Europe, I hope y'all are doing the whole "speak quietly and carry a big stick."
Because if Putin steam rolls Ukraine, he's not stopping there, and now he has the US government under his control too.
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If Europe really wanted to stop Russia, they would've sent armies into Ukraine.
"We don't want to escalate because it might start WW3!"
But Putin is going to attack you guys anyways when he's done with Ukraine.
"Yes, but this is the rhetoric dumbasses have been told to peddle so that's what we're doing!"
I still remember when people said Ukraine shouldn't mine its border because it would be seen as "escalation." Funny how the wrong-crowd always scatters like roaches after the damage is done.
They have scheduled a committee meeting to decide where to plant the tree from which they might someday get big sticks.
Bet.
We ready bruv
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Russia had experience in trying to invade Finland. Hasn't gone well for them since... well, since the idea of nations to begin with.
Finland isn't what I'm quite so worried about yet.
Its more Estonia. And Latvia. And Moldova, Romania, Poland, Chezchia, Slovakia, Serbia, Bulgaria, etc.
Hungary and Belarus I think we can say are pretty much already Russia.
Also I didn't know about the Kaliningrad Oblast, anyone know what the fuck happened there?
Kaliningrad was German before (Königsberg) but was annexed by the Soviets after WW2 and Russified. At the time there was a land border through the Baltics. When these former Soviet states broke free, Kaliningrad remained Russian.
Yeah kaliningrad oblast came like as a surprise to me as well some years back. Like what the fuck is a piece of Russia doing there?!
Estonia is a EU and NATO country. It's not part of NORDEFCO but we still have exercised with them extensively I believe especially after joining NATO.
Finland is the backbone of the Nordic defense.
And that's my favourite role. In the army we won the rope-pulling contest with me as anchor. The other teams wore fucking boots while we had sneakers on (because dress code says no boots with exercise gear) so they broke military dress code and accused us of cheating.
I know I wasn't the strongest member of our group (we had one EU judo champion who could toss a 10-20kg exercise ball to the ceiling of a sports hall like 10m high), but I was the most unyielding one with the most spirit and anger and that's infectious.
I like to think I channeled the spirit of Óðinn:
As mentioned above, Odin’s name can be translated as “Master of Ecstasy.” His Old Norse name, Óðinn, is formed from two parts: first, the noun óðr, “ecstasy, fury, inspiration,” and the suffix -inn, the masculine definite article, which, when added to the end of another word like this, means something like “the master of” or “a perfect example of.” The eleventh-century historian Adam of Bremen confirms this when he translates “Odin” as “The Furious.”[1] Óðr can take countless different forms. As one saga describes Odin, “when he sat with his friends, he gladdened the spirits of all of them, but when he was at war, his demeanor was terrifyingly grim.”
https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/
(as a side note odin was way gayer than ppl think and slightly genderfluid and I respect all lgtb and im not a racist, it's just something you have to mention when talking about norse myths)
And thats wholly tangential but it's what I bring to the table.. Let Vanja fucking try opening up another front.
Fascinating! Thanks for this mythology lesson. I once read that although referring to the same god, "Wodan" is Odin on a grumpy day. Would you agree (I believe it was a modern Norwegian practitioner saying this, it was a long time ago, though).
We're doing that. Well, without the stick.
Man, what a peace-loving guy! Damn Ukraine for not stopping the war! >:/
Ukraine shouldn't have started it by wanting to be independent of Russia.
Edit: do I really need to add /s?
Ukraine asked for it. By the way she dressed. If Ukraine didn't want to be invaded, she should have just kept an aspirin between her knees
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So... Let me check I get this right on the timeline.
America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.
Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.
Next steps boys
The next step is to get Putin to a table and poison or radiate him and end it that way.
Trump gets angry how his perfect plan fails, calls for sanctions and increased weapon delivered to Ukraine of of spite.
Or he sulks in the corner focuses on his trade war and bans media outlets that point out how terrible is at negotiation.
Because they need Ukrainian resources or the Russian state goes bankrupt and that's the end of Russia.
- America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.
For anyone not reading the article he is specifically talking about any troops Ukraine has left in the Kursk region as there has been a general pullback into Ukraine from Kursk in the last few days. This is not about the wider peace negotiations.
For anyone not reading the article
ie. everybody in the thread
Strange because the actual title of the article mentions that fact. it appears the link seeks to make it as clickbaity as possible.
Bro, you don't even have the strongest army inside of Russia.
Fucking war criminal.
Trump was supposed to end this war in a day. Has it been a day yet?
Check again tomorrow
Can someone please take Putin out on a balcony
or a window in top floor of a skyscraper. Dude needs some fresh air.
He wants peace btw
There will be peace when there's nobody left to fight.
Technically correct dictator 🥲
He cherishes peace with all of his heart. He doesn't care how many men, women and children he kills to get it
Bullshit.
Nah you can totally trust people who use the terms "or die" in peace negotiations
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That’s not a mutually exclusive or
In the words of The Dread Pirate Roberts: "Death First!"
Hey Putin, wanna hear a funny story?
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