papperger

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If you ever wondered how German car makers drove themselves into the ditch and how could German industrialists and the German governing parties they own ever be so arrogant to think China would never, ever meet them and then overtake them up the value chain, here's another titan of German industry doing his best to enlighten us:

#Germany #Deutschland #Papperger #Rheinmetall #Ukraine #drones #innovation #TheKitchenPartTho #NotAllMenButAlwaysMen

Screenshot from The Atlantic:

"Ukraine now makes more drones than any democracy in the world, and wealthy nations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are lining up to buy them. But when I asked the CEO of Rheinmetall what that could mean for his business model, he bristled. "Who is the biggest drone producer in Ukraine?" Papperger demanded. I listed the ones that I had visited in Kyiv two weeks earlier, Fire Point and Skyfall, which make hundreds of thousands of drones a month for the Ukrainian armed forces. "It's Ukrainian housewives," Papperger said of their factories. "They have 3-D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones," he said. "This is not innovation."

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