• Godric@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      THEY GOT NOOOOOOOKS??? NO NOT NOOOOOOOOOOOKS!

      Oh my crimminey crickets, pls don’t tell me they have noooks, that means you get to do whatever you want to countries without noooks!

      Ah jeeze, we should probably roll over and just give Russia every slice of land some inbred French-speaking yokel who lived in Moscow inherited or conquered a few centuries ago, cuz Russia got noooks!!!111!!!

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      9 months ago

      Given what the world in which we never stand up to Russia for fear of their nukes looks like, I’d rather we take the risk.

      • PugJesus@kbin.social
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        9 months ago
        1. Because the cry of “But nuclear weapons!” is exactly the line Russia has been pushing since day 3 of this war, in which the lesson is “You can do anything you want to ‘lesser’ powers if you have nuclear weapons, up to and including genocide”

        2. Because they’re off by almost an entire order of magnitude (Russia is generally estimated to have 5,000-6,000 nukes, comparable to the US stockpile)

        3. Because this is NCD, and we yearn to die in nuclear hellfire here.