Ukraine.

    The Moskva.

    Plus they have the world’s most expensive barge, Admiral Kuznetsov.

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      “The world’s most expensive barge” isn’t nearly the flex Putin wants it to be. Hell, I work retail. Gimme a pricing gun, and I can sell you the world’s most expensive anything.

      Plus, their new sub might be really cool, but unless it’s in the Black Sea, it’s not doing shit to Ukraine.

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        You’re missing the mild humor. The Admiral Kuznetsov is an aircraft carrier for legal purposes a missile frigate that has regularly failed to run under its own power.

        For forty years.

        It is towed from dry dock to dry dock.

        No better metaphor for Russia.