German intelligence warns Putin preparing Nato assault by end of decade
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America is going to be balls deep in greenland and europe will not go to war over THAT.
If the EU won't consider themselves to be at war when the part of the EU defensive pact zone that is called Greenland is invaded, they're losing all credibility both internally and externally. Why would the EU defend Finland or the Baltics or Cyprus? Why would the EU organize against foreign powers funding violent rebellions inside EU territory (similar to how Russia funded Transnistria or the US funded the contras in Nicaragua)?
There is no better red line for France to launch their nukes than the invasion of Greenland. As seen with Russia, any grace given to cult of personality dictators only emboldens them and their worshipers. The only fair response to madman theory is to call the 'insane' administration's bluff and let the people who don't want them and their families to become radioactive piles of ash take the responsibility of defying insane orders.
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Wouldn’t Russia have to suddenly produce a lot more young men who are still alive to invade any more countries?
Men who are still alive
Oh no... Putin found Dunharrow. Being alive isn't needed.
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If we keep it conventional, we could bring about a new dark age. It would have to go nuclear before we start wondering if the deep sea tube worms will survive. We can definitely end humanity unilaterally, we might need Russia's help to boil the oceans.
Nuclear war would actually cool the oceans. All nuclear bombs combined contain about the same energy as Hurricane Katrina or a small supervolcano eruption. There would be a small fraction of a degree of temporary increase in global atmospheric temperatures, quickly overwhelmed by the nuclear winter as ash and dust in the upper atmosphere reduce global temperatures by several degrees for several years.
The only way I see humanity boiling the oceans is by deliberately releasing global-industrial quantities of super-effective greenhouse gases, actively designed to make the Earth as well-insulated as possible.
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Thank you for reminding me to block lemm.ee with your sad propaganda
Interesting. Why block the whole instance? Have you seen a lot of lemm.ee users parroting propaganda? I didn't realize that instance was so bad.
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Interesting. Why block the whole instance? Have you seen a lot of lemm.ee users parroting propaganda? I didn't realize that instance was so bad.
Over the months the amount of shit from that instance has convinced me they have zero value or worth, among others
I mean, ymmv, for all I know their ideals may resonate with you, but for me I am more than convinced it is a proper choice.
On reddit, 2/3rds of the time I spent there in the last few years has been blocking people to curate my engagement
Lemmy makes it so easy, I don't have to do it one at a time now.
So my procedure is thus: after the 5 rancid comments in a day from users of any given instance, I go and browse the instance. If I keep finding unchallenged rancid replies, then fuck that instance. Lemm.ee has been on my radar for a while now
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Wouldn’t Russia have to suddenly produce a lot more young men who are still alive to invade any more countries?
If only they had an asset in the US who could provide those.
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Thank you for reminding me to block lemm.ee with your sad propaganda
How is this propaganda?
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But it only takes one to ruin a weekend.
I don't think at that point my weekend is ruined. It's more like it has ceased to exist. Or matter.
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Wouldn’t Russia have to suddenly produce a lot more young men who are still alive to invade any more countries?
No, it'd have to ensure France. Which means if they struck France could nuke Moscow. If. Anyone in Russia gave a shit, they'd slaughter Putin family now.
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Maybe. There's no guarantee that every European nation would be on board with sanctioning the US in this scenario.
The Netherlands (where I believe they have the only manufacturing base of the machines that make advanced chips) might decide that it's not in their best interest to cut the US off.
Anyways I hope this Greenland shenanigans dies on the vine and my silly scenario never comes to pass.
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They barely could handle a war with small Ukraine, a full scale war with NATO is a no-go; and I'm quite certain Putin won't live that long
Presidents have access to the best medical resources, and Putin seems to be in fine shape. He could live 10 more years. I'm saying that in the hope of a pleasant surprise.
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Based on intel from my MI buddies, most of Putin's nukes are probably nonfunctional. They tried to test one not long ago and it blew up, taking out the entire launch facility.
Russia's nukes are more or less a bluff.
So you want to play nuclear poker ? You're a mad-man
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How is this propaganda?
Because it is written with an ulterior motive to support abhorrent ideals and values
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Yes ASML is only in netherlands. Nothing else on earth produces EUV lithography machines of that scale. It's a single monopoly
Also netherlands & Hungary definitely won't sanction usa, they love trump
No, they don't. But nevertheless, they make the machines and money is more worth than not selling it to exactly everyone
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Because it is written with an ulterior motive to support abhorrent ideals and values
What values are that? That treating russia as a non-threat is wrong?
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They already do from the occupied areas right? If they get the rest of Ukraine they'll have all the manpower they'll ever need... This is just yet another reason to intervene with troops in Ukraine now. Ukraine falling is an existential threat to European peace, freedom and prosperity. Not to mention Ukraines massive military industry.
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I'm not saying to assume they don't all work. I'm saying to diaregard their threats of using thembecause they likely won't.
Consider this, if only 10% of the warheads work that still leaves over 400 working bombs. Even in the unlikely situation where Russia didn't know which ones where in working condition they could just resort to throwing 10 bombs at a target instead.
We also haven't even defined what not-working means. You could for example classify a hydrogen bomb that doesn't trigger it's fusion stage as non-working. The primary stage of a thermonuclear bomb can still have a yield of a few hundred kilotons of TNT. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki where well below that.
For these reasons I consider the "Russian nukes don't work" a nice fantasy at best. The threat is real and only kept in check by western nuclear counterstrike capabilities.
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Lol I live here and I gotta say, Id sign off on us being renamed to The States of America, we are the most not united thing to ever exist.
With the word United in it or not, that name is still ambiguous. America is a continent, the Brits conquered the North and a nation was born.
Meanwhile, incipient republics in the south were able to resist British Invasions with help of European Monarchies.
Or something like that.
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