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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

you say "test" I hear "stock problems"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Plus the "Russia launches ICBM!!!" headline potential.

They pull 70 years old tanks out of storage all the time, they have used rare nuke-safe tanks on the battlefield, they have to beg North Korea (!) for help and more.

This just screams stock and command problems.

They are losing so they are getting desperate and thus does tries stupid things.

Armchair General Valmond.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bluff has been called. They'd be stupid to nuke an upwind country they want to conquer anyways.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Escalation was demonstrated. No it’s not escalation all the way, but this is an escalation in response to an escalation.

Perhaps the size of the response escalation, as compared to a declared or assumed promised response escalation, implies some kind of “bluff” was detected. Like maybe Russia said it’d spend 4 escalation points and instead only spent 2 escalation points, but the relative size doesn’t change the fact escalation just occurred. That’s a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

And denuclearise them.

As seen they cannot behave.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

...down to 49% now as the votes keep coming in; the russian propaganda apparatus reaches deep but not yet that deep...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I just hope that Trump's miserable health gets the better of him before he gets the chance to backstab the whole of the western world. As shitty as Vance may be, he comes across as much less in love with Putin than Trumpler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He got 76,916,317 votes (49.9%) (currently, counting hasn't finished)

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqnemxwvx/

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (15 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Russia declares US missile base in Poland a target

uh... that would get all of NATO involved, wouldn't it?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Declaring it? No.

Firing on it? Yes!

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