- Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English57•1 year ago
Fuck Putin
- ImmaculateTaint ( @ImmaculateTaint@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
🥵
- Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English21•1 year ago
No, not like that!!
- GiorgioPerlasca ( @GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Alina Kabaeva: «What do you mean not like that?»
- debbie downer ( @debbiedowner@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Username does not check out
- mihor ( @mihor@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Ok, Karen.
- automater ( @automater@lemmy.one ) English13•1 year ago
Well the troll farms have found lemmy I guess
- Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
Lol what?
- MaggiWuerze ( @MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
Don’t feed him
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@kbin.social ) 33•1 year ago
No, Putin. An attack on Belarus is only an attack on Belarus. Someone would have to attack Russia for it to be an attack on Russia. Look at a fucking map.
(Yes, I’m being obtuse, but giving this asshole a hard time makes me smile. Cut me some slack.)
- Duamerthrax ( @Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
So is Belarus going to attack Poland now or is Putin planning a false flag attach again?
- takeda ( @takeda@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
I think it’s probably Wagner was moved there for that reason and putin wants to test if alliance will be afraid to reason.
If NATO responds then he sacrifices just Belarus, but if it won’t then other eastern countries are at risk.
- SomeDude ( @ProcurementCat@feddit.de ) English18•1 year ago
I have a suspicion of what is going on in Putin’s head:
- 2021/early 2022, he thought his military was amazing and could take Ukraine in 3 days
- that went horribly wrong, russian tanks and other weapons exploded all over
- only two options: western weapons are incredibly better than russian weapons, or russian generals are incompetent
- fire generals left and right over 2022, it doesn’t really get any better
- winter break
- 2023, the long dreaded Ukrainian counter offensive is coming
- West has given Ukraine only a handful of weapons, not enough for a sweeping, brutal offensive
- Ukrainian offensive stalls
- Putin’s advisors show him the same destroyed Bradley and Leopard 2 tanks all over, from different angles
- “Holy shitballs russian weapons aren’t inferior to western weapons, it really was just stupid generals, we really destroyed hundreds of NATO tanks”
- fuck yeah, with that sorted out I can take on the baltics and Poland
- _I_ ( @_I_@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Can’t wait for Season 2. Season 2 has been confirmed, right?
- xuxebiko ( @xuxebiko@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
Putin’s standup act is very funny. He should quit his day job & take it up fulltime.
- Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English13•1 year ago
Idk, last guy who laughed at him had his country invaded.
- xuxebiko ( @xuxebiko@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
Putin’s been invading Ukraine since 2014. His 3-day special operation is going on for 514 days, had him running from a mutiny (I need a ride,not ammo!), has killed 241,330 Russians, has the Kerch bridge opening and closing like a fucking accordion, and is a global criminal. And all against a country with no nukes, no navy, barely an airforce, a tenth of Russia’s defense budget, and 28 times smaller than Russia.
He’s losing so badly, the whole world’s laughing at him.As I said earlier, Putin’s standup act is very funny.
- mihor ( @mihor@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
The 3-day myth was entirely a gaffe by the stupid general Milley. I’m not even going to address the other sci-fi numbers you blurted out as they are santa claus type of fantasy.
- xuxebiko ( @xuxebiko@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
get lost, tankie.
- Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.de ) English16•1 year ago
This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs.
- Granite ( @Granite@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Can you cite a source?
Edit: thanks for the sources
- geeking_introvert ( @geeking_introvert@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
It is from a famous speech of Hitler that marked the beginning of the second world war.
- takeda ( @takeda@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
This was fragment of Hitler’s speech on September 1st, 1939.
https://carolynyeager.net/gleiwitz-%E2%80%9Cfalse-flag%E2%80%9D-incident-pure-fiction
- maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) 4•1 year ago
That’s one very weird source you’re linking.
- Finn ( @baascus@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
- ghost_laptop ( @gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Liberal citing Hitler. Checks out.
- takeda ( @takeda@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
- ghost_laptop ( @gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
As far as I remember history tells us that liberal governments turned fascists.
- takeda ( @takeda@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Nazi party was as socialist as North Korea is democratic
- ghost_laptop ( @gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I don’t know where you get the idea from that I’ve said the Nazis were socialists, and I don’t know where you get the idea that social democracies, a.k.a. liberal democracies, a.k.a. dictatorship of the bourgeoisie are socialists. Again, as far as I remember, history tells us that the bourgeois governments are the ones who turn fascist. History repeats itself: Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.
- Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
Putin says a lot of stupid shit he’s incapable
of doing, why would this be different? - TurnItOff_OnAgain ( @TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemdro.id ) English8•1 year ago
I’m not up to snuff on NATO regulations. As I understand it, if a NATO nation gets attacked, the rest of them are obliged to defend, correct? What happens if that nation is “the aggressor”. Like in this situation if Poland were to do a first strike against Belarus or Russia and they respond attacking Poland, is the rest of NATO obliged to help defend Poland?
- photonic_sorcerer ( @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English22•1 year ago
No, NATO doesn’t interfere if a member starts a war. It’s a defensive treaty. That said, Poland alone wouldn’t be able to do much, and democracies rarely openly declare war.
- DauntingFlamingo ( @DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml ) English10•1 year ago
I had a deployment with Polish soldiers. They are a modern and extremely capable defensive force. It would likely turn into the same thing we’re seeing in Ukraine (smaller force that is well trained and better supplied vs sending a lot of bodies and old tech). I don’t think we’ll ever see a Polish led force invading Belarus or Russia without a massive NATO backing and a lot of foreign units already on the way to support them. Defensively, they will fuck you up. Offensively, they don’t have the man power to go deep into enemy territory.
The Polish have historical grudges with Russia and are chomping at the bit to hurt some Russians. It is probably NATO that is holding them back from sending units to Ukraine
- Pyr_Pressure ( @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
However what if a NATO country starts a war with Belarus, and then Russia attacks the NATO country?
The NATO country would never have initiated a war with Russia, they would have initiated it with Belarus.
Does a NATO country automatically become vulnerable if they have any wars currently ongoing? Because that would mean Russia could have attacked America during the war in Afghanistan and NATO would not have been able to get involved.
- takeda ( @takeda@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
The way it works is that the attacked country invokes article 5. If the country does it then other members are obligated to help. If they don’t, they are undermining NATO.
Having said that, NATO doesn’t specify how countries supposed to respond. It could be something to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
I think putin sending Wagner to Belarus is indeed thinking to force Belarus to attack Poland or a Baltic states and see what happens. Of course that would be simple, it would be Belarus vs NATO, and would end up quickly.
So he is tipping the scale and saying that attacking Belarus will be also attacking Russia, hoping that it will be ignored like two Russian missiles hitting Poland. If it won’t be ignored, then he is just sacrificing Belarus.
- • milan • ( @Milan@feddit.nl ) English2•1 year ago
As long as an attack happens on NATO territory, it’s considered an act of war. Even if the NATO country is the aggressor. Ideally the aggressing country would be suspended before they could invoke article 5.
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Unless there is a cover up like happened with those Russian missiles that hit Poland.
- PanPuszek ( @PanPuszek@reddthat.com ) English6•1 year ago
Is it only me or does Putin look really bad in this photo? I mean he seems unhealthy and in addition to that he looks like he aged 10 years in just 2. Amazing speedrun.