• @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    561 year ago

    Russia attacking NATO would give a significant chunk of the globe the green light to obliterate Putin.

    This is likely the route to ending the war on Ukraine with the lowest loss of human life.

    So… Go on Putin, try it.

      • @suction@lemmy.world
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        The problem with this is that Russia will rather take whole world down with it than admit defeat. They don’t obey the rules (and laws) of war.

        • @nexusband@lemmy.world
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          01 year ago

          Anymore. The Russians themselves did for a time. Case in point the times a russian actively prevented WW3 or rather a nuclear exchange.

            • @nexusband@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              So you are telling me Arkhipov and Petrov where just propaganda figures to promote the “good will” of the soviet union?

              You can do that all day long, without hard facts I will not believe you, because both cases have been documented extensively and thoroughly. Ukrainian propaganda is doing a bad job, grasping at straws these days. I’m still 100% behind Ukraine, but negating everything and trying to paint anyone who isn’t in line as the bad guy is straight out of the soviet and russian handbooks.

              • @suction@lemmy.world
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                01 year ago

                Painting Russia as the rational side who actually wants peace and the evil West as the warmongers (not just for this war) is a fairy tale and one of the main taking points of Russian propaganda. I’m not saying you’re on their side but if you parrot them without putting it into perspective, you’re doing their bidding.

                • @nexusband@lemmy.world
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                  11 year ago

                  I’d never paint Russia as the rational side - which is why the distinction between Russia and the Soviet Union AND the distinction between individuals is important, imho.

      • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        Ooooh right, nUcLeAr WaRfArE! Forgot about that. Yeah, we should probably just let them completely destroy Ukraine, and after they’re done, feed em whichever countries they want until they’ve had their fill.

        Anything to keep Putin placated!

          • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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            51 year ago

            Wats that?

            That’s the reason we need to not give Putin a free pass to commit whatever evil he wants. He’ll saber rattle all day long, but he knows the second he calls that order that he’s signing his own death sentence. He cares about himself above all else, so that shit ain’t gonna happen regardless of how loudly they hint about it.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    31 year ago

    I feel like at this point he’s trying to antagonize europe into launching a counterpropoganda campaign against Russia’s troll farming

    • donuts
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      91 year ago

      At this point I wish they would, frankly. Especially since the US is clearly going to do nothing to hold Trump, Putin and all of their stooges accountable for anything.

    • @mibo80@lemm.ee
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      211 year ago

      That’s not his style. He’s only speaking to his people. Nothing about what he says correlates to reality. He doesn’t want to antagonize Russia at all. He, like cucker are beholden to pushing Putin’s propaganda. We are still suffering from Russian psyops.

    • @Riccosuave@lemmy.world
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      1291 year ago

      There’s also a 1:1 probability that you’re a sociopath, mentally unstable, brainwashed, legitimately stupid, or willfully ignorant.

        • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          71 year ago

          Yup my local magat has no idea that any trials happened for the Jan 6 insurrectionists. He thinks Biden personally sent them to jail without trial.

          When I showed him the stats for guilty pleas and convictions he changed the subject to Hunter’s problems.

        • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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          121 year ago

          Thats a great read, and echoes what ive been seeing at my own workplace. Those who even remotely follow news (outside of Faux News) are all voting biden. Those who dont, hear that bidens old, that hes out of touch, and want trump to win out of spite for how much they hate the political climate.

          That whole, “vote for trump or abstain to stick it to the man” thing is trending like nothing else. Even here on Lemmy, but esp on reddit.

          TALK TO THE PPL IN UR LIFE, NOW!

          • Optional
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            71 year ago

            And coincidentally that position favors russia. Somehow. It’s a mystery.

            • https://midwest.social/comment/7013586

              Just follow this comment chain.

              And im banned from the sub for this. Fucking terrifying shit if ur at all into democracy or oopsed to fascism.

              Please spread word of this happening. On reddit this shit is far far more widespread. There, leftist subs that once prided themselves on never banning anyone will happily ban anyone who says that not voting for biden is playing right into fascist hands, even if said comment generates positive feedback!

  • @rusticus@lemm.ee
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    441 year ago

    Feeding his base. Republicans only platform is to trigger libs. They’re like monkeys throwing shit at their fellow citizens.

  • @CultHero@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    If that dick sucker gets back in we are closing our borders so fucking fast. Also Canada is part of the British commonwealth so we know what side the UK will be on if this idiot tries anything.

    • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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      31 year ago

      Unfortunately closing our borders doesn’t mean anything when we share the longest undefended border in the world.

      There are a literal shit ton of places to just walk across (or 4x4) without anyone knowing … and that sucks in this context. :/

      • Arghblarg
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        61 year ago

        … and even just economically, AFAIK we have treaties we would have difficulty getting out of; such as to provide them with water. We ship a lot of our raw resources (beef, lumber) down to them only to buy back finished goods, stuff like that. Canada will be in a real jam if we feel a need to distance ourselves properly from the USA.

        • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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          31 year ago

          AFAIK we have treaties we would have difficulty getting out of;

          Trump had no problem breaking treaties on a whim the last time.

          I don’t imagine he wouldn’t continue doing that if the idea randomly popped into his head (or was placed there).

          • Arghblarg
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            21 year ago

            Indeed, and we might need to be ready to play some hardball ‘tit for tat’ if it comes to it. However we’ve always been ‘the mouse’ to their ‘elephant’ so that might not be feasible.

  • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    721 year ago

    Sometimes I like to imagine that trump is actually an elaborate honey pot, and any day now all of his supporters are going to be rounded up for being treasonous idiots too dangerous to leave unattended. But no, people really are that awful.

    The guy’s fool and a security threat. He should be in a cell, not on television.

        • @disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml
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          21 year ago

          I’m not going to say your wrong because your not but if we are going to continue to use it (we likely are), threat’s to our republic such as insurrectionists, a place like gitmo is surely where they should be.

          That’s the longest run on sentence I’ve written in a while.

        • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Trump is cool with enhanced interrogations. I say we let his fantasy of torturing traitors play out, and we find out what documents he stole, and what he really thinks about the 2020 election. It’s really a win-win.

    • ZeroTemp
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      191 year ago

      I’m not entirely convinced that Trump isn’t set up and supported by the Bush family so W didn’t go down in history as the worst modern president ever.

        • Flying Squid
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          81 year ago

          Trump wouldn’t say that about Russia.

          He would say that about Ukraine.

        • ZeroTemp
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          21 year ago

          Yeah I think I have heard a thing or two about something called the chilly war or something like that. Sounds delicious at first but then you read up on it and it was a lot of dick wagging but with nukes instead of dicks.

  • @Clbull@lemmy.world
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    My only hope with a second Trump term is that when he inevitably drags the US out of NATO, the other member states invest more heavily into their military budgets, rally to support each other and make it a true defensive pact.

    NATO would definitely feel the hit of losing US support, but I don’t think this will tip the scales in Ukraine. If the other states chip in, I think they’ll hold out.

    It’s more hilarious that the Republican Party have managed to dupe their own stereotypically patriotic supporters into allowing them to sell out to Russia. Aren’t they forgetting the decades of anti-Commie propaganda being fed to them?

    • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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      -71 year ago

      Ideally NATO would fall apart and cap the member states’ potential to commit their imperialism in the middle east.

      And modern capitalist Russia tries its best to put out anti-communist propaganda for its population too btw. The current governments of the US and Russia aren’t too different in that sense; the difference is that Russians have lived under Socialism and experienced the massively decreased quality of life after the country turned capitalist so the propaganda doesn’t quite work (with rising support for the USSR in recent years even)

      The reason Trump wants to ally with Russia is likely to sabotage China, the same way they sabotaged the USSR and contributed to its illegal dissolution by allying with China against them in the Cold War.

      • @sushibowl@feddit.nl
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        51 year ago

        Russia isn’t communist anymore.

        Strictly speaking, was it ever really communist? Did any Marxist-Leninist state even come close to a communist society? Where’s all those Lemmy people who read Marx when you need them?

        They are a white ethno state with strong laws against the gays.

        Kinda always have been.

  • I’m over the insane sewage that spews from his mouth and not clicking on any trump articles (ragebait) … fuck the news they are salivating at the money if he is president again.

    So if anyone is feeling generous I’m a little OLL could you explain what these like dumbass ok hands are??? Is he about to do the batman hand mask?

  • Phoenixz
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    251 year ago

    This is really laughable. Trump is bitching about not paying bills? Trump? They guy who’s lawyers need to sue him to force him to pay his bills? The guy who robbed money from his charities for himself? That dude?

    He means that Europe got complacent with Russia, which it did, but he’s not some genius for seeing that. It was a known issue and let’s say that Europe has learned it’s lesson. He just was typically dumpass trump and threatened his allies over small issues, instead of using diplomacy.

    Now saying that he’ll encourage Putin to attack Europe (good luck with that one, btw) is again stabbing his allies. He doesn’t understand that America is worth shit without those allies, because of course he doesn’t because he’s trump. Be proud of being dumb.

  • bedrooms
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    231 year ago

    And conservatives all over the world still want to install Trump as POTUS, let alone the American ones.