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The North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO) raised the $250,000 needed in a matter of weeks.
By Ed Scarce December 31, 2022
The raccoon stolen from the Kherson zoo has proven to be very expensive for the Russians as online memes and fundraising have provided Ukraine with even more armaments.
Source: Republic World
The Fellas, as they are known, are a rowdy band of online comrades with a nose for dog memes who are easily identified by their Shiba Inu profile pictures, are an army, but on the Internet. They comprise the NAFO (North Atlantic Fella Organisation) which has been waging an information war on social media against Russian propaganda, and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Ukraine's armies as they go. When Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelesnkyy United24 initiative asked if NAFO wanted to raise money to pay for a naval drone - and give it a name - they did not take much time to make sure that it happened.
The challenge to the fellas is part of United24's quest to assemble a fleet of 100 sea drones, following what Ukraine says was a strike on Russia's Black Sea Fleet in October exclusively using unmanned vessels. It only took a few weeks for the fellas to raise the $250,000 (£205,000) needed for one such drone, which they have duly named Raccoon's Revenge.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/12/raccoons-revenge-ukraines-internet-army
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)blue-wave
(4,372 posts)Well done Fellas!! My hat is off to you!!
May 'Raccoon's Revenge' score a major hit!!
getagrip_already
(14,935 posts)Surface or submersible?
Curious. I've been waiting for the arrival of uuv's (unmanned underwater vessels).