• XOXOX@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t think Trump would even retaliate if Putin hit the continental U.S. with a missile strike.

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      2 hours ago

      While he surrounds himself with people in finance and money, the US may be incapable of reacting adequately in the future.

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      6 hours ago

      You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed. Any attack on American soil is open season on tearing up American rights and freedoms. We are still getting buttfucked by the Patriot act and it’s been 24 years since it was signed. You really think Trump is going to ignore all his fellow potheads hothead and turn the other cheek to infallible power?

      Edit: lol autocorrected hothead to pothead🤷‍♂️

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        Worth bearing in mind that we never actually retaliated against the power most closely tied to the attackers.
        Most of the people involved were Saudi and they may have had Saudi assistance. Instead we invaded Afghanistan where he was for a period of time, and Iraq who had nothing to do with anything.

        So Russia attacking the US could plausibly result in us suspending habeus corpus, abolishing the FDA and spending a decade embroiled in a land war in Azerbaijan.

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          30 minutes ago

          Lol why would you repeating exactly the same shit I already wrote in the comment you are responding to be something worth bearing in mind? Either you think your arguing against me or you don’t know what bear in mind means🤣🍻

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      4 hours ago

      Maybe by declareing Marshall law til the “attackers are brought to justice.”

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      7 hours ago

      My tinfoil theory is that Trump and Putin are going to secretly coordinate a direct attack on a Democrat city with a WMD. Trump will then say some BS about not wanting to escalate the war with a shit eating smile

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        More likely would be trump doing exactly what Putin did to secure power. Plant a dirty bomb on your own people and blame someone to start a war. That someone would be democrats which would justify the “enemy within” rhetoric. He wouldn’t be able to do this right away because the “enemy” are illegal immigrants right now so after that has been going in say 3-4 years I’d reckon we’ll see a bomb or two.

        I feel like this would be perfect reason for him and the rest of the Republican Party to justify getting rid of term limits and then scrapping the next election. If trump dies before the next election then they would just use it to scrap the next election

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          Trump to the public: “Oh no! Ukraine set of a bomb in San Francisco/LA/NYC! See people? Putin and Kim Jong Un were the good guys all along!”

          Trump later on a private call: “Did I do good, Daddy Vlad?”

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            Nah they’ve already spread that lie a shit ton already there’s no need to hammer it more. They also have spread it so much they have ample reason (according to them) to pull out of NATO. Now their agenda is making sure democrats can’t gain power ever again

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      7 hours ago

      I’d hope that would be horrific and plain enough to be the “come to Jesus” moment that would start a widespread coup against him. Or at the very least cause one (1) USSS agent to pull their SIG and put one in his head for the team.

      But hope hasn’t gotten us very far recently…

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    6 hours ago

    That’s an article filled with quotes from Pooty-poot, Peskov, and Órban, all of whom I dislike intensely.

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    I don’t care how you feel about the conflict but

    NATO: Escalates by giving and allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with longer range missiles

    Russia: Retaliates

    NATO:

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      Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize the rules were that the defending country had to stay ine their side of the line. So Russia can invade neighbors with impunity, but striking Russian soil is just too far.

      Stop.

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      Lol, interesting way to frame it. Let’s zoom out a bit…

      Russia: Starts it

      Ukraine: Fights back

      Russia: surprised Pikachu

      Russia: Escalates

      Ukraine’s allies: Supports Ukraine

      Russia: Arms on hips guy

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      If you hit someone, dont be surprised when they hit back. Russia can always go home. They are escalating every day they stay. Ukraine needs to be more armed then maybe russia gets the message.

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      1 hour ago

      You’re right, I think that Nato should start sending over some soldiers to “help” out the Ukrainians, the way that the Russians have brought in North Koreans.

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      That’s very naive to think they wonder about it. There is even a threat of a nuclear strike.

      What they do is to plan the next steps.

      In my opinion NATO should prepare for war.

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        That’s very naive to think they wonder about it.

        No, NATO wants escalation I understand that. This was the outcome they wanted.