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Wildberries “mostly sells consumer goods” [but] some of its products, like sports gear, uniforms, thermal-imaging cameras and electronic components “can be used on the front line to supply troops...[and] Preventing their further distribution would technically disrupt military supply chains as well."

I think we need to remember what nuclear submarines are for, what aircraft carriers are for, what are anti-air defence destroyers and anti-submarine frigates for? They're not for picking up migrants to small boats. We've got better ways of doing that."

The DSRB [Defence Security and Resilience Bank] proponents will say the MDM [Multilateral Defence Mechanism] is not really a provable concept, and a lot of the mechanisms seem to be a little bit blurry at the moment, but the distribution mechanism in the MDM is relatively clear in my eyes...Countries in the MDM can decide what kind of joint procurement project money goes to, and it's sovereign governed unlike [EU funding mechanism] SAFE, which the EU Commission is deciding on, so member states of the MDM can set their own rules.”