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[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So many incredibly stupid takes in comments. This is not a game. This is not a fucking Netflix special. The escalation ladder is so easy to go up, but so hard to climb down. This is a terrifying development.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -4 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

This should be delivered to Putin, How exactly should the world deal with a fanatic armed with nukes?

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 hours ago

You misspelled America

I won't bother listing the countries the US has bombed invaded or overthrown governments in the last oh I dunno 100 years

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for proving their point.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the US shouldn't have made such an obvious and stupid choice to escalate the conflict by allowing Ukraine to use their weapons?

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe Iran and North Korea shouldn't have made such an obvious and stupid choice to escalate the conflict by allowing Russia to use their weapons?

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Iran and the DPRK are in no position to allow Russia to do anything.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

North Korea could not have been forced to use their troops to attack Ukraine if Kim Jong Un did not want them too. Iran I'm guessing did not care which hospital their weapons landed in.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You people talk like you think you're at the strategy table in game of thrones, and not one of us mud-covered peasants. I'm willing to bet you know less than nothing about the causes of this war and the dynamics between it's participants.

Iran I'm guessing did not care which hospital their weapons landed in.

Naked projection, your side has been bombing hospitals for a year in Palestine and a century everywhere else.

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

North Korea could not have been forced to use their troops to attack Ukraine if Kim Jong Un did not want them too.

Truly brilliant. Also there is no evidence the DPRK is deploying troops to attack Ukraine.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yes there is. Way more than your imagined threat to "russian" speakers in ukraine.

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

Show it then? It would be much more effective than “yes there is.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6227475

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes there is.

Reasserting your empty claim is not evidence.

Way more than your imagined threat to “russian” speakers in ukraine.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Send in the Wagner PMC group (named after Hitler's favourite composer and co founded by a NAZI) to oppose them Because of course Russia does not have a NAZI problem. (Shame Prigozhin got out of line and had to be murdered in the end.)

"Reasserting your empty claim is not evidence." If you spent 20 seconds more looking you would have found more news reports of the North Korean troops. But you didn't. And I'm not bothering.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you spent 20 seconds more looking you would have found more news reports of the North Korean troops.

I’ve seen the reports. They say those troops are in Russia. If they’ve done anything to date, they’ve defended Russian territory, in Russia.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"they’ve defended Russian territory, in Russia." LOL Prigozhin is dead, he's not doing another march on Moscow.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Had you forgotten that we were talking about North Korea?

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Regardless of this, I do not think we should escalate things with a nuclear power.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Serious question here, but how exactly do you think the world should deal with a dictator armed with nukes? Capitulate at every single threat?

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I don’t know how the world should deal with Biden, truly. Russia is not the power that is issuing threats. NATO did exactly what they recognized for decades would push Russia to invade. Ask how Russia should deal with a foreign power covertly manipulating their neighbor’s politics to elevate Nazis who would go on to bomb Russian speakers.

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

"NATO did exactly what they recognized for decades would push Russia to invade." Which is nothing.

"Ask how Russia should deal with a foreign power covertly manipulating their neighbor’s politics to elevate Nazis who would go on to bomb Russian speakers." LOL Now you are into delusional crackpot territory.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

errmm, actually, history started in February 2022 ☝️🤓

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Putin is a fascist. That is a fact. (so is Trump for that matter) Fascists should be opposed, this is also a fact.

My question is why do you uncritically support fascists?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Putin is a fascist.

[Citation needed]

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He's an absolute dictator who has his (serious) opponents murdered. Seems clear to me.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Right, he’s a dictator who was elected by popular vote, because he’s very popular. Russians have good reason to like him: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country (which is also why the West reviles him). It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We should pick our battles. Do you want to get nuked for Ukraine of all places?

[–] trebor_project@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

So your answer is to capitulate at every threat. Good going.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You do understand this is circular logic right? Why should Russia capitulate to every US or NATO threat?

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago

yeah we lost 90% of the world's population from global nuclear hellfire and the resulting fallout, but for a brief moment there we really showed Putin who's boss!!

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

What's stopping you from going to Ukraine and fighting?

Everyone talks big about war, they just want someone else to fight it

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

Who cares

Seriously

Would you rather you and your whole family gets killed or the lines on the map say Russia? You still don't own the means of production so same shit different asshole.

There is no bourgeois capitalist cause that's worth the death of a single civilian

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago

Your ideology has zero explanatory power in the real world. “Fanatic” means nothing now.