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Good.
Give them a nuke back. Them relinquishing theirs assuming good faith by the Russians is half the reason this mess started. If they get one back it makes a push for total control of Ukraine an existential risk for Russia.
Edit: Before someone points it out, yes I'm being wildly naive, let me dream about a good outcome a little.
Granted.
They don't have to actually get the nuke back.
Everyone just has to think they did. The idea is just as much a weapon as the bomb itself.
The old squirt-gun pistol routine, lol.
I was a grunt not a rocket scientist so serious question: do we have missiles they can load in the old Soviet silos or would it have to be a SCUD situation?
Either way, giving Kyiv a giant middle finger to wave at Moscow on the way out would be an epic mic drop moment for Biden.
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Now 'ere's what crazy-ol' u/peopleproblems would do. Crazy ol' u/peopleroblems would come to the sum of bitches we have in Acquisitions, and say 'how many weeks could a force of exactly Ukraine's force hold a position with everything we have currently sitting in storage deployment ready, but not otherwise deployed? Ok, and how about all the equipment we have being delivered under contract for that many weeks? Ok, now, get me a number to replace all that equipment with the newest contracts set to immediately fill everything we send for that first chunk. Ok, now double it, and phone the pencil pushers to get procurement offers for this shit from the defense manufacturers. Yes, definitely let their boards know too. Oh, don't mention where the already purchased equipment is going, that's national security interest. Just mention the US is interested in making them rich in turn for securing our country for a long time."
"And give that number to Congress?"
"Once the various board members hear first. We gotta feed the handlers before we treat the pawns in Congress."
"Sir is that, legal?"
"It's an official act. I just made it legal."
I get the sentiment.
But i just want to make sure that everyone here knows that biden doesnt have carte blanche to do what he wants because hes not exactly aligned with the conservative supreme court that decides if its an official act or not.
I see this shit all the time and with the way the election went, im pretty convinced that the american electorate is dumb enough to think biden is actually immune.
In this case, I don't think SCOTUS would be able to do much. They tied their own hands on the "official presidential act" thing. It would have to be up to congress.
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Tbh, from what I’ve read, it sounds a lot like Sullivan is the primary character behind all the hesitancy and pussy-footing and restrictions around the military aid coming from the US. As far as I understand it, Sullivan still seems deathly afraid that Russia is some big military bogeyman, when the outcome of the last two years has revealed them to be anything but, and whose only real “virtue” is a willingness to enthusiastically use meat waves at a strategic level. I’m concerned that Sullivan will continue to slow-walk everything, despite the circumstances.
I love how people in America voted Dems out because they're struggling to feed their families, and Biden's only priorities here are keeping his scumbag son out of prison and making sure war is escalated as much as possible before his term ends.
Great stuff, Genocide Joe.
I'm pretty sure Ukraine not defending itself would escalate the war, what with it resulting in Russia taking over the rest of the country.
Although I suppose that would eventually end it. Maybe in the way you want?
I love how uneducated people didn't vote at all and allowed a sexual predator and Russian asset to become president, again.
Great stuff ruskies, but you forgot one thing. never eat the pickle, because you'll choke.
I love how uneducated people didn’t vote at all
They're not uneducated. They're desperate, and they spent the last 8 years watching both parties ignore how much they're struggling. Why miss a day of work when you know your vote doesn't matter?
Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.
Spend 8 years watching both parties ignote their struggles, and then vote for the one that's actively promising to make them worse?
Bold move, Cotton.
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They're not uneducated.
They clearly are since they acted against their best interests and only the uneducated and insufferably weak willed work against themselves.
Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.
you seem to be under the misconception that I'm trying to win people to my cause. I refuse to pander to their absurd ideals and will not coddle them like children.
point blank, I don't give a damn about their fragile sensibilities about whatever political wedge they want to believe in on a whim.
the people who refused to vote, that allowed this to happen, could rot in the streets as far as I care. They are simply a distraction from the true enemy, Russia and China.
I will do everything within my power to resist Russian and Chinese aggressions. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I know I'm going to do everything I can to be a huge pain in the ass for them.
this includes but is not limited to the netizens who have and are spreading their propaganda.
every raging river starts as a flowing stream.
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Escalated? Oh do tell me how exactly that's going to work. We're already at a full scale invasion with nearly a million casualties. What, are they going to invade harder? Fuck off, spew russian propaganda elsewhere. If you need help grasping the concept, here's a handy chart.
Hey, quick question, which country invade Ukraine? Did the US, is that how they are escalating? Oh wait, no it was russia that did it. Right you meant to blame russia for doing this right?
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Yeah... This is going to Ukraine, so yeah it's just kind of important.
Unless you are one of these people that think Russia should be allowed to just have Ukraine.
"the Ukraine" referred to the region while it was still part of the Russian/Soviet empire. Nowadays just "Ukraine" is the better way to say it, from what I understand.
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Big round of golf claps for the "bleed Russia out slowly " strategy.
Top men.... top men.
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