russian secret services are only good at imprisoning students and listening in on the phone calls criticizing the war

god forbid they actually have to do anything useful

is widely understood to be the option that results in the fewest casualties

Western economists thought that sanctioning Russia was the best option to instantly win the war. If you still think that, you’re on some heavy copium. Or you directly benefit from the money spent on directing the whatever-the-fuck-th sanctions package.

Your scenarios of doom presume that one sub could destroy the west. You assume that we would not be able to defend against their attempted launch when we’ve spent decades investing in top secret defense systems for this exact scenario.

And what if you were wrong? You’re not playing around with fucking rocks, a few warheads of the thousands is enough to wipe the life from this rock.

You assume Putin’s delivery systems will function after decades of maintenance by notorious black market scalpers. You assume Russian soldiers would be willing to erase their families for Putin’s attack order.

Some won’t function, some will. It’s not like it’s 6000 something nukes that are gonna get stuck in silos lmao. Also, soldiers are nothing if not good at making idiotic decisions when asked to do so.

A conventional first strike means very few, if any, of Russia’s delivery systems would launch. It is extremely unlikely that any of them (if any were to actually launch, given all of the roadblocks I’ve mentioned) would make it to a target.

Instead of half the world being instantly turned to glass, it’s only gonna be some random unfortunate places. How sweet. Can’t wait till a nuke drops on Ohio and the serious generals residing in bunkers shrug and tell everyone that it could’ve been worse.

Additionally, every soldier and leader in a warhead firing position knows an attempted launch of any nukes would result in nuclear annihilation of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. They also know that not launching means saving the lives of their families.

Back to the point above, soldiers are fucking dumb. You don’t join the military because you’re the brightest person around, you join the military because you’re not needed anywhere else.

If we strike first (conventionally), it is extremely likely that we will suffer no casualties at all and it will also limit the casualties suffered by Russia.

“Extremely likely” means “we don’t really care if someone in the middle of nowhere gets glassed, we just need to prove our mighty military might.”

stop sniffing glue

the last time they stopped saying sorry, we’ve had to write the geneva convention

they’re not a reliable source but there’s no reason for the ukrainian military or secret services to gun down a random concert in moscow

murdering someone like vladlen tatarsky has rather obvious strategic value but this does not

how the hell do you expect to run a company (any company of any sort, non-profit included) without a proper legal representative

well, it wouldn’t be a felony, they don’t own their apple id lmao

but it certainly wouldn’t impress neither the prosecution, nor the judge

boomers and gen x absolutely do not have any healthy suspicion lmao, especially boomers

they’re… not wrong y’know

not every idiot on the internet is funded by the ccp

Mastodon has mostly tech and open source. Bluesky is…well…nothing that I can tell.

depends on your instance and social circle, i maintain a total lack of that in mine

Also the Band was Piknik, quite the supportive band of the russian government so I assume most of their fans are also part of this group

Frankly speaking, I’ve not heard of them being either supportive of the madmen in charge, nor being against them directly. The only source for the former is Zakhar Prilepin and he’s as reliable of a source as a cheap headphone wire is reliable for bridge construction, and a concert in the Crimea they’ve held in 2016 but a long time has passed since and people tend to change.

Wouldn’t count it out, though, can’t imagine being able to play at a fairly large venue in Moscow comes without concessions. By the very least, they’re required to keep their mouths shut in case they do theoretically disagree.

Like parts of my family we lost contact with in Ukraine because of Russia?

So have I, I don’t exactly have the government in high regards either. Quite the opposite. But the people that were at the concert hall were not the ones because of whom I lost my family. I see no point in seeking vengeance through shooting random civilians.

The only violent vengeance that would help is Putin being hung on a gas station railing. But that’s not happening any time soon, he’s probably gonna end up same as Stalin if anything.

Yes innocents die in war, thats what happens. It’s cruel, it’s not fair but this can happen if you attack other countries

I’d love to see you say that if someone gunned down your compatriots. Or better yet, your family. Surely your condescending Realpolitik tone wouldn’t falter, right?

although I don’t believe that this is caused by ukranians…

Neither do I. ISIS has taken responsibility for this.

this is lemmy.

Quaks like a duck.

fair, bring the war to russia

ah yes, “bringing war to russia” now means shooting innocents, because responding to terrorism with even more terrorism works so well

gotta fuckin love reddit

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putin style economy metrics

if the economy is doing like shit by global metrics, just come up with a different system where it’s not so bad

i don’t really see a point in federating employment reviews, but there certainly needs to be a non profit providing such a service

once again, the richest people during any gold rush are shovel salesmen

Slack is practically dead

Ubuntu has diverged from Debian enough to call it its own thing, aside from it using the same packaging format (they want to get rid of anyway)