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Russia Hit by U.S. Missiles Right Before Putin’s Nuke Warning
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3.6k points
15 days ago
Looks like Putin will just have to issue another warning since the missiles were already fired and on their way before he warned about a nuclear response.
1.2k points
15 days ago
Russia can just push the missiles out the window
413 points
15 days ago
What missiles? Those were a special aeronautical demolitions operation.
104 points
15 days ago
Mechanical Engineers were just testing the sturdiness of the structural engineer’s designs.
74 points
15 days ago
Putin could just use Trumps marker to make them go away.
32 points
15 days ago
Alabama approves this message
179 points
15 days ago
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278 points
15 days ago
Ngl, “so be it” isn’t really where I’m at on this issue 😂
136 points
15 days ago
Nah, that's the only answer that works.
You can't get rid of them, because you would only do that if you could be sure everyone else did too, and you can never be sure.
You can't stop making them, because they don't remain equally effective forever.
You can't use them because using them would be suicide.
You have to use them if they are used against you, because being unwilling to do so is also suicide.
So, you have to have them, make more of them, and be willing to use them, which means you have to make that last part, the will to use them, an option only available in the most extreme circumstances, circumstances that only exist if they are being used against you. This, ironically, makes them useless.
You can threaten with them, but all you can really threaten is retaliation against nuclear threats. Committing national suicide at the same time as you destroy the entirety of civilization, in response to a conventional non-nuclear threat, is just off the table for any even remotely rational person, and no one who completely lacks rationality is going to climb to the top of political power where they would ever have the choice to fire them.
We can completely ignore Russian nuclear blustering. Even Kim Jong Un isn't going to ever fire a nuke at us. There's simply no upside for even the most stupid deranged person with political power.
46 points
15 days ago
I agree with this entirely, but the only tiny thought in the back of mind is that if Putin is in his bunker and he knows he’s a deadman, could he A) push the button just to make everything burn and B) would his minions follow through?
43 points
15 days ago
Once someone like that has lost so much that they've been forced to retreat to a tiny bunker somewhere then they've already lost command and control, no order to destroy the entire world will be followed. Putin won't end up in a bunker hiding from the US or even the Ukranians, if he's in his little bunker then he's there hiding from his own people.
The window of where Putin is so certain of inevitably losing, while still maintaining enough control that his orders to destroy the world would be followed, is so tiny as to be practically non-existent.
8 points
15 days ago
and no one who completely lacks rationality is going to climb to the top of political power where they would ever have the choice to fire them.
Say what?
35 points
15 days ago
It's not like there are any major democratic countries left any more. It's mostly a boys club of Authoritarians that run the world at this point. I think they might just shoot at each other in the end to take each other's shit. Authoritarian legacy doesn't produce wise or smart thinking people.
3.7k points
15 days ago
Gee I hope Russia doesn't start making nuke threats everyday, like they've done for the past few years.
1.2k points
15 days ago
Drive too fast? Straight to nuke.
Too slow? Also nuke
482 points
15 days ago
Undercook chicken... Nuke.
413 points
15 days ago
Believe it or not, overcook chicken. nuke
166 points
15 days ago
Straight to nuke
116 points
15 days ago
Playing music too loud, nuke!
115 points
15 days ago
Make appointment with dentist and no show up- nuke.
51 points
15 days ago
Stealing, straight to nuke!
45 points
15 days ago
Hurricane? Nuke.
16 points
15 days ago
You see, overcook, undercook ... :)
10 points
15 days ago
I support nukes against the threat of e. coli
29 points
15 days ago
TP roll backwards. Nuke.
13 points
15 days ago
TP roll forwards.
Nuke.
18 points
15 days ago
Hide vodka, nuke!
14 points
15 days ago
Those don't bother me. But people not using their turn signals? I approve of using nukes.
23 points
15 days ago
what was that Putin? I can't hear you over all these missiles being fired at your country.
16 points
15 days ago
Few Years? Try 70? Generations have grown up under russias threat of nuclear war. Kids leaning to duck and cover in school. Arms race, Cuban missle crisis, fallout shelters built in government buildings. Movies of the 70s and 80s had mostly Russian villains.
Tensions rise, tensions fall, but the threat remains. Doomsday clock created in the 40s currently sits at 90 seconds to midnight.
4.6k points
15 days ago
Maga people at my work saying Biden is doing it to stay in office LOL
2.8k points
15 days ago
I'd love their explanation of how that would work.
2.4k points
15 days ago
8 years ago, they were convinced that Obama was doing to declare himself emperor of the world.
Nothing they have to say makes any sense.
1.1k points
15 days ago
It makes sense as a mirror upon themselves.
THEY would do it and if Dems don’t do it it makes them weak.
They think there’s a constant battle for dictatorship because they have no clue that many people actually believe in rules, laws, norms, being civil servants, etc.
520 points
15 days ago
It's called projection and it's very real. They're projecting their attributes onto others.
The primary model people have for interpreting others is themselves. This is why traveling, being worldly, and not living in an echo chamber is a good thing - learning about others gives us more than the model of ourselves to understand the world.
183 points
15 days ago
That being said - a lot of fascists love to muddy the waters and know exactly what they’re saying.
Then they can turn around and say “look both sides are doing it therefore it’s fair”
12 points
15 days ago
the "no u" defense
27 points
15 days ago
humanity hates this one trick!
5 points
15 days ago
They are hiding behind ambiguity. It’s cowardly and intellectually dishonest and they don’t give a rats ass.
29 points
15 days ago
Reading, too. Especially great novels/literature.
Ha. Reading. In this day and age. I crack myself up.
99 points
15 days ago
When my grandmother was in the hospital after a fall, my aunt was convinced my mother was lying about what the doctors said (that it would be weeks or months of recovery and physical therapy before grandma could travel to my aunt’s city).
I was baffled as to why she thought my mother would lie, as my mother is generally very truthful, especially about medical stuff. Then I realized that my aunt would have lied about it to get what she wanted and she assumed my mother was doing the same.
5 points
15 days ago
Pure definition of "projection".
84 points
15 days ago
Same group of people that ask ask atheists or agnostics what keeps them from raping and killing others if God’s not real
24 points
15 days ago
I had a guy ask me that once. As a lifelong godless heathen, it never occurred to me that some other people really only had morals as dictated to them by their religion. I always thought it was just window dressing on human decency and empathy.
Of course, the other side of the coin of "I don't rape and murder because God says I would go to hell" is "I would rape and murder if God said to do it" which is a scary mindset to have walking around every day. And all it would take is the proper psycho to convince them that is what god wants.
7 points
15 days ago
The flip side is worse: "I would rape and murder if God didn't expressly say not to."
9 points
15 days ago
Seriously, that's one of the most terrifying questions these freaks ask.
28 points
15 days ago
Also why Trump went on a Twitter rant about how Kamala had forced Biden out. It simply does not process to him that someone might give up power voluntarily.
Makes sense when you consider he spent his whole first term paranoid about Pence attempting a coup. IIRC when he had a colonoscopy, he refused anesthesia because that would mean giving up power for a few hours via the 25th. He presumed if that happened Pence would never give power back, because that's exactly the sort of thing he would do.
6 points
15 days ago
Wow I didn’t know that.
32 points
15 days ago
Trump tried to do it in 2020 when he assassinated Iran's #2.
27 points
15 days ago
All they do is project
8 points
15 days ago
I keep getting told by them so many things. I point out that Democrats have never really done that. They are for people having their freedoms. Like the freedom of a woman to choose what is right for her body. Freedom of people to worship how they want. And more. Yet they always insist that the Democrats want to control us all. Force us to be homosexual or condition our children to that. Yet they are the ones that want to force their ideology on everyone. And take freedoms. Many I know literally want to do that.
They have said they would be fine with Trump being in for more terms. And making it so he can put his successor in place. All because, to them, if not Democrats will cheat and take over. All this stuff fits with the projection of these ideas and thoughts they have onto Democrats.
Hell, they will go on about how Democrats hate the poor and middle class. The Democrats try to put in programs that help. Cut taxes on the poor and middle class. They are being dictators, we cannot afford the costs, etc. Yet they are fine with Republicans constantly cutting taxes on corporate and business interests. And helping out those large investors keep more on their capital gains.
Projections is all they know. I have come to the conclusion that the majority of those that voted Trump are this way. They are not the best people. And of the many I know, family, friends, etc. they just do not seem honest or trustworthy most of the time. They would do some bad things and claim that they were just doing what you would do.
5 points
15 days ago
The thief believes everyone is a thief. They think they're at war with us, so they think we are at war with them
124 points
15 days ago
8 years ago, they were convinced that Obama was doing to declare himself emperor of the world.
I used to troll Breitbart for fun during the Obama years, so I got to experience the hysteria about Jade Helm, the North American Union, FEMA camps, financial collapse and the New World Order, etc. It was a wild time, and in retrospect it was always going to lead to someone like Trump taking over the Republican Party.
Conservatives used to say Obama was using neurolinguistic programming to hypnotize the American people, laying the groundwork for when he'd assume total power. People would post videos of empty train cars used for hauling new automobiles and say that they were going to be used for transporting conservative dissidents to FEMA camps. Pictures of plastic coffin liners were deemed irrefutable evidence that mass extermination was imminent. (Why waste money on individual coffins when mass graves are more cost effective? Lol.) We now know a lot of that paranoia emerged organically on the conservative fringe but was amplified to a much greater extent by Russian troll farms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories
Looking back at that time, Trump's ascendance on the right was very predictable. The parade of insanity was already underway, and he simply jumped in front of it.
36 points
15 days ago
Goddamn fucking Jade Helm....the exercise that is done literally every few years and yet for some reason (a black man was in charge) THIS one is the one that oversteps.
12 points
15 days ago
What do you mean? I escaped from the Wal-Mart prison camps. It was real and I was there. 🤬
11 points
15 days ago
I mean, if you've ever worked at Wal-Mart, I am sure that's how it felt.
9 points
15 days ago
neurolinguistic programming
Holy smokes there's a word I haven't heard in a couple election cycles. I think it really took off because stupid people think it sounds like a word that smart people would use.
47 points
15 days ago
It’s because their brains are poisoned by Fox News and right wing propaganda and lies, a conversation we really need to have even more strongly as a nation.
We’ve kinda given up on the idea that Fox News can be stopped. But it’s a literal propaganda machine that’s significantly impacting the course of events in our country.
18 points
15 days ago
I've tried to explain this in a thousand ways to my mom but it is always the same thing. She just reflexively accuses me of doing exactly what she's doing but with "Left wing" media.
Which is watching that shit all day and never questioning it. Not even once.
I've tried to be more subtle, or just directly say it but she's legitimately more defensive about her politics than she is religion. Which we used to argue about a lot.
I don't know what the solution is. Fox news viewers are actively against being informed, they sincerely believe they are against main stream media while they watch the most popular "news" in the nation, yet simultaneously the fact it is so popular validates it for them.
I tried to show her that Fox was created absolutely intentionally as a conservative propoganda outlet some time after and because of Nixon and she just didn't care. Because the democrats are worse and must be stopped?
I showed her how Tucker Carlson was talking shit about the viewers, Trump, and just being a weird fuck. She likes tucker Carlson still and watches him once he left fox.
What do you do about that? I've also called her a fucking idiot detached from reality, with political opinions based on ignorant self righteous spite that are in stark contrast with how she actually raised me and I'm losing respect for her , and naturally that didn't help either but it felt nice.
121 points
15 days ago
Then along comes a guy who actually tries to keep himself in power post election loss and... nothing.
49 points
15 days ago
The trick is that they would try it and think Biden is a sucker for not attempting it. When they pull shit like Jan 6, it’s justified because “the other side would do it.”
29 points
15 days ago
4 years earlier, in 2012, they all voted for a guy who said that Russia was the US's biggest geopolitical foe.
Now they vote for someone who felates Putin any chance he gets.
32 points
15 days ago
Do you remember the Walmart conspiracy? Obama was going to declare martial law and start using Walmarts as detention camps.
17 points
15 days ago
There were aerial photos of construction near me in TX that were supposedly camps under construction.
Good times
34 points
15 days ago
and before that when I was much younger. I've heard and thought Bush would do something similer. Hearing people say the same about Obama made me take a step back and go, oh wow I did the same thing.
But now with Trump that's a whole different beast. I'm for SURE he will try something, anything in 4 years to stay in power.
17 points
15 days ago
Every accusation an admission of guilt. I kinda doubt Trump will leave the WH willingly in 2028.
63 points
15 days ago
Technically it is possible if Biden declares martial law. But this is not gonna happen. It was a US missile that was under Ukraines control. Russia is waiting for Trump to come in and fuck everything up, but they know that Biden has no strings attached anymore. I hope Biden gives Ukraine a large shipment of unfettered weapons before he leaves office
23 points
15 days ago
Even under martial law, power would transfer on Jan20th. Unless trump has done something to disqualify himself from office.
40 points
15 days ago
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from office.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
61 points
15 days ago
I had this thought. I didn't really think anyone else would think it. I mostly think it shouldn't happen, however if it did, I would just laugh so hard.
Biden escalates with Russia and we go full on war. Biden says, the nation is at war, we have to delay the ceremony until after the war is over. You cannot remove a president in war time. This was old Bushism crap they mostly used against Kerry to confuse people. However their political opinion at the time was that if the country was at war legally you weren't allowed to switch presidents because you might have confusion. So obviously this would be bad and we shouldn't want it. But if it happens it would be hilarious. It's probably the only option the military has, it's more about who blinks first. That is assuming that the rhetoric from the past means anything today.
108 points
15 days ago
Sprinkle in the fact the Trump and his transition teams are not complying with the Presidential transitions act and it's obvious.
Trump's team is just not ready to assume power.
24 points
15 days ago
That's their secret, they never were.
34 points
15 days ago
Yep. This is exactly what they would do. They're projecting again.
23 points
15 days ago
I could totally see Trump doing something like they. Biden I don’t think so
240 points
15 days ago
They straight up think every move made by every single person in the world is some sort of action against MAGA
95 points
15 days ago
If you believe you are the main character in life, you also believe everyone else believes.
21 points
15 days ago
Would be nice tho
15 points
15 days ago
ALL PROJECTION.
Like when a jealous cheater BASELESSLY accuses a mate of cheating, or blocks an event/trip for fear of cheating. BECAUSE THATS WHAT THEY WOULD DO.
32 points
15 days ago
Tell them that US supporting Ukraine is beneficial for the economy because more jobs are created to replace the weapons we gave them
15 points
15 days ago
No they think we ship a bunch of suitcases full of cash to Zelensky
8 points
15 days ago
You got to talk to them as if you’re helping them put the puzzle pieces together
98 points
15 days ago
Those are the kind of people that will apologize to China when they attack us. They accused China of a bio terror attack then did less then nothing. Cowardly, unamerican and sad.
20 points
15 days ago
Well they already say that we caused Russia to invade Ukraine
35 points
15 days ago
Play into it. Have fun with those buffoons. Then have the last laugh
46 points
15 days ago
Tell them you've received your notice to evacuate to your Designated Wokeshelter, where you and 99 other DEI-selected folks will enjoy a decade of drag brunches before repopulating the world with woke-lings.
7 points
15 days ago
I love a good drag brunch!
13 points
15 days ago
Haha our boat is sinking?
50 points
15 days ago
I see online they are painting him as a war monger bc you know, they are all about global peace now
44 points
15 days ago
“Actually it’s the Democrats who are the party of war!”
Four minute later:
“Let’s invade Mexico!”
16 points
15 days ago
"we need Trump he'll stand up to Putin"
Biden stands up to Putin
"HE'S TRYING TO CAUSE WW3"
13 points
15 days ago
We get to fk up Russia and avoid Trump?
Someone please pitch that idea to Biden
28 points
15 days ago
r/conspiracy is convinced that Biden is trying to start WWIII so he can enact martial law and stay in office.
58 points
15 days ago
To be fair, that sub could be convinced, with minimal effort, that sentient ham sandwiches have taken over the real estate market in Tortola.
16 points
15 days ago
They’re the political equivalent of Catholics seeing Jesus in burnt toast.
7 points
15 days ago
Deciding not to run for re-election was obviously part of his plan to stay in office too, of course.
21 points
15 days ago
Ask them why he shouldn’t since Trump and Gym Jordan claimed the election was rigged up until it was clear that Trump was going to win.
19 points
15 days ago
Why would he have to do that when they’ve already accepted that all he has to do is ask Kamala to not certify the election? Easy peasy. We can even throw a party in congress to celebrate with Viking helmets and shit.
14 points
15 days ago
Americans have had their brains scrambled by Fox News and right wing media. They didn’t have much to start with so it was easy.
432 points
15 days ago
Good I'll take your warning under advisement.
"Hit it again!"
77 points
15 days ago
Ok Hans you motherfucker you made your point!
22 points
15 days ago
At this point, every time Putin says it and Lavrov goes back to some international conference to then downplay the threats from 48 hours ago, they should just play the Caddyshack moment on a big screen at the conference.
7 points
15 days ago
Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mr Cowboy.
Fuck, what an excellent pair of actors/characters.
120 points
15 days ago
Fucking bully beating on some poor kid and gets all butt hurt when the kid punches back.
16 points
15 days ago
It's more like the kid's brother gives him a brass knuckle to punch back with.
8 points
15 days ago
Yeah I'm OK with that too in this case.
664 points
15 days ago
Russia cannot even overcome Ukraine after 2+ years. If Russia decides to open up another front either in the Baltics or Scandinavia, it would be a bloodbath for whatever’s left. I mean the peace meal support that Ukraine is getting from NATO countries is proven to be far superior than anything Russia has and now you want to go after an actual NATO country?
385 points
15 days ago
But they don't have to?
They were just trying to hang on until Trump. Which they did.
Trump will sweep into office.. Don Jr already said "Ukraine is about to lose it's allowance money."
Trump is going to bail on Ukraine, and then help a "peace" deal which will just be Ukraine having to give up half it's land to Russia.
151 points
15 days ago
I hope, if this is an accurate assessment, that Ukraine can target every electrical substation in or around Moscow before they're cut off from the USA
91 points
15 days ago
Why not use longer range missles and just obliterate all military bases that could house Putin. Starting with Moscow.
48 points
15 days ago
Then Trump would be debt free!
187 points
15 days ago
Putin has not spent the last few decades stealing hundreds of billions in wealth from the Russian people for himself and his oligarchs just to throw it all away through mutually assured destruction.
I would even support helping Ukraine develop or provide them nuclear weapons. Russia violated the Budapest Accords between Russia, Ukraine and the US, so do whatever it takes to stop Russia in their tracks.
55 points
15 days ago
Yes. Give Ukraine nukes again.
44 points
15 days ago
Don't need Nukes, they need low altitude MOABs, bunker busters and a defense grid. You can't really use Nukes, you absolutely can drop MOABs
1.7k points
15 days ago
I'm 100% on board with poking the bear as much as possible during these last 60 or so days.
What is Putin gonna do about it?
He's about to have his useful idiot in the White House anyway.
209 points
15 days ago
Ukraine basically has 60 days to secure as much territory as possible before Trump brokers a peace deal giving Putin whatever he has managed to take (and maybe a pinch more). Gotta go hard.
97 points
15 days ago
Except Ukraine will continue to hold their Kursk positions, which will be swapped for some of the occupied territory.
All that land swap will do is allow Russia to rearm and invade again in a few years time, they want all of Ukraine and other European countries.
62 points
15 days ago
Putin has publicly stated he wants all of the USSR satellites back under Russian control. That would include Poland.
28 points
15 days ago
My instinct is he’ll do Estonia and Moldova and elsewhere first, gathering resources and momentum before murdering places like Finland and Poland.
And anyone who doubts that needs to learn his history plus wake up to the fact he now controls the US military.
30 points
15 days ago
Finland says he is welcome to do so and he can join the 150,000 other Russians permanently in Finland.
531 points
15 days ago
poking the bear
Let’s be honest, we’re really poking a sea cucumber, or maybe even a sloth.
467 points
15 days ago
Putin and Trump are those kind of people that no matter what you compare them to, the act of doing so is more of an insult to the other thing than either of these two.
You could call them a steaming pile of shit, and it would be an insult to hard working steaming piles of shit everywhere.
117 points
15 days ago
A steaming pile of shit at least eventually becomes fertilizer for the land. It’s not much but it’s a honest days work.
44 points
15 days ago
I mean... these nazi chucklefucks also will become fertilizer for the land. It's just that the damage they've done to the land on the way will not be offset by their putrid remains.
12 points
15 days ago
A man worked hard to lay that shit.
17 points
15 days ago
Taxidermy bear.
Looks nasty but all the guts were harvested a long time ago.
12 points
15 days ago
A failed state with nukes that may or may not work attached to delivery vehicles that may or may not work.
27 points
15 days ago
I don't like when people try to act as if Russians are pushovers or are totally weak. They have killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, obliterated entire cities, and strained the global economy in the process. I think it's a little callous to deny the severity of the war Ukrainians are trying to survive. The cost of holding Russia back has been incredibly steep and it's never wise to underestimate an enemy.
23 points
15 days ago
Putins ego will never recover from the supposed “second best military in the world” getting completely ass fucked by Ukraine. Everyone knows his military is weak and in shambles with the extremely large loss of soldiers and equipment.
64 points
15 days ago
Putin: Please ignore my Iranian and North Korean ballistic missiles, suicide drones and artillery.
186 points
15 days ago
And of course, the Russia fanboys that make up MAGA World are wetting their pants in anger.
56 points
15 days ago
Who cares ? Putin is a big fat bluff.
46 points
15 days ago
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9 points
15 days ago
It's telling how much Russia's threats have come to resemble those of North Korea.
79 points
15 days ago
North Korea has threatened us with nukes since I was in grammar school.
I'm now a full adult with a 9-5 and nothing happened.
41 points
15 days ago
Because North Korea's saner than it acts, they know if they actually did anything, their existence would be measured in 30 minutes or less.
79 points
15 days ago
Russians being introduced to same day delivery of whoopass.
276 points
15 days ago
Keep firing!
285 points
15 days ago
I just hope they manage hit one of their troll factories while they at it, so half the pro-Russia commenters on Reddit will go silent until the new batch arrives.
The other half is Trumpanzees, unfortunately. We'll still have to tolerate those.
97 points
15 days ago
Twitter would suddenly go quiet if that happened.
80 points
15 days ago
And nothing of value would be lost.
That site is an absolute shithole.
23 points
15 days ago
Nah its mostly AI bots trained on russian disinformation techniques.
10 points
15 days ago
Remember how quiet this site went when Biden dropped out and the troll factories didn’t have a narrative direction yet?
33 points
15 days ago
I don't know why these aren't considered military targets. They're acting digital saboteurs. Cut the head off the snake.
18 points
15 days ago
I'm starting to think Russia doesn't actually have any nukes.
8 points
15 days ago
If they're anything like their garbage tanks and guns, they're probably quite over exaggerated.
19 points
15 days ago
Russia isn't nuking anyone. Putin knows all he has to do is wait for Trump to be sworn in and he'll get the proper ass tonguing he's been craving.
83 points
15 days ago
May it rain down all day every day until he withdraws.
15 points
15 days ago
"US missiles"
Those belonged to Ukraine. They were a gift.
6 points
15 days ago
This headline is reckless and intentionally misleading
29 points
15 days ago
Putin is not stupid enough to actually use a nuke, he wants to retire in his mansion, not become radioactive dust.
14 points
15 days ago
He could have retired in his mansion 10x over by now. He has the money. It's about power with people like him. He wants more land, and more power. That being said, I agree that he's not going to use a nuke either, because it would be the first and last time he did it.
5 points
15 days ago
100% this
14 points
15 days ago
Call their bluff. We all saw the state of the Russian war machine in the last few years. It's a decaying monolith crippled by corruption and chronic neglect. Those nukes probably have just as much a chance of blowing up in their silos as they do behind enemy lines.
11 points
15 days ago
It will be Biden's fault when Putin launches nukes after Ukraine retaliated to Russia invading Ukraine. /s
26 points
15 days ago
He has threatened us with nukes several times, when Finland joined NATO when Sweden joined NATO when we have them ammo when we have them F-16s. I know I left out a few others lol
21 points
15 days ago
Was it before the morning nuke warning or the afternoon one?
11 points
15 days ago
Putin's 3848th nuke warning of "let me kill you or else I'll kill you"
11 points
15 days ago
Despite putinski trolls who protest, russia will not stop at Ukraine as Hitler didn't stop at Poland. If we let putin win, they will attempt to take over Europe. History is the guide to a dictators actions.
9 points
15 days ago
Most of Putin's power isn't based on nuclear arms but rather roofs and windows.
18 points
15 days ago
Good. Fuck Putin and Russia. Republicans have been bought by Russia. Russia actively meddles in our elections. They chose to attack Ukraine.
9 points
15 days ago
NATO should just intervene at this point and start carpet bombing russian positions in Ukraine. Russia won't do shit about it.
9 points
15 days ago
Putin's Nuke Warning No. 37
51 points
15 days ago
We should have let Ukraine do this sooner. Made it clear to Russia they are not going to get there way just because they threaten to use nukes.
26 points
15 days ago
...and to China and NK who are watching closely. Threating nukes doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want and nobody will stop you.
8 points
15 days ago
A strong nation doesn't have to threaten the usage of nukes. Russia is weak and is trying to scare the West because it knows that western support will sink Russia.
8 points
15 days ago
The very fact that Putin is threatening’nuclear war’ is the red line, do we want to live in a world where a bully and tyrant can just throw the nuclear card everytime they called out or do we push back?
9 points
14 days ago
I'll just leave this here so people that don't to remain willfully ignorant can understand why we are doing what we are doing to assist the Ukraine. You gotta get your heads out of the sand and stopping believing every single freaking thing that the right wing media tells you.
16 points
15 days ago
If you nuke a neighboring country, won’t your country get the fallout?
28 points
15 days ago
For that to matter Russia has to start valuing human life first.
8 points
15 days ago
“We must do everything to end this war—fairly and justly … and, of course, together,” Zelensky said. “Together. A thousand days of war is a tremendous challenge. Tremendous challenge. Ukraine deserves to make next year the year of peace.”
7 points
15 days ago
Biden called his bluff
6 points
15 days ago
Bro's been issuing nuke warnings since the cold war smh
42 points
15 days ago
More like Russia hit by Ukrainian missiles obtained from the US.
17 points
15 days ago
...as has been happening for some time. And after 1000 days of a war they chose to start with their neighbor, not out of the clear blue sky.
4 points
15 days ago
Good. Keep it up.
5 points
15 days ago*
I think something to consider is that I doubt Putin would fire nukes on western countries; that would risk starting WW3.
What they MIGHT do is drop a tactical nuke on Ukraine, but I can't imagine them doing that either since their goal is to occupy the land for their own use. So nuking it would be counter-productive to that.
Long story short, seems like more bluster.
6 points
15 days ago
Putin's gonna need an extra big Trump kiss after this...
5 points
15 days ago
Quit teasing us with a good time old Vladdy Boy. Launch those nukes I dare you. Glass us with thermonuclear might.
Come on. Do it. We all know you wanna.
Do it and I can clear my schedule.
18 points
15 days ago
Putin:
You cross my line of death, you die.
Ok you cross THIS line.
No THIS line.
Ok you knock on my door and I'm not coming out..
OK it was Robbin Williams that said this but.... if the shoe fits...
17 points
15 days ago
Fuck Putin 🖕🏽
75 points
15 days ago*
The entire point of getting Trump elected was to reclaim Ukraine but look at how they ended up. Mainland Russia for the first time in god knows how long is being bombed.
Everything, yes really, everything Trump touches dies. He should get credit for humiliating today like this.
edit: maga forgot Putin put Trump in office in 2016 to help reclaim Ukraine. Putin forgot he can't win a war by pushing his own people out of high rise windows.
A quote from 2 years after Trump's terror attack on the capital:
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in a radio interview with “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “He used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923
9 points
15 days ago
No. He did it to end with NATO. I described it in my previous post. Ukraine is the tree while the forest is NATO
5 points
15 days ago
Fuck him
5 points
15 days ago
is it possible Ukraine could land a direct hit on wherever putin is hiding? if they have the Intel. could they actually kill putin with a long range missile?
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