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Give em full air support. If it causes world war 3, it causes world war 3. Fuck it. Avoiding that isn't worth letting Russia just consume its neighbors on a whim - that shit certainly won't stop with Ukraine.
if it causes ww3, it will be a lot less bloody war than what will be if russia is allowed to recover and take over next country
There isnt enough North Koreans for that.
Maybe if WW3 breaks out, Biden won't hand over power to the literal fascists that are already making decisions to cause our demise.
wow yeah I hope we have global nuclear apocalypse so we can avoid the consequences of elections! totally worth.
These people are unhinged. This is just Reddit 2.0.
As this point? Yeah.
I'm glad the traditional American desire to fuck up the world because you feel upset is alive and well. that was really fun in the 2000s.
Wtf? That's such a casual suggestion to dismantle democracy. Yeah let's do that so we never get a progressive in office /s
If we're going to have an autocracy, it may as well be the one that is still somewhat benevolent to the common man.
Yeah I'd rather not. I agree if that that were the only two options it would be preferable but I totally disagree that those are the only two options and I think it's extremely dangerous rhetoric to say anyone should be an autocrat. Trump is about to be president and is the biggest threat to American democracy we've seen in anyone's living memory. But he's also about to become deeply unpopular again like every president does after election and particular bad as people start to remember what he's like. That is a far cry from a guarantee that it's over. Irreparable damage will be done but it's just silly to race to the bottom
It wouldn't be the first time a country did that. It's never ended particularly well though.
That doesn't sound very good either. I still want a chance to vote in another election. Trump might be able to dismantle it before then but if Biden held on to power it would be immediately dismantled.
Russia is also already instigating it with having North Korean troops in the combat zone. It'll just be a tit-for-tat response.
Up to 100k North Koreans. I don't care how inept they are, 100k dudes with guns will utterly wreck Ukraine.
Incompetent soldiers still consume a great deal of resources, and may become victims of even cheaper drones.
But "cheaper" still requires some money.
I heard rumors of South Korea sending troops to counter. I don't want world war but that seems fair to me.
it would be more fair that every online bellicist (no matter what camp) enlisted voluntarily and got the chance to validate their theories in practice.
If you are so willing to die you can join the front and fight russia in ukraine. Don't drag other people and the rest of the world in.
If you are so willing to die you can join the front and fight russia in ukraine. Don't drag other people and the rest of the world in.
Bold stance. Better to bring about world war 3 than let Russia consume its neighbors? I’ll have to sit with that one for a bit.
I grew up with the USSR so maybe I’m not quite ready to throw all earthly civilization into the fire to prevent 20% of that empire from being restored.
What in earth makes you think they will stop there?
The way they’re struggling in Ukraine. 3 years for what they thought would be 3 days, and they haven’t accomplished their goal.
Plus, several of the former USSR states are formal NATO members: the Baltics. With Russia struggling to hold the worst 1/3 of Ukraine, what on Earth makes you think they could sustain a war with NATO, proper?
what in sky makes you believe they'd be able to continue elsewhere?
You willing to go there to die?
Same page as catloaf - I already did my time and got my honorable discharge. If WW3 breaks out, pretty sure I'll be getting recalled. So, yes.
Then again, the alternative is wait for shit to destabilize until we get there anyway - again this shit won't end with Ukraine.
Call Russia's bluff. If we're wrong, it's not like we aren't fucked anyway. Might as well go down fighting evil, vs going down with evil's dick in our throat.
*looks at recent presidential election*
...oh yeah. Reality. Pass the lube, my throat is sore as fuck.
Because of you don't stop Russia now, there is a big chance that in a few years it's a gangbang with the all the Brics nations who learned to handle the nuclear whip like a pro dom.
you mistakingly switched from your specific miserable situation in singular to a general assumption in the plural form.
They'd rather have us back as training personnel. Most of us are broken in some way that makes deployment problematic unless we're actually desperate. Then they can dump most of TRADOC into leadership spots for new units.
You don't have to wait, instead of wasting time commenting here you are free to join the front in ukraine
I've already got my DD-214 but sure I'll go back in to fight invasion of allies
Good for you. (Not sarcasm). Now the rest of the allies need convincing.