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Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:55 am**

Based on how everything else is going for them, how confident are we that their nukes will even do anything?

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:00 am**

Cakedaddy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:55 am Based on how everything else is going for them, how confident are we that their nukes will even do anything?

I think we’ve seismically recorded nuke tests of pretty big scale in Russia. And we know they can shoot ballistic and cruise missiles - their cruise missiles being the most effective in this war. So like you said before - even in a best case scenario, some cities get nuked.

This is if the USA were to get involved though. Clearly the Russians fucking hate our guts.

There are some armies in Europe that could turn the tide by themselves. Poland, France, Finland? End of list. I wonder if they would be as itchy to nuke countries that close to their own borders.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:19 am**

Oh - Turkey has a huge army… but they do joint patrols with the Russians in Syria… so… yeah wishful thinking. Just keep the TB2s coming!

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:56 am**

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:19 am Just keep the TB2s coming!

I am unfamiliar with this version of Tom Brady?

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:06 am**

You know.

I've been generally dismissing all the "russian propaganda!" claims in our elections. I sided on the side that it was free speech, and regular people weren't dumb enough to fall for it. But seeing how half of russians believe their own propaganda about "we aren't' attacking ukraine civilians targets, we are liberating them!" I'm coming around to the idea that people are too stupid to be allowed any participation in the government that controls them, until they prove they aren't idiots.

10 idiots is amusing. 10 million have the power to make catastrophic decisions. Enough is enough. Starship Troopers Now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/worl ... ilies.html

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:19 am**

Advance Wars Switch game delayed due to Russian war "in light of recent events"

This game was originally released 9/10/2001.

The game's release in Japan and Europe was delayed, supposedly due to the September 11 attacks in the United States.

Is this game cursed? Should Nintendo stop publishing it?

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:16 pm**

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:56 am
Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:19 am Just keep the TB2s coming!
I am unfamiliar with this version of Tom Brady?

Ukrainians already have a song for this drone.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:15 pm**

“This threatens the change of public opinion in Russia, the destabilization of our power structures... with the possibility of a full destabilization of the country and a civil war. This apocalyptic scenario is based on the script written by the Americans. They benefit through us dragging out the military operation. We need to end it somehow. If we achieved the demilitarization and freed the Donbas, that is sufficient... I have a hard time imagining taking cities such as Kyiv. I can’t imagine how that would look. If this picture starts to transform into an absolute humanitarian disaster, even our close allies like China and India will be forced to distance themselves from us. This public opinion, with which they’re saturating the entire world, can play out badly for us... Ending this operation will stabilize things within the country.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-russ ... in-trouble

We know, bro. Funny that this is suddenly a script that WE are writing, though.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:21 pm**

Fox news is keeping their morale up. Unbelievable.

To lighten the mood in the studio, the host resorted to one of the favorite pastimes of many Kremlin propagandists: playing yet another Fox News clip of Tucker Carlson and his frequent guest Ret. Col. Doug Macgregor. In the translated video, Macgregor predicted Russia’s easy military victories over Ukraine and its total invincibility to Western sanctions. Soloviev sighed and smiled: “He’s a lot more optimistic than my previous experts in the studio.”

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:05 pm**

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:15 pm
“This threatens the change of public opinion in Russia, the destabilization of our power structures... with the possibility of a full destabilization of the country and a civil war. This apocalyptic scenario is based on the script written by the Americans. They benefit through us dragging out the military operation. We need to end it somehow. If we achieved the demilitarization and freed the Donbas, that is sufficient... I have a hard time imagining taking cities such as Kyiv. I can’t imagine how that would look. If this picture starts to transform into an absolute humanitarian disaster, even our close allies like China and India will be forced to distance themselves from us. This public opinion, with which they’re saturating the entire world, can play out badly for us... Ending this operation will stabilize things within the country.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-russ ... in-trouble

We know, bro. Funny that this is suddenly a script that WE are writing, though.

A nuke in Kiev would close up their operation immediately.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:24 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:05 pm
Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:15 pm
“This threatens the change of public opinion in Russia, the destabilization of our power structures... with the possibility of a full destabilization of the country and a civil war. This apocalyptic scenario is based on the script written by the Americans. They benefit through us dragging out the military operation. We need to end it somehow. If we achieved the demilitarization and freed the Donbas, that is sufficient... I have a hard time imagining taking cities such as Kyiv. I can’t imagine how that would look. If this picture starts to transform into an absolute humanitarian disaster, even our close allies like China and India will be forced to distance themselves from us. This public opinion, with which they’re saturating the entire world, can play out badly for us... Ending this operation will stabilize things within the country.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-russ ... in-trouble

We know, bro. Funny that this is suddenly a script that WE are writing, though.
A nuke in Kiev would close up their operation immediately.

We can only hope the fact that Kyiv and Moscow are like 11 hours drive plays into their thinking here.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:25 pm**

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:00 am Poland, France, Finland? End of list.

The UK and Germany would like a word.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:19 am Advance Wars Switch game delayed due to Russian war "in light of recent events"

There was a new Advance Wars game coming and I didn't know about it!!! WTF!!! Thank you Catt!

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:15 pm Funny that this is suddenly a script that WE are writing, though.

It really is amazing when you hit that moment in life, that not everyone hits, where you begin to see how people spin things to fit their own needs. They will believe it to their core no matter what evidence is presented to them that proves they are wrong.

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:21 pm Fox news is keeping their morale up. Unbelievable.

Tucker Carlson is easily one of the worst human beings on the planet right now. You have to be a special level of evil to spread the hate that he does and still sleep at night.

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:05 pm A nuke in Kiev would close up their operation immediately.

Interesting scenario. What does the world's response look like to that? How many more sanctions can be put on Russia? All of Russia's allies probably have to condemn the move. Most of the fallout would travel east, and thus, directly to Russia.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:31 pm**

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:25 pm
Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:00 am Poland, France, Finland? End of list.
The UK and Germany would like a word.

UK army is a joke, has been a problem for years. They spend all their money on Navy and RAF.

Germany would literally be the last army on my list. Deutchebank launders Russian money. They are not who you think they are.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:34 pm**

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:30 pm UK army is a joke, has been a problem for years. They spend all there money on Navy and RAF.

They have very good special forces and their RAF would probably win the air war overnight. However, I do concede that their regular army probably is nothing to brag about at this time.

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:30 pm Germany would literally be the last army on my list.

I legit thought Germany had the largest army in Europe. Is that not the case?

Troy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:30 pm Deutchebank launders Russian money. They are not who you think they are.

To be fair, watching China openly commit every atrocity known to man while the rest of the world takes their bribe money...I don't think much of any country anymore. I think they're all full of shit.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:37 pm**

Nothing from the Germans have done since the war kicked off has convinced me they would use that army effectively, or deliberately.

They are seriously economically tied to Russia. To the point that their hands are tied in this.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:39 pm**

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/10/deutsch ... iness.html

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:40 pm**

Yep, that's gross.

Be cool if some rich folks and corps would pull out of that bank.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:41 pm**

UK Army being a joke is overstated - they have their reasons for the choices they made and are as Anti Russia as any. There just isn't much of it.

I'm sure they are good soldiers. But I have been hearing / reading stuff for years about underfunded and staffed UK army units.

Last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56477900

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 5:01 pm**

I don't question your take at all. I mean, I think a Chinese army as a threat to the U.S. is a joke. They could be 3 billion strong, but it's meaningless to us because they cannot get here.

The UK, being a smaller nation, would definitely have a smaller army than Russia, and during peacetime people tend to forget how important a strong military is and stop funding it or signing up for it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 10, 2022 5:09 pm**

I think China's best bet would be to build a massive bridge from Russia to Alaska, defend it obviously, and mass troops in Canada and head down from there.