• Riccosuave@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    By who exactly? We are moving toward permanent tri-polar authoritarianism: China, Russia, and the United States. Nobody is coming to save us with “sanctions”. We already lost the war. It’s fucking over. People just haven’t come to terms with that reality yet.

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      5 months ago

      we? already lost what war?

      you think Russia today is top 3 global power? by what metric?

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        you think Russia today is top 3 global power? by what metric?

        Yes, by individual military power, which is the only metric that actually matters when you get down to nut-cutting. Barring some massive geo-political or technological shift, it is going to stay a tri-polar world.

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          Russia is pretty much a vassal state of China at this point, or at least barreling down the path towards it.

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            Honestly, they needed to import weapons and ammunition from North Korea - I think they’ve since retooled their economy but shit was desperate there for a while.

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            It seems that way, but I don’t think that is how the Russians see it. It will certainly be interesting to see what transpires after Mad Vlad finally kicks off.

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              LOL, I don’t give a fuck how the Russians see it; I care about actual reality.

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          Lmao nah. Russia is the second best military power in Ukraine. They’re a fucking joke. If they were up against a real adversary in a conventional war, they’d get rolled up like an old carpet.

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            5 months ago

            Fighting a land war with urban and CQC elements is messy and complicated. See: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq as examples. Ukraine is in no way representative of what would happen in a full on shooting war, conventional or otherwise, between larger military powers.

            It’s disturbingly stupid that you don’t understand Russia could flatten the entire country of Ukraine if it wanted to. This entire conflict is about containment and bleeding their surplus conventional weaponry so they cannot launch another offensive conflict against NATO. That is only working because completely destroying the country is counter-productive to Russian interests.