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Remember the ventilators Russia sent to the US last month? The ones that were manufactured by a company sanctioned by the US? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/firm-under-sanctions-made-russian-ventilators-shipped-u-s-pictures-n1175806">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/worl...
Well, they’re short-circuiting and causing fires in Russian ICUs, burning the patients to death. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-ventilators-linked-to-fatal-hospital-fires-banned-today-after-dozens-sent-to-us-2020-05-13/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russ...
Meanwhile, we’re keeping the Russian-supplied killer ventilators, and (supposedly) sending them good ones. Becaus “America First,” or whatever. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-giving-ventilators-to-russia-putin-for-coronavirus-response-2020-5">https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-...
The “good news” here is that the Russian ventilators, which were the subject of intense speculation about whether or not they were donated or purchased... were never actually put into use anywhere in the United States.
Russia at first insisted they were “donating” these spontaneously-combusting ventilators, then the US insisted they had in fact been purchased, before settling on the story that it was a 50/50 split.
So we paid half price on firebombs sold to us as “ventilators” by a banned Russian company. “We’ve got to make great deals!”
