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The return of the "little green men"?
by thomond 5y ago
The return of the "little green men"?
- edrxty 5y agoIn all seriousness, it worked last time. What's stopping him from trying again?
- choeger 5y agoIt didn't work last time. Last time everyone knew the were Russian soldiers or mercenaries. Ukraine didn't oppose them because a) they held a key road (a bottleneck, really) into Crimea and b) significant parts of the Ukrainian military on the peninsula defected to the Russian side. This time, there's no bottleneck and there will probably be no or only few defectors. This time, it's going to be a shooting war, sadly.
- chitowneats 5y agoIt worked in the sense that Russia secured Crimea without serious consequences. When an authoritarian lies with impunity, that is a triumph for the regime, not a defeat.
- edrxty 5y agoThat sounds a lot like it worked last time.... Not saying it'll work this time, just pointing out the pikachu factor is high here
- aaaaaaaaata 5y ago> pikachu factor Oh, please explain
- edrxty 5y agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surprised-pikachu https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surprised-pikachu Common internet meme about being surprised when the totally predictable happens.
- hackerbeat 5y agoNah, it did work out quite well.
- chitowneats 5y agoThe comparison isn't far off. The distinction however is that Russia is acknowledging that the forces they are sending are indeed Russian troops, rather than hiding behind the fiction that they are local separatist paramilitary. Instead they are hiding behind the propagandistic "peacekeeper" framing.