Supposedly, an RS-26 was launched from Astrakhan and targeted at infrastructure in Dnipro.

4 points

Silly Russians don’t even know what continents are lol.

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What Russia wants us to think:

“O no, allowing Ukraine to fire atacms into Russia was to much escalation! We must back down!”

What we actually think:

“Russia ran out of missiles and has to reach deep down its soviet arsenal to fire the last thing it’s got. Next, they’ll fire an R7”

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31 points

Russia declares US missile base in Poland a target

uh… that would get all of NATO involved, wouldn’t it?

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Yes, an attack on a NATO member would immedialy invoke article 5 (which has only been done once in history - 9/11)

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Well, I’m sure the US military complex is excited to test whether they can swat these out of the sky with their expensive toys. Now they have a chance to try.

And the more Russia launches, surely that technology will improve

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5 points

Why would Trump want to fight Russia? He loves russia

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ruzzia is running out of everything and using its last reserves.

EU and NATO need to pool together every resource to bankrupt this rotten state and drive it from Ukrainian soil. The defeat has to be so harsh that the ruzzkis won’t be able to cross any border forever. Confine them to their own country, period.

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21 points

Pretty sure they did this as nuclear sabre rattling in response to the ATACMS and Storm Shadow attacks, not because of resource constraints.

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73 points

America here…heh. We’re gonna be useless come January!

Actually we might even be working against the cause. It would not surprise me to see trumps cabinet do shitty things like sending russia weapons and money.

In fact, I’m basically expecting it.

Just know that it’s not ALL America. Just like 52% of us…or, I should say 52% of the 2024 voting public.

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51 points

…or, I should say 52% of the 2024 voting public.

No. I hold those who didn’t vote accountable too.

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The moment the Democrats lost the election was the one when Harris was asked what she would do differently than Biden and her answer was basically “nothing”. If you ever run for president and are asked that question, just pick something at random and say “Biden does not enough for X. I would make sure that X would be a priority issue!”

This level of stupidity is not the voter’s (or non-voter’s) fault. Dems made their bed rock and now everyone has to lie in it.

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17 points

Actually we might even be working against the cause.

That would mean destruction of NATO. No European country can be in a defense alliance with a country that actively support an invasion by Russia in Europe.

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27 points

Trump doesn’t care about the NATO. He thinks it’s a big US-led charity organization that protects the weak, poor other countries who rally under the umbrella because murricah is just so superior and cool. I don’t think he actively seeks to destroy it, but if his actions lead to its downfall, he would not be upset at all.

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15 points

That would mean destruction of NATO.

IIRC that’s an explicit Project 2025 goal, but maybe I misremember.

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Yep, he’s probably ending nato. Or at least he keeps promising to do that, and there’s nothing that will stop him, so… Good luck! We’ll all fucking need it!

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12 points

It’s not even 52%, in the end it’s ended up being 50% VS 48.3%. He barely got half of all votes with the overall gap only being 2.6 million votes. That’s razor thin, the only reason it worked out the way it did (apparent “easy win”) is because of the electoral college system, which is a bit biased towards conservatism anyway by giving quite a bit of power to smaller, less populated states.

Besides that, I do agree that it’s a bit of a question what will happen. I’ve seen people say that Rubio and Waltz appear to indicate a slightly different course but no one really knows besides the coming government.

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6 points

Numbers are still coming in, but Trump is less than 50% currently.

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Russia has that black poop from the ground which is a valuable enough resource to be bought by someone for something .

It goes bankrupt if suddenly oil consumption drops 3 times. Or something like that. But not immediately even then, because it has reserves.

EU and NATO are not interested in Russia imploding. They are showing very clearly that their intention is to softly bleed it so that it wouldn’t be too aggressive, but also to preserve its current regime, because that regime is convenient.

It’s just the sad truth.

As to why Western countries always supported said regime, since Yeltsin usurping power in 1993, - I just don’t know.

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The said regime is also happens to be backed nearly universally by the russian population and is the core source of its power.

The “west is to blame” narrative is typical russian victim-hood polemics.

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The said regime is also happens to be backed nearly universally by the russian population and is the core source of its power.

No it’s not. I don’t think you have even been to Russia.

There is a sizeable proportion of population not yet penetrated by the whole idea of democracy, but those would back any “current” regime.

The “west is to blame” narrative is typical russian victim-hood polemics.

In real life everybody is to blame, it’s just a question of proportions.

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