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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

The modern tactical nuke is as strong as what the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People have this idea that a tactical nuke is 'small', but what is really the case is they are full sized nukes, and strategic nukes are simply larger. From a MAD perspective, there is no reason why dropping a nuke the strength of what was dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki would somehow be notably different than a larger nuke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Best we got is a new Skyrim version. What do you mean you don't want to buy the game you already own again? We made 20 different versions, all just for you to buy!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Write the president, tell them to allow Ukraine to use US missiles deep in Russian territory. Russia sure has no qualms about doing so to Ukraine with their foreign weapons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I like the meme pictures :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I understand why they don't include the info, but would be real nice to know how many Bradleys they included here. They have done pretty well over there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

The bottom half of the prompt doesn't seem to flow from the top half, so I'm not really sure what is being asked here. But I will say, viewing life a giant game of showmanship is not a very healthy way to look at it, nor is it particularly representative of the average happy life. People always putting on a show don't live a life most want to live and it can be very off-putting to others when they find you are putting on a show rather than representing yourself honestly.

Also, constant virtue signalling can be very off-putting looks at your title.

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

Ah, a retrowave styled combat video. Haven't seen one of those recently.

For everyone's viewing pleasure; a video in the same style: N A T O W A V E

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, it certainly isn't untenable in Russia right now. The main issue is that they are running out of levers to pull, so conditions that exasperate the issue don't have solid counter-balancing options.

Two solid levers are to defend the currency (requires spending forex reserves to buy up rubles) and raising central bank interest rates. We see the reserves are drawing down in OP's post and the central bank rates are already at 18% (compared to ~5.5% in the US). The high interest rates increasingly handycap your economy as you push them up. At 18%, it is already nearing credit card levels of interest simply to finance safe loans.

Things aren't dire for Russia today, but they are getting closer and closer to a situation they may not be able to pull out of in the future.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

They can, but they are already dealing with high inflation and extremely high federal interest rates to try to stamp it down. Printing your way out of the problem will likely produce a larger problem.

Putin will probably go for it rather than admit he made a horrid choice two years ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looked like he was doin' fine until he dropped it. Probably could have disarmed it. Anyway, 🌻.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Poland needs to step up their game. Belarus is shooting down more Russian shit than they are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are looking at Russian tracers bouncing off the water where a Ukrainian unmanned kamikaze boat is.

 

First maneuver kill I have seen by a drone.

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