Well, as Comrade Zelda might say:

Good.

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    11 months ago

    Not like it would be all that hard to find somebody willing to slowly loose (ie, sell) arms of Chinese manufacture to Western military and intelligence agencies for just this type of PSYOP.

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      11 months ago

      Or, you know, china sold to Iran, or another third party which then smuggled them into Gaza. Do people think Gaza is home cooking rpg-7s? I doubt they can manufacture much more than a sten gun.

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        they have a surprising amount of production down in those tunnels. We’ve already seen videos demonstrating the CNC guys making a sniper rifle and explosives experts making a homegrown PG-7VR

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          Forgotten Weapons analyzed the video and said it was fake. It’s possible that they didn’t want to expose their process since we know they’re actually capable of home grown weapons.

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          11 months ago

          Well that’s good to hear. but in any case, I’m sure they’ve smuggled in any number of weapons from “Bad Country” simply because said country makes a lot of cheap guns.

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            11 months ago

            fair, I just wanted to make sure people knew Gaza is making at least some of the tools they are liberating themselves with.

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        11 months ago

        Yup.

        (Also, they could probably cobble together everything except the actual explosive charge with enough punch to do damage to armor.)

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      11 months ago

      True, but, I mean, the Chinese break the blockade against the DPRK all the time; I could definitely see them doing this (basically, looking the other way, essentially).

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        11 months ago

        Maybe…

        I guess it would explain a bit better the statement some Chinese official made (and was posted somewhere around hexbear a few weeks? ago) about China supporting the “Two State Solution”.

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      Could be somthing infinitely dumber like some of the raw materials the Palestinians using having Chinese writing on them since they came from China. Like in like 2006 or something the Israelis were claiming Hamas had Chinese rockets because the water pipes they were using to make rockets were from China. It’s been a meme for a while.

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        11 months ago

        Damnit… the most obvious thing and I didn’t even think of that… hangs head in shame