• 4 Posts
  • 98 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: January 15th, 2024

help-circle









  • I guess it would be most accurate to say that The US (with no mention of allies) could take Moscow

    Yeah, that’s where Isdisagree. Although I’m no military stategist. I simply don’t think that a nuclear power the size of Russia could be conquered that easily without nuclear retaliation.



  • That’s just bullshit. Russian’s military (it’s not just Putin - he’s an authoritarian, but he’s not a supreme leader - he has to watch his step very carefully or the next authoritarian will take his place) definetly did have a strategic interest in the black sea. That’s why all that annexation of crimea business started (afaik).

    So it’s the Russian government that’s enforcing the nation state’s interest here, definetly not due to the “personal whim” of someone.

    Putin can’t afford to be a mad king. He definetly isn’t the only one in the Kremlin who can just disappear people…









  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.nettoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldCurious
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    15 days ago

    Where do you get the impression that Russia isn’t a threat?

    Having a military that’s in such a supposed desolate state is mutually exclusive to being a threat. That’s like claiming a teenager with a slingshot is a threat to a gang of polige officers with assault rifles.

    Ukraine proves that it very much is.

    I don’t follow. The invasion of Ukraine had a strategic motivation behind it (so did the annexation of Crimea). What possible strategic benefit would it have for Russia to attack the EU?

    That’s like claiming that the US is about to invade Mexico, because of the Iraq war(s).