• supersolid_snake
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    The west essentially said subservience or a potentially world ending war. If you are in the gaza or various global south countries your world is in a perpetual state of ending. If you are a parent whose child is killed in an air strike or from hunger due to sanctions, the world has pretty much ended. More and more people are gonna choose the latter, a potentially world ending war especially if they have the means to fight it, i.e. Russia.

    Edit: I am not even gonna issue any disclaimers about putin or Russia or whatever. Wtf do people think nato was gonna do once it neighbored Russia? Lend it sugar and power tools? Send it a gift basket? Bake cookies for it?

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️
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      Agreed, if it must be (actual) liberty or death, there’s only one option (though the entire world other than the west is constantly seeking peace, and whatever conflict happens is entirely and infinitely the west’s fault). Some things are worse than death, and the west has proven time and time again to offer exactly that, a slow death with no dignity, no humanity, no decency given.

      I hope if the world does head down this path- hell, even if it doesn’t- that a hell of some sort exists, and if not that future humans or other sentients will create it. “Eternal torment” is more mercy than the ghouls of empire deserve.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    It looks like it’s a medium range Oreshnik missile, the kind that were stopped being developed under the INF that the US pulled out of. The key part about them is that western air defence is not able to intercept them. So the message is that these can easily hit western targets.

    https://tass.com/politics/1875935

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    Imagine spending billions developing missiles capable of hitting targets anywhere on earth, to in the end use it against your neighbour.

    Couldn’t be me.

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      It would be a flex if they launched it from Kamchatka, over the Pacific, over USA, over Europe and into Ukraine.

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      It’s not confirmed. Don’t just immediately take at face value what a British imperialist propaganda rag claims.

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        Lately, there has been an extremely worrying strain of “those Ruzzian orks are so stoopid their ancient Soviet missiles will probably fall apart if they try to launch them!”

        Shit that is completely unfounded and encourages dangerous brinksmanship like we keep seeing from Ukraine and NATO

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        Britain as welll. They’re the closer target and they’ve been supplying weapons too. Wonder what the response will be if missiles start flying at military bases.

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    That’s scary…

    Edit: It seems that it didn’t have a nuclear payload, but still kinda scary. I hope the situation doesn’t escalate more than this.