• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Classic elementary school bully bullshit. Mercilessly pick on a kid until that kid punches them square in the nose. Then all of a sudden they (the bully) are the poor helpless victim. Cry me a fucking river.

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      11 months ago

      As Russian military continues to purposely destroy supermarkets, homes, schools, hospitals, energy infrastructure, entire towns, etc.

      I wonder how many “innocent” Russians know of any of that. Or that their soldiers kidnapped and raped women and children. Tortured and executed others. “Fake news” I’m sure they’d conveniently claim. Ignorance is bliss, until the bombs start dropping on their town.

  • Frog@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Invansion? No. It’s a special military operation. There is no invasion here.

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          The problem is that if we do whatever it takes to avoid “pushing” Putin into using nukes, then in effect we’re saying he can do whatever he wants because he has nukes.

          Given that Russia literally sees accelerating climate change as advantageous to them, an unchecked Russian Federation might actually do more damage to life on earth than nuclear war would, over a long enough timeline.

          The only rational play is to treat his threats as hollow, because time and time again he’s proven that they are. Otherwise we’re basically just handing Putin an “I do what I want” card.

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          11 months ago

          Russia, for its many other faults, has the right to be proud of its history of refusing to launch nukes. Vasily Arkhipov is a hero. We will always need more like him.

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      11 months ago

      Putin can (and does) claim anything at any time. No reason to worry about giving him ammunition to claim shit.

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      11 months ago

      What’s Putin worried about? He’s sure the Ukrainian invasion will be over in only 3 days. /s

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The Russian babushkas who chatted in a friendly manner with the Ukrainian mobile cav passing by didn’t seem to take issue with anything, and they were left alone - as civilians should be in a conflict, to the greatest degree possible.

    Not to mention, life in a Ukrainian oblast is probably going to be nicer than life in a Russian oblast, long term.

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    11 months ago

    Seems like the 901st day of the 3-day special military operation isn’t going too well

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    11 months ago

    Are those the same peaceful people that think that the Ukrainians should be exterminated? Yeah cry more Russia.

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    11 months ago

    Borders are for suckers, haha!!

    …900 days later…

    No, not like that!

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I mean, he’s right. It’s not the people’s fault he’s a piece of shit and should get out of Ukraine.