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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My bet is, if Putin dares to drop a single nuke, he will get assassinated. Lot of secret service agents, and other enthusiasts are straight up going to try that. During war that's allowed right?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Mutually assured destruction is still a thing. We may not be at Cold War levels of insanity, where between the US and Russia there were enough nukes to glass the planet like 150 times over, but plenty of nations have arsenals (especially in Europe), and the best way to make enemies of the entirety of the world would be to be the first one to launch a nuke. Dropping a nuke would signal to every leader in the world that no country is safe from becoming an irradiated wasteland.

I think if Putin dropped a nuke, his allies would drop him faster than it would take NATO to declare all out war with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

My point was, the assassination goal would be him not being able to drop a second one. Also slay the first 100 people in the chain of command and leave them headless.

Cool thing is that nuclear winter will fight global warming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 36 minutes ago

nuclear winter is not a thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 59 minutes ago

Unfortunately, nobody would be able to take him out that quickly. Russia still has plenty of nukes, and they could fire them all before anybody has time to react. If that nuke is an ICBM, though, as soon as it leaves the silo the world would know, and the counter barrage of nukes would be firing up before it even lands.

I originally meant that dropping a nuke would have the entire world declare war on Russia, even his former allies because no one wants to rule over a pile of radioactive rocks, but thinking about it, his allies would probably be the ones most likely to try to have him assassinated in that situation. A maniac with a big stick is only useful so long as you don't have to worry about him smacking you with it, too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I think if you're assassinating a public figure you're a little past caring about what's "allowed"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'll pitch in bail money either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Me too, just tell me where to send the Doge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was taking about like, it's considered a war crime? Skipping the soldiers dying and straight up killing the dude.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well once the nuke is dropped, anything related to Geneva Conventions or any other Conventions go out the window.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The tankies aren't going to like this meme.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If they browse NCD they'll be mad a lot. People on here have the normal take on whether the North Koreans are secret Wakanda good guys, and it comes up constantly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I take Putin very seriously.
Us military is on the same page.

Weirdo nutjobs on the Internet create memes on how much everyone is wrong but them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Okay but everyone else IS wrong but me

[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (5 children)

In my experience people who are against more Ukraine aid think that the dollar amount we send is actual cash that can be spent in other places, rather than pallets of munitions that don't keep forever anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

It’s literal economic stimulus, US sends them old shit, and buys new and more expensive shit from local military suppliers. This is the “creating jobs” thing the right likes so much, except when it’s against Russian interests

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

And a part of that is old stuff that would be decommissioned so the cash is to make the new products. Or so I have understood it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

nah that's right. we've sent ukraine a shit ton of basically decommissioned shit. and even then we've been weirdly stingy, and unresponsive to their non military aid requests (their biggest ask is glass)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Probably on account of every window in every city being broken by shockwaves from bombardments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Wouldn't plexiglass be a better thing to ask for during war time in that case?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

also ukrainian winters are notably brutal

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

And we're also saving a bunch on disposal costs for the old stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Good point. Chuck Norris-style thumbs up.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago

Even for new weapons and ammo it is usually just spending on the local weapons manufacturers so basically just supporting your own economy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Man, I wonder if those Russian propaganda guys ever wish they had more non-bullshit to spew. Like, they have to keep up appearances, but it's usually easy to tell which statements are for the public, and which ones they might actually mean (like the threat to do proxy wars of their own), so it's just a lot of wasted words.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Fox has been pumping up the Russophobia since Putin started saber-rattling, most likely to justify Trump’s incoming “peace negotiations” that will result in sacrificing Ukrainian territory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

No need to use them now that Trump will withdraw support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

One day the fire of a thousand suns will cleans the world from good and evil alike and will bring true balance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Nah. It's gonna be bird flu.

Covid shut down the world with a death rate of like 1%.

Bird flu is 56%.

Don't let the sink in. It's coughing and looks like it's got Bird flu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think bird flu is deadly enough that people will actually take it seriously, the survival rate of Covid was high enough it was possible you would know multiple people who've had it and survived.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

But if it does kick off, it's going to kick off with absolutely the worst people in charge of managing it coupled with lunatics running podcasts who see everything as a conspiracy or are snakeoil salesman/women with a massive reach.

It's going to rival the Black Death if it happens under Trumps administration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

no it won't. plenty of infected people probably got under the radar because they thought it's regular flu. covid initially had much higher fatality too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thankfully, I'm nowhere near the USA, and my country has largely competent leaders, so I'll be watching in horror from the other side of the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

And this time people know to get mad and deliberately cough on each other for freedom in advance, instead of just buying TP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

H5N1 has never left, there were outbreaks 20 years ago already

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

One can only hope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to me why it's ridiculous to take them seriously? Genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

that's because MAD still works and things like sending ATACMS are nowhere close to actual nuclear threshold, which would be nuclear attack or overwhelming conventional invasion threatening existence of country. nobody would be even thinking of nukes until Ukrainian tanks roll to Moscow lol. if you have a spare hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKGYnO0Jf4

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

When your enemy has strategic nukes, the extreme ways to respond are:

A, not taking the nuclear threat seriously.

B, give up.

Saying we shouldn't arm Ukraine because of nukes is close to option B.

Nukes may go off, but if arming Ukraine is the trigger, than we were likely to witness nuclear war because we wouldn't accept option B, rather than any weapon system giving Ukraine an advantage. If that is the case, nuclear war has most likely already been decided.

The real game is to make those in Russia believe that backing down works towards their goals. If they hope in 20 years the US will fall apart, they may wait, or maybe someone will kill Putin and take over Russia, being rewarded by less sanctions.

Long story short, nuking Ukraine don't benifit Russia more than it will hurt it.

I am not an expert

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

And where do you stop appeasement? Kyiv? Warschau? Berlin? Amsterdam? London?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Add a soyjak with an ushanka in the bottom frame next to the chud for extra accuracy