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[–] 19 points 3 days ago (1 child)

This is lunacy. Russia has a right to [DB connection error].

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago

    This new PUBG lobby looks sick.

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  • [–] 101 points 4 days ago (25 children)
    1. buy russian oil
    2. dare others to bomb that just bought, undelivered oil, by insulting or cutting starlinks and such
    3. your own oil is gone and local prices skyrocket.

    Genius 🍿

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  • [–] 54 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    How long until Trump declares war on Ukraine

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  • [–] 30 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    This would cause enough civil unrest to justify canceling the midterm election

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    [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    Good. I think Ukraine should hit at least one Russian oil refinery for every Ukrainian school, hospital or apartment building Putin has hit. Assuming Russia even has that many.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 days ago

    AND data centers... keep up the good work!

    It turns out there are only seventeen actual magats - the rest of the noisy bastards are virtual from Russia. (or putin, as i like to call it)

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  • [–] 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    They were holding back? 😳

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  • [–] 58 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    According to the Ukrainian President, Kyiv refrained from attacking Russian energy facilities for three days in an effort to comply with Washington’s request.

    Russia, however, continued striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure during that period and killed more than 100 civilians over the past week, Zelenskyy said.

    Apparently they held back in good faith, which obviously was a mistake.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago

    Apparently they held back in good faith, which obviously was a mistake.

    Nah, it's good politics. Make it blindingly obvious who the problem is. And drone production continued anyway, which is where the bottleneck is.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    The cover image looks like a character selection screen

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Zelly Robotic admiral, zelinski's air force is entirely made up of drones. These drones have the ability to move across the battle field at extreme speed and explode on impact.

    Putin Infinite conscription, Putin foot soldiers are conscripts. These soldiers are produced at double the speed of other armies.

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    [–] 19 points 3 days ago (22 children)

    So am I the only one sitting here wondering if the US is gonna nuke Iran first, or if Russia is gonna nuke Ukraine first? Because I feel like we're just speeding right toward both of those things right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Nuking Iran will make the oil crisis permanent.

    Nuking Ukraine would kill the value of Ukraine.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)
    1. The US does not actually dislike the "oil crisis" the US oil companies were in deep debt prior to the Iran war and were barely breaking even on their oil. This was has been a massive windfall for them. It's a political problem for Trump yes, but the actual power players in the US (rich) love it.
    2. A tactical nuke on Kiev would not destroy the value of Ukraine. You are too Fallout brained. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They're perfectly normal cities today.
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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    Yes - shortages and perceived shortages give corporations something to blame high prices on. Bad times are fine as long as they can blame somebody else. They tried to blame the 2009 financial meltdown on "irresponsible borrowers".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    A tactical nuke on Kiev would not destroy the value of Ukraine

    I agree: the Chernobyl disaster was radiologically worse than a modern nuclear weapon.

    I'd raise the problem with using a tactical nuke is the consequences of breaking the nuclear taboo is normalizing use of tactical nukes, and outside of a few morons and sociopaths nobody wants to live in that world.

    I guess the bright side would be the "not totally insane or stupid" countries teaming up against a common enemy to do anything possible to remove the people responsible from power. You'd find some extremely well trained and equipped "rebels" hunting heads.

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  • I think the nuclear taboo was always a myth. It's always been the case that there were 2 groups of countries (since nukes existed). 1 group had nukes, but could also generally get their way conventionally. Another group either didn't have nukes but couldn't defend themselves conventionally, or had nukes and just hid behind their nuclear shield. Like the DPRK using nukes to keep the US at bay.

    So the fact no nukes every got used was mostly due to the fact that the big interventionist military powers didn't NEED their nukes to win. Unless they were facing a country that also has nukes. In which case MAD applies.

    But now there's countries that are beating nuclear powers conventionally, while also not having nukes, and not even being backed by a nuclear power (like how the USSR was there to back the Vietnamese).

    Then the extra factor is that nukes aren't all that useful in most cases. They're too big. Too destructive. Not precision weapons. But the wars being fought now are less and less about precision. And more about just destroying the enemy entirely.

    So the way I look at it isn't as "breaking the nuclear taboo" since I generally don't think world leaders care about stuff like that. I look at it as the conditions that motivate or demotivate a nuclear strike happening are changing.

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    [–] 11 points 3 days ago

    shouldve hit it from the start, so the propaganda would be less far reaching than it s now.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 days ago

    Do data centers too please, I like to call them “cloud bursts”

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Bring em hell! Slava Ukraine

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago

    Do more data centers, too please!

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I would love it if Ukraine destroyed the diesel the USA bought. Fuck the fucking fuckers

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    For the non-Rome-geeks, this is a reference to "Carthago delenda est" (Carthage must be destroyed) which Cato the Elder used to end every speech in the Roman senate with.

    He got his way in the end.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Seeing a few underdog countries call the USA's bluff, put it in a strangle hold and then spank it's ass effortlessly, Venezuela must feel a little silly for being the only one to preemptively surrender without a fight.

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