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you can have a tiny nuclear war, as a treat. insane we're back here.
by tekno45 8mo ago
you can have a tiny nuclear war, as a treat.
insane we're back here.
- mothballed 8mo agoNorth Korea has nukes but those in the Nordics are bragging about defeating Russia by buying heat pumps. Much of Europe has been living in a time of what amounts to ignorant bliss which Putin is slowly shaking them out of.
- knallfrosch 8mo agoIt would have been stupid not to try peace. Germany hasn't invaded France (or vice versa) for two generations now. The Soviet Union dissolved itself peacefully by act of parliament. (Compare to Germany/Japan/Napoleon)
- hiprob 8mo ago"Peacefully" is a strong word, that same parliament would later be "peacefully" removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_cr...
- knallfrosch 8mo agoCan you name a more peaceful end of an 20th century empire?
- graemep 8mo agoIf you want peace, prepare for war
- mothballed 8mo agoAnd if you aren't prepared, but you have peace anyway, you never really made the choice. You just had a bout of luck.
- tim333 8mo ago>Nordics are bragging about defeating Russia by buying heat pumps...ignorant bliss... I think you'll find Finland in particular doesn't have much innocent bliss regards Russia and some history there.
- Legend2440 8mo agoWe kinda never really left.
- red-iron-pine 8mo agoif anything, we had fantastic stability because of it, and because there were rational-ish actors holding the bombs
- ASalazarMX 8mo agoIt was a fantastic bluff from the USA to make the USSR believe that Bufford "Mad Dog" Tannen was in charge of the nukes, when in reality it was Doc. Brown.
- stoneforger 8mo agoThe OG grift, FUD and extortion money. But call it a military industrial complex.. The Devil's Playground was an eye+opener
- ajuc 8mo agoAll we needed to do was accept Ukraine to NATO. Or provide actual military help back in 2014. Instead we paid more, got hundreds of thousands of people dead, undermined our security guarantees, and all because of short term idiocy/cowardice. The only reasonable consequence is EU countries getting nukes and getting closer to China. And we're digging our grave further by Trump undermining NATO guarantees.