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Your low opinion of Russia is showing.
by yarrel 10y ago
Your low opinion of Russia is showing.
- finid 10y agoActually because of the restraint Russia has been showing in the last few years, I hold their leadership in very high regard.
- int_19h 10y agoRussia was the first country in Europe to invade and annex a part of a neighboring country since, what, WW2? If that's restraint, I hesitate to ask what the lack of it would look like.
- jacquesm 10y agoTurkey, Cyprus.
- int_19h 10y agoTurkey didn't annex Northern Cyprus. Nor did Albania annex Kosovo, nor Russia itself annexed South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria before. It's the combination of invasion and annexation - effectively, waging war for a formally acknowledged territorial gain - that makes the situation in Crimea unique post WW2.
- jacquesm 10y agoWell, technically it was Greece that tried the annexation and Turkey does maintain a large military on Cyprus. But you're right, the Crimea is both in scale, scope and ambition on a different level.
- xnlvkYDNCXjJw 10y agoDidn't Russia annex Crimea? How are the sanctions not Russia's fault??
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoWhich restraint would that be?
- enraged_camel 10y agoIt's the opposite: they have shown an incredible amount of restraint in the face of overwhelming opposition and crippling sanctions from Europe and USA.
- dagenleg 10y agoWell, nobody wants to die in a Nuclear War.
- vkou 10y agoIt might surprise, and horrify you to know that a large number of high-ranking US staff think that nuclear war is winnable [1]. It makes my blood boil. [1] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-war-becoming-thinkable/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-w...
- shrimp_emoji 10y agohttps://youtu.be/vuP6KbIsNK4?t=47 https://youtu.be/vuP6KbIsNK4?t=47
- ekianjo 10y agodo your smoldering bones care about whoever wins ?
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- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> a large number of high-ranking US staff think that nuclear war is winnable The article [1] cites two retired generals as its examples of "senior military officers" who "might be eager to get things started in the belief that a war with Russia could actually be winnable". [1] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-war-becoming-thinkable/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-w...