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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 hour ago

Tankies: "Liberals are so blood-thirsty"

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Fox news is desperately pushing this and signal boosting their true leader constantly.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 35 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

My bet is, if Putin dares to drop a single nuke, he will get assassinated. Lot of secret service agents, and other enthusiasts are straight up going to try that. During war that's allowed right?

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Mutually assured destruction is still a thing. We may not be at Cold War levels of insanity, where between the US and Russia there were enough nukes to glass the planet like 150 times over, but plenty of nations have arsenals (especially in Europe), and the best way to make enemies of the entirety of the world would be to be the first one to launch a nuke. Dropping a nuke would signal to every leader in the world that no country is safe from becoming an irradiated wasteland.

I think if Putin dropped a nuke, his allies would drop him faster than it would take NATO to declare all out war with Russia.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You say that, and yet Exxon-Mobil have proven that actively trying to destroy the world does nothing to turn world leaders away from trying to buddy up with you.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

When you exon does it, it's slowly and for money. So there are "winners". Nukes have no winners.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I read this book and it changed my opinion a little. Every scenario ends in a nuclear apocalypse, no matter who started with how much.
There might be a hero or two refusing to launch down the command line. But should we rely on that?

[–] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My point was, the assassination goal would be him not being able to drop a second one. Also slay the first 100 people in the chain of command and leave them headless.

Cool thing is that nuclear winter will fight global warming

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

nuclear winter is not a thing

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Patroling the Mojave almost makes me wish it was though

Unfortunately, nobody would be able to take him out that quickly. Russia still has plenty of nukes, and they could fire them all before anybody has time to react. If that nuke is an ICBM, though, as soon as it leaves the silo the world would know, and the counter barrage of nukes would be firing up before it even lands.

I originally meant that dropping a nuke would have the entire world declare war on Russia, even his former allies because no one wants to rule over a pile of radioactive rocks, but thinking about it, his allies would probably be the ones most likely to try to have him assassinated in that situation. A maniac with a big stick is only useful so long as you don't have to worry about him smacking you with it, too.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I think if you're assassinating a public figure you're a little past caring about what's "allowed"

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'll pitch in bail money either way.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was taking about like, it's considered a war crime? Skipping the soldiers dying and straight up killing the dude.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well once the nuke is dropped, anything related to Geneva Conventions or any other Conventions go out the window.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.zip 74 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

The tankies aren't going to like this meme.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If they browse NCD they'll be mad a lot. People on here have the normal take on whether the North Koreans are secret Wakanda good guys, and it comes up constantly.

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 114 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (9 children)

In my experience people who are against more Ukraine aid think that the dollar amount we send is actual cash that can be spent in other places, rather than pallets of munitions that don't keep forever anyway.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s literal economic stimulus, US sends them old shit, and buys new and more expensive shit from local military suppliers. This is the “creating jobs” thing the right likes so much, except when it’s against Russian interests

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes, but it is really inefficient. If we simply ignore the nuke threat it would probably take the US a month of bombing to restore pre 2014 borders.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 58 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

And a part of that is old stuff that would be decommissioned so the cash is to make the new products. Or so I have understood it.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 53 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

nah that's right. we've sent ukraine a shit ton of basically decommissioned shit. and even then we've been weirdly stingy, and unresponsive to their non military aid requests (their biggest ask is glass)

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Probably on account of every window in every city being broken by shockwaves from bombardments

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't plexiglass be a better thing to ask for during war time in that case?

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I am guessing that outside of the frontlines bombings are still fairly rare events. Risk is low enough for installing proper windows, but high enough to ensure there are not enough.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 15 points 9 hours ago

also ukrainian winters are notably brutal

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

And we're also saving a bunch on disposal costs for the old stuff.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 hours ago

Even for new weapons and ammo it is usually just spending on the local weapons manufacturers so basically just supporting your own economy.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Good point. Chuck Norris-style thumbs up.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Man, I wonder if those Russian propaganda guys ever wish they had more non-bullshit to spew. Like, they have to keep up appearances, but it's usually easy to tell which statements are for the public, and which ones they might actually mean (like the threat to do proxy wars of their own), so it's just a lot of wasted words.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Fox has been pumping up the Russophobia since Putin started saber-rattling, most likely to justify Trump’s incoming “peace negotiations” that will result in sacrificing Ukrainian territory.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

They need Biden to go easy on russia until the fat orange can get in power and come save daddy putin.

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