420blazeit69 [he/him] @ 420blazeit69 @hexbear.net

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Belgorod, where is that?

I don't trust Russia, but Pringles was not exactly an uninpeachable source of truth himself

The first F-16 flew in 1974

Imagine a machine that routinely breaks down. You take over maintenance for it, it breaks once more, then under your care never again. The story is that you finally fixed the machine, not that it broke down for the 100th time at the start of your tenure.

I imagine they have moments of clarity/more realistic factions, but that's constantly undermined by "USA #1" rah rah bullshit and "those people can't possibly beat us" racism.

This is clear proof that China genocided shitty public transit

The first F-16 flew in 1974, half a century ago. Considering how widely they've been used, no one is going to learn anything significant if a few more are shot down or captured.

The Soviets weren't removed from Afghanistan any more than we were -- they left because they lacked popular support and kept taking losses (because we were arming terrorists who would go on to do 9/11, but I'm sure that type of blowback won't come from arming Ukranian neo-Nazis!). The parts of Ukraine Russia is occupying largely wanted to leave Ukraine before the war even started. It's not the same scenario.

Even your best case scenario is "fight a bloody stalemate until one side runs out of troops," which is incredibly destructive to Ukraine even if they win, and of course they won't, because the smaller country that can't just sit back behind extensive defenses isn't going to win a bloody stalemate.

If you want an explanation for Russia's military actions that makes sense, read the article from the Marine Corps Gazette in this comment. Unfortunately I can't find a PDF link.

Lmao so now you're claiming Putin was using some old English idiom in a private conversation with a Portuguese politician? Then said politician quoted Putin as saying a different phrase?

Truly wonderful, the mind of a liberal is.

the US military wouldn’t confront Prince with immediate and overwhelming force

You realize that's the worst-case scenario of the incident we're talking about, right? A sane leader would want to avoid starting a pitched battle in their backyard at all costs, and that's entirely independent of speculation about control over the military.

The scenario is borderline unimaginable in a developed country with anything resembling a modern political infrastructure.

We had a half-assed putsch of our own not even three years ago.

The return of Ukraine in its entirety to the russian nation for one.

That's what you claimed as one of Russia's war goals. You can see the excerpt you quoted isn't anything like that, right?

I'm not even trying to do some sick own or anything. You do see the difference between the stated aims and the propaganda circulating about "Russia wants to conquer the whole of Ukraine," don't you?

Upgrade your insults from the 2019 edition

I’ve been following the history of the breakup of the Soviet Union, and NATO’s involvement for decades

Ukraine is now facing invasion by an enemy that’s made it clear by its actions and rhetoric that the goal is cultural extinction of Ukraine

they were always free to move

Word for word right-wing talking point

The trick is they know zero specifics of either situation

Slobonmi Krainee

You're in a thread with half a dozen comments like "wow libs and tankies are celebrating this?", followed by a bunch of "tankies" explaining (again) that they do not actually like modern Russia.