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No need for nukes. Kyiv will become a Sarajevo II. Our TV screens will be full of starving children which will eventually force a surrender (or a pretext for a
by krona 5y ago
No need for nukes. Kyiv will become a Sarajevo II. Our TV screens will be full of starving children which will eventually force a surrender (or a pretext for a NATO intervention.)
- ben_w 5y agoOr a Berlin Airlift II. I didn’t know before I moved here that the GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart), which matches some of Putin’s recent rhetoric.
- idontwantthis 5y agoSpaceX Starship supply drops? Cargo planes dropping pallets will be legitimate targets. I wonder if Starship would be fast and high enough for enough time that it would be hard to destroy before it landed.
- ben_w 5y agoIf they’re NATO aircraft, I suspect Russia wouldn’t want to attack them for similar reasons to why the USSR didn’t in Berlin ‘48-‘49. Starship is unlikely to be ready soon enough, but if it was, as it’s a rocket I would worry about it triggering ICBM alarms.
- megous 5y agoHave you seen the map of areas around Kyiv? It's woods left and right and a flat land. How's a siege even going to work?