• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly what you do if you want to give Russia a reason to attack NATO.

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      1 year ago

      Russia is getting it’s ass kicked by NATO toys delivered via slow roll. They really aren’t stupid enough to actually attack NATO.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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        1 year ago

        Oh I completely agree… But you can be the biggest baddest dude on the planet… Backing a honey badger into the corner isn’t a good idea.

        I doubt Russia could ever “win”. But it can sure fuck shit up on it’s way out. And if it feels that NATO is a threat, then that might be the direction the munitions go. I’d rather not see any war at all. I just simply don’t see what 3000 more soldiers will accomplish EXCEPT to act as a threat to Russia, which is just shoving them further into a corner.

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      1 year ago

      Sending 3000 reservists to Europe?

      Shit, I’m going there on vacation in a few weeks, that’s definitely provocative.

      I wish they’d try something, they need to learn a lesson about screwing around in Europe.

      Surprised russia sending troops “on vacation” to Crimea wasn’t a reason for nato to bomb half of Russia to shit.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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        1 year ago

        Crimea was Ukrainian territory… It’s not in NATO. Thus not protected by NATO treaty.

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          So wait, your argument is invading another sovereign country isn’t a provocation, but sending reservists into an allied country that welcomes them is?

          Man, Russian logic is complex.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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        1 year ago

        Yes, more senseless war! Ukraine is in the right to protect their territory. But outright wishing for senseless war is stupid as hell.

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          You do realize there’s like 80,000 troops already there in europe? We have bases around the world. I’m not sure how these 3,000 national guard make a difference in your mind, but okay.

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            This is just the start. It’s the exact same way the “weapons assistance” went. First small, then billions of dollars worth of weapons being sent on the regular. It’s to get us used to the idea of even more troops being sent over. The fact that there’s 80k US troops on a foreign continent already doesn’t make it any better. If anything, it provides the context for why Russia is acting irrationally as it is being surrounded by an adversaries military

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                No offense but you sound like an idiot.

                I have just as much a right not to die fighting a foreign war as a Ukrainian has to die fighting for their country.

                Advocating for an increase in US military involvement in a foreign war sounds like someone hasn’t studied the great 20th century conflicts. If you’d like, I am a practicing historian and I can give you a reading list at your literacy level to give you some context for current world events.

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                  So “I have the right to safety and the Ukranians have the right to die” sums up your position?

                  If you want the conflict to end then why aren’t you advocating for Russia to cease their hostility and invasion of a sovereign nation? You seem to only be concerned with people opposing this Russian aggression and the war that they started.

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                    Ukraine is more than capable of defending itself. The US has no obligation whatsoever to that country. I would love if Russia just decided to stop, but I don’t think that’s a likely scenario. What does seem likely is if the us directly commits troops this will escalate the current situation dramatically. Any US involvement will trigger a declaration of war by Russia on the us. That will trigger article 5 of NATO brining all members of the alliance into war. Both side have nuclear weapons which will be used barring some sort of miracle rendering plutonium inert or something.

                    I have just as much a right not to die over some territory on the other side of the world as the Ukrainians do defending their land. Didn’t know that was controversial. Hope you’re ready to die for Ukraine then

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                No offense but you sound blue-eyed and idealistic when history has shown this to be a typical outcome.

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                  Actually the typical outcome was letting hitler take the sudatenland while doing nothing.

                  This is us stopping the typical outcome.

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                    that’s not what they mean

                    they mean “America sending troops over to a foreign country to ‘save them’, and then sending more, and OOPS now we’ve started a war there and we’re already racking up those war crimes, and now the civilians there literally see us as goddamn evil and they’re not even wrong to think that way because it turns out that we were basically there mainly doing heinous shit so that the nation was in a position where they kinda had to let us have a share of their resources so rich old white men back home can add an extra 3 zeroes to their bank accounts” was something we literally did for the last 2 decades

                    it is very much the one of the likely historical outcomes of “now the US gets militarily involved”

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                but I mean, we did basically that already

                like relatively recently

                in the middle east

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                  In the middle east, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Here, Russia is the invader. The two situations aren’t comparable.

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            To me, the issue is that it increased. Whether by a small amount or not is rather meaningless if your complaint is that troops are being committed at all. It could have increased by 30 troops and (although it wouldn’t have made news) it would bother me.

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                People are mean to me that I’m advocating for a senseless war with a nuclear element. Since obviously I can’t be wrong I’m taking my ball and hiding in my echo chamber

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                  “I’m happy that Russia invaded Ukraine and I want nothing to do with it, I’m sure they’ll be fine”.

                  • klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net
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                    Not happy about Russia invading Ukraine but also not happy about the US potentially escalating to WW3. Ukraine is not worth a nuclear Holocaust

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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                LMFAO Like this is a valid excuse. Only 2 people in this comments section is from Lemmy.ml. Everyone else is commenting here from different servers.

                What a truly stupid take.

                • barsoap@lemm.ee
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                  lemmy.ml is federated with lemmygrad.ml, and both are old instances (also run by the same people but that’s less relevant here). Point being is that all the people on tankie central are subscribed to [email protected] for their worldnews community and thus you get a certain voting pattern you don’t see in other worldnews communities even if you don’t see any lemmygrad.ml users commenting.

      • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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        I’m guessing you are in voluntary reserves then, right? Because to advocate for sending others to die in a needless war, when you yourself aren’t volunteering to do exactly that, is hypocritical and frankly ghoulish.