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‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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In two years, the EU will wish it had attacked Russia now.
Russia is prepping for an EU push that will likely happen in the next two years. To prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, the EU should attack now, before Russia has the assets they need and while they are distracted in Ukraine and at home.
No. Absolutely not.
Letting your enemy prepare for its attack against you is not wise.
Attacking Russia is just dumb though.
Are you sure? Somebody calling for the genocidal eradication of anyone politically opposed to them can't be wrong.
So how many lifes is this moral stance of your worth? What about people close you, how many of them will you sacrifice to stop Putin?
None. Putin is bluffing. His nukes are 50 years old and have been maintained by black market scalpers for the entirety of their existence. Not a single one is capable of making it to a target and detonating.
Putin is a conservative. He only knows how to lie and manipulate others. He is lying about his nuclear capability just as he lied about his military capability.
Nuclear holocaust 🥰🥰🥰❤️
With what? Putin's 50 year old nukes maintained by black market scalpers?! Putin only knows how to bluff. Letting him get away with it is how we end up with conservatives dominating the normal people globally. We have to fight back, not kiss his ass. Letting the enemy continue to grow stronger is unwise.
I like how you are certain enough about the state of Russia's nuclear armament to bet the lives of everyone on the continent on it. People said the same things about all of the tanks Russia had in storage, but they're bringing them online and putting them in action in the Ukrainian theater just fine.
Even if 90% of the nuclear arsenal is inoperative, more than enough remains to reduce the world to cinders. Even if we assume high levels of corruption throughout the Russian army, a 90% failure rate would be outrageously high. Sure, Russia is never as strong as they claim to be. Their capacity is almost certainly exaggerated. But the idea that not a single of Russia's nuclear weapons would successfully detonate on target is hopium to the highest degree.
Attack Russia, best idea people keep have throughout history.
It worked for out for Ogedai Khan.
Not sure we are able to use his methods.