• @gnutrino
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    1 month ago

    Man, China must be watching this shitshow, looking at Outer Manchuria and wondering what exactly Russia could do about it at this point if they decided to reverse the Treaty of Aigun…

        • @[email protected]
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          161 month ago

          And this is why nuclear powers don’t start stupid wars of conquest, because if they fail (normally they fail), “nukes fly”.

            • @[email protected]
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              1 month ago

              Sharp as a rusty cleaver. I really don’t understand what you are trying to say. What about Vietnam? Who tried to conquer it, China? You understand what an annexation is? The only time an annexation worked since WW2 was sort of Tibet at least that I can remember.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 month ago

        Pretty soon the world is going to need proof that they have even one working warhead before that stops being a viable defense.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          That’s just the thing: No one knows, not even the Russians.
          Which is why they won’t launch them. Cause that could lead to a worse outcome for Putin than total annihilation - public embarassment.

  • @[email protected]
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    601 month ago

    We’ll let them take Palin as a snack if they’re still hungry after annexing Green Ukraine

  • @[email protected]
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    461 month ago

    Is there anything between the Urals and Alaska that would slow down an invading army? Other than the lack of infrastructure.

    • @[email protected]
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      601 month ago

      Just like everything. Forests, swamps, rivers, extreme weather. There’s a reason people don’t live in that part of the world

      • @[email protected]
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        141 month ago

        I’d slightly categorize that under “lack of infrastructure”. Taiga covers 12% of Earth’s land area and is difficult to travel in. 25% of Earth’s land area is mountainous, 33% desert, 7% rainforest…

      • @[email protected]
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        431 month ago

        Yes. Putin has been acting like global warming will unlock more Russian land for production. Turns out the permafrost areas are such because they were mostly giant bogs before freezing.

        • Cethin
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          121 month ago

          The explosions of Methane as it thaws is interesting and worrying. Definitely not a place that people are going to want to live in even when warmer.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      161 month ago

      No, just look in to history they have lost control of it 1918-1920.

      As my friend says “I will join army only if I can ride trains through Siberia and shoot ruzzians, as my grandfather.”

  • WIZARD POPE💫
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    311 month ago

    Hope their spy agency set up a colab government or they will have to actually push that far.

      • LearnedDonkey
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        I don’t think Russia is winning. I think Russia, for all intents and purposes, already won…at a cost of course.

        But I tend to filter my news by reality and sources by factuality. Most people tend to filter by wishes. So it’s normal that some would think otherwise. The other side filtering by wishes may also be thinking that the win came at a much smaller cost than reality.

          • LearnedDonkey
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            -291 month ago

            We all know what you are.

            Do share. Your head sounds like an entertaining place. And I genuinely mean that.

        • /home/pineapplelover
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          281 month ago

          Russia is winning, that’s why they’re locking down their internet and not letting their citizens talk to each other privately.

        • @[email protected]M
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          161 month ago

          That’s quite a humblebrag, woven in there with your sense of self. Why did you you come on down to mingle with those who filter by wishes? A kind of intellectual disaster tour, you’re just passing through to gawk?

          • LearnedDonkey
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            -211 month ago

            I wanted to double-check that i’m not being outjerked, and the posts here are not metaironic.

        • @[email protected]
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          First time I have seen a Russian troll in social media since the embarrassment that was the reverse advance and surrender of Russians in Kursk. You know? The 1, 000km2 patch of land taken by Ukraine in just 8 days, which took months for Russia to conquer three-quarters of the size? That invasion which Gerasimov ignored the warnings of and embarrassed Putin for complacency? That amount of that land taken by Ukrainians in just one week will not even cover up the propaganda which you call “news by reality and sources by actuality”. You call that winning? As we speak, Russia redeployed some if its troops from Eastern Ukraine to Kursk.

          Edit: corrected the figures

    • @[email protected]
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      281 month ago

      Until very recently, I’d have called it a stalemate. I don’t think any side can be described as “winning” right now.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        Although the mass surrendering of Russian Soldiers is tipping things in Ukraine’s favor fast.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 month ago

      It’s hard to know…

      But don’t forget that Russia thought they’d seize Ukraine quickly. They haven’t. Even if they “win”, it will be a shit show and they won’t be able to keep it

      I also have a Russian coworker who joined the Company after the war and he was embarrassed about Russia. I seriously doubt most of their soldiers are motivated to fight

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Does Russia have the funds to sustain this war and for how long? There’s a reason why Belousov is the head of the MoD

    • @[email protected]
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      -101 month ago

      Don’t listen to them.

      political propaganda is extremely effective and it’s impossible to make out the from the noise.

      Near as I can tell Ukraine was losing fairly badly and the invasion was a last ditch effort that nobody wanted, although they are still backed by NATO and they won’t lose until they let them but Russia has an almost endless supply of Troops and equipment so they will lose eventually unless the war gets too embarrassing or it risks going Nuclear.

      • wanderingmagus
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        31 month ago

        As a US SSBN submariner - bring it. Give me one good reason to set 1SQ and let these birds fly. I dare you.