• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Fun fact: during the early part of WWII, when Germany had signed a series of economic and political pacts with the Soviet Union (and before Germany invaded the USSR, obviously), they shipped various weapons systems and other advanced military technologies to Russia as part of the deals. One of these shipments included advanced 37mm anti-aircraft guns and turrets that had originally been earmarked for installation on the Bismarck, which was instead equipped with older, less effective guns. When she made her one and only sortie in 1941, she was fatally crippled by actual biplanes.

    The moral of the story is: “don’t give shit to Russia”.

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    24 hours ago

    Jail the CEO and those that signed off on this or participated in any way. A fine won’t do shit, that’ll be cost of business.

  • Roman the last@api-dev.rabotaem.app
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    Beyond extreme populism. Doesn’t it bother anyone that Siemens turbines are being supplied to Russia through China for billions of dollars? And what are we going to do about it now?

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      8 hours ago

      Continue as always. Germany wont let ethics or even their own military interests get in the way of their business interests.

      Krupp supplied weapons to Poland before the Nazis invaded.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontron

          The corporate group was originally headquartered in Augsburg and consisted of the Kontron Europe GmbH, with its main sites in Ismaning, Augsburg, Deggendorf, and Saarbrücken (other locations included San Diego, Fremont, California, Montreal, Plzeň, Toulon, Bangalore, Taipei, Tokyo and Beijing). Kontron acquired Dolch in 2005.

          In August 2017, Kontron was merged into Austrian-based S&T,[7] and was renamed Kontron Group on 1 June 2022, with its corporate headquarters in Linz

          I think it is legitimate to refer to it as a German company, with most of its production still in Germany. You are right that the group is legally headquartered in Austria.

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      19 hours ago

      Jail the CEO and bankrupt the company into non-existence like we should have after they built the gas chambers in WW2?