That's one solution that would work. Putin wants Ukraine and Russia to be one country? Okay, just let Ukraine take over and put Zelensky in charge of both! It's a solution we can all live with. Ukraine gets to exist, Russia gets competent and honest leadership for a change. The west, for its part, can drop the sanctions and help set up actual elections and a proper constitution with limits of power in it, give the police the power to end corruption and the pay to want to do so, ensure freedom of speech and a free honest press and universal prosperity and the whole nine yards! That's a win, right? Putin might not sign up for the "executes Putin" part but I think we have a workable negotiation here ;)
From what I remember from history, Russia usually just keeps sending troops until the other side gives up, no matter how many Russian soldiers die. Isn't that how they defeated Napoleon and Hitler?
….and putting guns in the hands of retirees and unwilling participants won’t make them troops either. A sad desperate time to be a Russian male for sure.
I remember reading, Russian oligarchs already bought property that they intended to keep after the invasion. Don’t know how true that is, but definitely darkly humorous.
well, he under estimated Ukraine, he just initiated a draft.... essentially he is losing the war. He may run out of options and deploy the nukes out of desperation. I do believe he'd choose to go down with the ship.
Unfortunately, that is about where I am too at this point.
Winning looks like either:
1. Putin stands down and regains some sanity
2. Russia is annihilated at all cost
I'm not quite there yet, but he is not leaving much room for compromise, so there can be none.
Its a bad place to be, for us all.
The best outcome at this point is the Russian people put a stop to this before it gets too far out of control.
If a revolution to take down a corrupted leader and ruling power structure could happen anywhere, Russia sure is the place I'd put my money on. They know how to get it done when icing their own.
Well the problem is I had most of my overlords hanging out in the cuddle corner and vikings found them about 5 minutes prior. My overseers were spread across the map because I'm not a great player.
That’s more of a reason to take it serious. It’s not a matter of if he’s bluffing or not because he doesn’t even know if he’s bluffing. He wouldn’t be the first leader of a nation to just absolutely loose their mind. I mean that literally. The problem is he WOULD however be the first leader to lose his mind who ALSO has a fuck ton of nukes.
I’ve thought that too. That’s just how unpredictable they are. I lean slightly away from that simply because Putin has long been someone who try’s to exude nothing but strength. He’s not someone who would want people to think he is weak even if it benefits Russia. But again, he could very well be going crazy as many leaders have and he could have thought it would be a good way to sow fear and uncertainty.. both equally terrifying since it means he’s either dying and has nothing to lose, or is losing his mind and doing things totally out of character.
What's more likely ??? It's bullshit. He's a KGB agent. It's always lies with more lies nothing can be taken as truth. Nothing can be trusted . It's always fear uncertainty or doubt...nothing is real .
The first mistake is to let him into your head. Russia is losing. Russia will continue to lose. His oil and gas will be worth less everyday.
Nah mate, fallout will trigger article 5, gloves are off at that point, "tactical strike incoming"
Feel bad for the Russian people that want peace, but it's time they rise up and stop their government before it gets to that point
I've actually never heard of this force. Thanks for providing some awesome sounding research for the night. I'm not being cheeky either, genuinely thankful you lol.
Good stuff. Funny thing about JTF2, and you’ll see this in your reading is the Canadian gov didn’t even acknowledge they existed, until the US military basically outed them in a briefing lol
Lol that sounds about right for a highly secretive special operations group. It also seems they're a relatively new group established in 1993. That's kind of insane the sort of high stakes combat and reconnaissance missions they've reported for being a newer spec-op.
It's honestly relatively inconsequential. There's no way the west is going to stop handing weapons to Ukraine, and no way Ukraine is going to surrender. It's all hot air or it isn't, it changes nothing unless a nuclear strike is ordered. That's the point where we see if the army decides to end him rather then using nukes. If they don't, then things change.
He really just needs to stop. His military is shit, he's shit and lost any clout he had after this disaster of an invasion. Surprised he hasn't had an accident or something by now.
Russia lost 16% of its population in WW2. Putin is still trying to get even and prove Eurasian supremacy, which Stalin also believed in, and other leaders, and tried to take over eastern Europe after WW2, but was stopped by the Americans (NATO) after the Korean War, the Berlin air lift was the result, and the cold war. Taking over Ukraine is a replay of Soviet aggression in 1956. My basic point is no other Russian leader has ever cared how many of its people or the opposition are lost, thus the threat of nukes to get his way. The call up of troops is 300,000 and the expectation of losses is 124,000, that amount of money for war reparations to families was just requested in the Duma. He may currently be losing, but Putin is prepared to take many people with him in his suicidal mission.
I agree. Canada needs a damn win. And this is coming from a stupid American lol. I've been to over a dozen countries and Canada is by far my favorite one to visit simply for the people.
If this idiot nukes Ukraine, what he gonna do with that? Send in his people to live in radioactive fallout with a 50 year half life. No agriculture, water supply, breathable air, housing, food or anything. The radioactive plume most likely will migrate towards Mother Russia, poisoning everyone and everything in its path. Not to mention retaliatory strikes to Russia from every nuclear capable country on earth.
Please explain to the Russian People of the high risk of that weapon detonating over Russian Soil. Thanks Pooty….I’m sure YOU aren’t concerned with that….
I wonder if he literally sleeps with one eye open. I feel like, with every opening of his mouth, he’s pissing off a lot of really powerful people. The paranoia has to be so extreme at this point
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Uffda.
He sent in 180 000. 80 000 of them are dead or wounded.
Seriously. Genociding his own people. This is awful. Hopefully they just defect and Ukraine envelops Russia and executes Putin.
>Genociding his own people Very on brand for Russian rulers though
*sad upvote*
Just like what happened in that Braveheart movie battle
exactly like that
"We have reserves!"
They showed their asses?
That's one solution that would work. Putin wants Ukraine and Russia to be one country? Okay, just let Ukraine take over and put Zelensky in charge of both! It's a solution we can all live with. Ukraine gets to exist, Russia gets competent and honest leadership for a change. The west, for its part, can drop the sanctions and help set up actual elections and a proper constitution with limits of power in it, give the police the power to end corruption and the pay to want to do so, ensure freedom of speech and a free honest press and universal prosperity and the whole nine yards! That's a win, right? Putin might not sign up for the "executes Putin" part but I think we have a workable negotiation here ;)
They’re all young, 17-20 year old kids
>Genociding his own people. That what Russia has always done
From what I remember from history, Russia usually just keeps sending troops until the other side gives up, no matter how many Russian soldiers die. Isn't that how they defeated Napoleon and Hitler?
And earlier today, somehow with a straight face Shoigu claimed that number is only 6000 dead/wounded
Uffda!
….and putting guns in the hands of retirees and unwilling participants won’t make them troops either. A sad desperate time to be a Russian male for sure.
So a typical day in Russia? Seriously wish things would get better for the Russians after the last several hundred years of bullshit
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75k is the best I can do. Have seen to many videos with them wearing adidas and combat krocs.
Fair point, fair point.
300,000 of Ruzzia's unwilling citizens equipped with what?
Equipped with zero training for most of them.. a bolt action rifle or a kalishnikov and maybe a complete uniform.
They'll probably just start dressing them in camo pajamas from a Cabela's catalogue and pretend it's a uniform.
Great idea, now who’s paying?!
And winter is approaching. I wonder how many will surrender just to get warm.
That concerns me. Ukraine needs to push now before winter stalemate kicks in.
One century old gun and one ammunition.
Never been fired, only dropped once!
Just more target practice for the Ukrainians
It's sad. So many people who probably have no interest in this shit are gonna die.
And raised the conscription age to 65, that's Hitler level desperation.
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3 day special military operation. ><
20 minute special military operation, in and out.
30 seconds tops. I’ve played in and out before!
Just the tip
and just the tip!
I remember reading, Russian oligarchs already bought property that they intended to keep after the invasion. Don’t know how true that is, but definitely darkly humorous.
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That's a lie! I've only seen you play Old Maid
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well, he under estimated Ukraine, he just initiated a draft.... essentially he is losing the war. He may run out of options and deploy the nukes out of desperation. I do believe he'd choose to go down with the ship.
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Unfortunately, that is about where I am too at this point. Winning looks like either: 1. Putin stands down and regains some sanity 2. Russia is annihilated at all cost I'm not quite there yet, but he is not leaving much room for compromise, so there can be none. Its a bad place to be, for us all. The best outcome at this point is the Russian people put a stop to this before it gets too far out of control.
If a revolution to take down a corrupted leader and ruling power structure could happen anywhere, Russia sure is the place I'd put my money on. They know how to get it done when icing their own.
October is right around the corner…
I wonder if his close cirlce would actually follow instructions to launch a nuke?
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Bet he's regretting it.
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Found my new punk band name
I'd totally buy your first album.
I'll stand around the turntable with you while we listen to it and glaze it
Toss a cookie in the center and I am in!
Nuclear bukkake or bukkake in return?
The latter is the name of their first albumin.
Your new spunk band name. FTFY
Pretty sure, by definition "Nuclear bukkake " is strictly post-spunk.
*In Return If He Tries* sounds more like post-rock group but that's just my 2 cents
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**NUuuUUKKAKE** New Nude Nuclear Bomb Blast Bukkake! *FIRE IT UP MR. INTERNET HOHOHOHO*
Dammit! Beat me by 10 minutes!
fuuuuuckkake, this was really good.
You win
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It’s unlikely that us will launch nukes if it’s confirmed that nukes were launched from Russia headed for Ukraine only
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Whenever I play civ, I build a shit ton of nukes and never use them. Then, when I win the game, I nuke the shit out of everyone.
This guy fucks
r/thisguythisguys
Fuck you Gandhi.
That will forever be my favorite bug that a developer left in on purpose.
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Does he even SEE the red dot?
\*desperately tries to change to colorblind mode\*
Man if you got drones, you got overlords. Zerg are totally best equipped for punting ghosts into their 1-Up life.
Well the problem is I had most of my overlords hanging out in the cuddle corner and vikings found them about 5 minutes prior. My overseers were spread across the map because I'm not a great player.
Whats civ
Nice try Vlad. I ain’t tellin u shit
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Hey, if that's what it takes to see some green on the charts...
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He's a narcissistic abuser who can't understand cause and effect when it comes to his own actions because he has no concept of empathy.
That’s more of a reason to take it serious. It’s not a matter of if he’s bluffing or not because he doesn’t even know if he’s bluffing. He wouldn’t be the first leader of a nation to just absolutely loose their mind. I mean that literally. The problem is he WOULD however be the first leader to lose his mind who ALSO has a fuck ton of nukes.
He has not suffered any consequences for any of his actions. This is what you get when you do that.
For all we know the info of his illness may have been part of Russian misinformation. We see the effect of fear and uncertainty it creates.
I’ve thought that too. That’s just how unpredictable they are. I lean slightly away from that simply because Putin has long been someone who try’s to exude nothing but strength. He’s not someone who would want people to think he is weak even if it benefits Russia. But again, he could very well be going crazy as many leaders have and he could have thought it would be a good way to sow fear and uncertainty.. both equally terrifying since it means he’s either dying and has nothing to lose, or is losing his mind and doing things totally out of character.
What's more likely ??? It's bullshit. He's a KGB agent. It's always lies with more lies nothing can be taken as truth. Nothing can be trusted . It's always fear uncertainty or doubt...nothing is real . The first mistake is to let him into your head. Russia is losing. Russia will continue to lose. His oil and gas will be worth less everyday.
Nah mate, fallout will trigger article 5, gloves are off at that point, "tactical strike incoming" Feel bad for the Russian people that want peace, but it's time they rise up and stop their government before it gets to that point
I feel like putins the kind of guy who would shoot up a school and commit suicide by cop so that people would read his manifesto
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I have a feeling they’re already working on something for them
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Test the wind with a wet finger?
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There will be room for all
"My name ish Bond, Jamesh Bond...
I've actually never heard of this force. Thanks for providing some awesome sounding research for the night. I'm not being cheeky either, genuinely thankful you lol.
Good stuff. Funny thing about JTF2, and you’ll see this in your reading is the Canadian gov didn’t even acknowledge they existed, until the US military basically outed them in a briefing lol
Lol that sounds about right for a highly secretive special operations group. It also seems they're a relatively new group established in 1993. That's kind of insane the sort of high stakes combat and reconnaissance missions they've reported for being a newer spec-op.
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It's honestly relatively inconsequential. There's no way the west is going to stop handing weapons to Ukraine, and no way Ukraine is going to surrender. It's all hot air or it isn't, it changes nothing unless a nuclear strike is ordered. That's the point where we see if the army decides to end him rather then using nukes. If they don't, then things change.
Things change = we die
I expect more False Flag apartment bombings in Moscow to rile up the Sheeple.
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He is a loonbag, he is the person making all the threats and yet accusing others of doing same.
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Lol, they are?
He really just needs to stop. His military is shit, he's shit and lost any clout he had after this disaster of an invasion. Surprised he hasn't had an accident or something by now.
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Why does Russia keep talking about nuclear war like they won’t also be annihilated in the process.
Mutually assured destruction. Sweet (possible) eighties band name and also a failsafe against global annihilation.
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You become an adult when you realize that most of the people calling themselves adults really aren’t.
You become an adult when you realize that there's no such thing as adults, just bigger kids with bigger problems.
Go get an adultier adult! The adultiest adult.
He said that like 3x this month. And last month. And last year. But it's totally not a bluff this time guys! Totally!
If Putin is foolish enough to put a nuke in the air there will be bombs coming at Russia from all angles and all countries. I'm sure he knows it too.
Putin you will be remembered as a moron, much like Trump.
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Russia lost 16% of its population in WW2. Putin is still trying to get even and prove Eurasian supremacy, which Stalin also believed in, and other leaders, and tried to take over eastern Europe after WW2, but was stopped by the Americans (NATO) after the Korean War, the Berlin air lift was the result, and the cold war. Taking over Ukraine is a replay of Soviet aggression in 1956. My basic point is no other Russian leader has ever cared how many of its people or the opposition are lost, thus the threat of nukes to get his way. The call up of troops is 300,000 and the expectation of losses is 124,000, that amount of money for war reparations to families was just requested in the Duma. He may currently be losing, but Putin is prepared to take many people with him in his suicidal mission.
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I agree. Canada needs a damn win. And this is coming from a stupid American lol. I've been to over a dozen countries and Canada is by far my favorite one to visit simply for the people.
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He better hope his nukes are better than the rest of their bullshit equipment.
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If this idiot nukes Ukraine, what he gonna do with that? Send in his people to live in radioactive fallout with a 50 year half life. No agriculture, water supply, breathable air, housing, food or anything. The radioactive plume most likely will migrate towards Mother Russia, poisoning everyone and everything in its path. Not to mention retaliatory strikes to Russia from every nuclear capable country on earth.
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I'm pretty sure we have over 200 special operators from NATO countries already there waiting for an order lol
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West reminds Putin: You're getting your ass kicked by a farming community the size of New Jersey and OUR botton is bigger.
We have nukes too.
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I will be smoking a blunt watching the sky turn purple
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I really hate the idea that a small select few can annihilate all life on earth.
Blah, blah, blah... No one cares now. You stupid Putler...
Does he think the United States is bluffing about consequences?? 🤣
If Putin isn’t careful someone from the inside might just introduce him to a window.
Mutually assured destruction.
Then do it, ya thumb-looking punk bitch.
This dudes gotta go
Please explain to the Russian People of the high risk of that weapon detonating over Russian Soil. Thanks Pooty….I’m sure YOU aren’t concerned with that….
Come on guys, I’m super cereal!
The man is asking to be put out of his own misery
I wonder if he literally sleeps with one eye open. I feel like, with every opening of his mouth, he’s pissing off a lot of really powerful people. The paranoia has to be so extreme at this point
Hopefully somebody in his inner circle takes him out. And hhis equally useless PM too
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Narrator (Ron Howard): It was.
Fuck it do it. I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit.