• blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
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    8 minutes ago

    That’s just dumb fearmongering. Russia throws all it has against Ukraine and still fails. So what does Putin have left to attack NATO with? Aside from Nukes, obviously.

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    3 hours ago

    Danish government still trying hard to justify their recent purchase of stupid expensive American fighter jets, in a time where we should work towards becoming independent of the US.

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    5 hours ago

    I know Putin is desperate but this seems incredibly foolish. Way more than invading Ukraine.

    Let’s hope they’re wrong because it would be disastrous for everyone.

    If this is legit they should just assassinate Putin and be done with it. Enough is enough.

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      34 minutes ago

      When they say “attack a NATO country” it will probably be a drone that ‘got lost’ or worst case, an ‘uprising of local Russian people’ in eastern Estonia similar to how crimea / Donbass was annexed. Putin doesn’t want war with NATO. He wants to destroy the NATO alliance by testing its resolve.

      Imagine like 500-1000 troops annexe 5 square km in eastern Estonia and call it an uprising. Estonia evokes article 5. On the Russian side of the border sits artillery and troops all zeroed in on that 5 square km. Russia makes a statement saying ‘any attack on free russian people is an attack on Russia’. What does NATO do?

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      5 hours ago

      Are you saying Danish intelligence is worse than average intelligence? As a Norwegian living in Denmark, I can verify this statement.

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    10 hours ago

    Putin knows he’s in trouble. He will have to double down or fold. And we all know that he’s too insane to fold.

    • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      He’d rather be beaten to a pulp by NATO than admit he’s losing to Ukraine. He’s been provoking NATO into retaliation and calling it an unprovoked attack but they’re not biting and are happy to let Ukraine humiliate him some more. The desperate move left is to actually attack a NATO country outright. That it needs to come to this.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        2 hours ago

        He’d rather be beaten to a pulp by NATO

        You seem sure that NATO would respond in a effective way to an attack on any of it’s allies instead of just calling emergency meetings, strongly opposing things and considering sanctions. Personally, seeing how NATO did absolutely nothing after multiple previous attacks on its members I have my doubts.

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        4 hours ago

        He’d rather have his entire population beaten to a pulp by NATO you mean. He doesn’t give a shit what happens to his people, for as long as he doesn’t show a moment of weakness that would result in him falling out of a window.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    This is not a worry.

    Personally, I think Poland alone would break Russia; probably before anybody else was able to mobilize. They are champing at the bit, they pray Putin does this.

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    11 hours ago

    Look, fuck russia sideways with a rusty fork, but I dont think they would attack nato. It would be suicide

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        7 hours ago

        I mean, when the cia under Biden warned it was coming, I felt he was pretty certain. In any case I hope I am right and russia doesn’t try to properly attack a nato country

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          3 hours ago

          Biden warned the world days beforehand, everyone was like this same “yeah bro Russia’s attacking tomorrow, haha, for sure bro” until the tanks rolled across the border.

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        9 hours ago

        Yes they havent “explicitly” targeted a nato country, as per an attack, at least not so intentionally as to cause the other nato countries to respond with direct action.

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      10 hours ago

      Xi Jinping is literally, actually in the fucking White House, right now, and Trump just spent the last week telling Ukraine to stop attacking Russian fuel.

      It would be war and they’ve got a pretty good chance of winning since they’ve already defeated NATO’s largest force.

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          5 hours ago

          Correct. Russia and China have effectively defeated the USA portion of NATO because I truly believe Trump and the GOP would refuse summons from an Article 5.

          Russia and China are the reason Trump is president.

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            5 hours ago

            Maybe. Trump’s power is waning, and it’s hard to predict exactly what he would do anyway. It’s likely democrats will control congress next year and can send aid. If Europe can hold out until 2029, a different president might be more willing to provide active support.

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              With 53 GOP senators Trump is all powerful in the USA. They already purged the military generals and the rest of the federal government employees.

              Resistance is coming from local and state levels which means fuck all for NATO.