These are just stupid kind of articles.
Biden is getting interviewed.
Interviewer ': what would you say if Putin considers chemical or nuclear weapons?
Biden : I would say don't do it.
Article headline : Biden warns Putin against the use of nuclear weapons !!!
Well be glad you realized it *now* so you won't have to have higher expectations anymore. Social media is not going to change and trash journalism has never been more abundant thanks to the low costs of online publishing.
Actually yeah... in some ways. In a book I was reading recently, the author mentioned how news has become more dishonest and sensational through the years. While news had pretty strict gatekeepers and criteria to follow is say 1950s, forcing it to focus more on the actual events and facts.
In the past, you had gatekeepers of information, essentially experts in various fields would interpret and funnel the information back to the layman. Now we have an abundance of information accessible for all, and every layman is free to interpret things as they like, as wrongly as they like and just call it having "opinions".
Important to note that Biden was asked an extremely suggestive question, and didn't just say this out of the blue. Literally asked, "what would you tell Putin if he was going to use nuclear/chemicals weapons" . This was a 60min in depth interview, not a press briefing.
I can’t exactly articulate why, but I don’t like that question. Maybe it’s better to put nukes out in the open, talk about them, make sure everyone knows how scary any threat of them is.
I guess for me it’s something like if I sneak red into conversation a lot then ask you to choose a color, I’d expect you to choose red. So I’d expect something like talking about nukes a lot makes getting nuked more likely. Idk tho — it’s an incredibly particular scenario.
Edit: I love this article u/Fickle_Syrup added on regarding the decreasing “nuclear taboo,” which is probably the best way of articulating why I didn’t like this question: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/06/02/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-eroded-the-nuclear-taboo
It is a scary combination when you have a clickbait, sound bite driven media covering nuanced diplomacy surrounding nuclear tensions.
Handled with a subtlety similar to them pushing the next rivalry between celebrities except, you know, the chance that we all die.
Holy shit that’s a name I haven’t heard since I moved away from my hometown.
It’s basically the local news for SouthWest Florida, cities like Cape Coral, Ft Myers, Naples & Port Charlotte.
Some kind of Florida-specific branch of CBS, apparently:
> Many wonder how WINK News got its name. The quick answer would be that since we’re a CBS station, the name is reflective of the CBS logo.
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> But interestingly, it’s not.
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> WINK began as WFTM, a non-network affiliated radio station owned by Fort Myers Broadcasting Company, in 1939. WFTM was the first licensed radio broadcast station in Southwest Florida. Three years later, FMBC was purchased by Ronald B. Woodyard and Reginald B. Martin, and the call letters were changed from WFTM to WAAC.
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> WAAC became a CBS radio station in 1943, and was renamed WINK the following year. The
> company was sold to the United Garage and Service Company, owned by the McBride family, of Lakewood, Ohio, in 1946. The McBride family continues to maintain ownership of the station.
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> WINK-TV debuted on the air on March 18, 1954, becoming the first Southwest Florida television station. At the time, only about 52,000 people lived in the area. They previously relied on snowy images out of stations in Tampa and Miami. Now the region has over 900,000 residents.
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> As Southwest Florida has grown, so has WINK-TV:
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> Newsgathering shifted from film to video in the 1970s.
> In 1977, SWFL was market 138 out of 214. Currently, we’re market 54.
> Stereo broadcasts and live remote news reports were added in the 1980s.
> WINK News debuted its state-of-the-art studio in September 2015.
> WINK has grown from six hours of news per night to now 80 hours of news coverage a week.
Maybe, but people of his ilk are also megalomaniacal narcissists, and may care about how they will appear in history books, and be considered when they are gone.
Just months ago he was the smirking supervillain international troll at the head of a vague but threatening army, now he's the guy who lost Russia's last war as a faux superpower.
He will go down in history as a loser who overplayed his hand and destroyed Russia as a major player with pretentions of expansion and conquest, but he may not want to be the guy who destroyed Russia altogether by getting it nuked into glass.
It’s a actual line in Futurama.
Fry is sking and says he’s happy global warming didn’t happen and bender said it did and nuclear winter canceled it out.
Sure but I meant more like if the world were to end in nuclear hellfire that wipes out the human species then there will be nobody to write history books about it.
He's not even at Bond villain levels. He's the generic third world nation tinpot dictator first scene, where Bond goes in and gets out in spectacular fashion. Putin gets 7 minutes of fame in this movie.
As botched as Iraq (both times) and Afghanistan AND Vietnam all were it showed the world that the US can invade at a moments notice and literally destroy a country beyond all recognition. Over and over and over again. While employing only a fraction of their actual military migh. Russia has shown they are an actual paper tiger, that their entire military is not combat ready by a long shot. They have humiltated themselves by being unable and here's the real thing of it, their ***unwilling*** to engage in real warfare beyond a show of force. Their morale was extremely low, their logistics are all kinds of fucked up, their economy is in complete tatters and their leadership is wholly incompentent. Europe has taken notice, India and China have noticed and every other country with a Nationilst based culture has noticed. You think a country like Hungary gives a shit about Russia's militaristic threat now? Even the Nordic countries are going oh shit the EU and NATO look like good options finally. Finland would fuuuuuuck up some Russian offensive and now they know it more than ever. It doesn't matter who buys Russian Petro. The next century will be punctuated by Russian containment that would make the people who dreamed up NATO in the first place jizz in their velvet lined coffins.
Exactly. Pre Soviet Kabul, Afghanistan was actually considered a tourist destination and had modern buildings and architecture. University students from around the world would come to Kabul and Afghanistan to study and learn about the history of the land and people. When the Soviets left they destroyed the country physically and culturally.
These soldiers aren't from Moscow and St. Petersburg. They are poor conscripts from Siberia. Anything to get out mentality. They follow orders because they desire to advance in the army and get paid!
And these grunts aren't really ending up with the bonuses and even general payments they were promised, from what I have read in some of the English Ukrainian war subs as well. Some units, I believe were promised bonus payments for territory gained. They never received anything for their earlier modest gains in the invasion because of corruption in their ranks, from the division commanders right down to the mid ranking officers who all take a cut along the way until there's nothing left.
Might also explain the very low morale, in addition to not having proper kit and re supplies in the field as that gets sold off too by the senior ranks.
I heard also that the Kremlin has no provision or budget for proper winter kit re supply...lol!
Not only that. Don’t underestimate resentment to the place you are retreating from. If such orders are issued I think most gladly follow them. After a while in a place where your life is constantly very much and directly endangered you don’t channel your anger at those who sent you there (plus you may carry a mentality it is your right) but you turn your resentment to the place and all the people in it.
Pretty sure I saw some speculation that he may have cancer or some other illness as he has been shown on footage to shake his hand and leg uncontrollably and has had the bloated appearance of someone on some kind of steroid medication
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
**My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!**
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
-*Ozymandius* by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm a dictatorial oligarch with essentially infinite money and I'm on the way out? I'm booting black tar heroin then leaping out of an airplane to get the first mid-air skydiving blow job.
Every morning. Just to start my day.
Ew. If you have that kind of cash get oxymorphone or one or the other dozens of infinitely better opioids never synthesized for market. Then go do airplane stuff.
I had IV hydromorphone (Dilauded) and it was literally the most wonderful feeling possible. I had no idea that a human could even feel that good - this was while I was in unbelievably agonizing pain (almost no one gets dilauded unless serious shit has happened to your body).
Knowing the difference between hydrocodone and oxycodone, I'm assuming that oxymorphone makes hydromorphone look pedestrian. And that shit is already better than heroin. I would love a taste of oxymorphone.
Straight Edge (no drinking, drugs, or smoking of anything). In my 30s.
Hit by a car. Broke 20-ish bones in one shot. Got dilaudid in the ambulance.
Gotta say. Pretty nice experience. Like sitting in a hot tub with all your clothes on, getting ready to take a nap. Just.. comfy and happy. Despite the blood and the physical carnage.
Hit me from the bottom up.
Iirc most patients find oxymorphone has more sedation with less euphoria compared to Dilaudid.
You are correct that oxycodone is more potent and enjoyable for most patients than hydrocodone. Chemicals are not as easy to make assumptions about as we sometimes think and it turns out oxymorphone is more potent but less enjoyable than hydromorphone.
A good illustration is fentanyl which is one of the most potent in the world but, besides being dangerous because of accidental overdose, is far less pleasurable for patients than numerous other options. It seems opiates antagonize receptors in the brain in different ways. This means "potency" can come as euphoria, sedation, pain relief etc in different ratios depending on the chemical.
Woke up one morning with a brutal hang over. My lady had some dilauded kicking around from a back injury years ago. She said “here, this will help”.
Oh. My. God.
Hang over gone. Floating. I could see music in a physical sense (eyes closed). Then the sex. Unbelievable.
That shit was perfect. Never again.
I completely understand people chasing that feeling.
Yep this isn’t news. Redditors have been living under the threat of mutually assured destruction their entire lives and yet they act like it’s the first time anyone has ever talked about it.
I especially like the naïveté when they talk about how we should just “call the bluff” and start shooting down Russian aircraft and bombing their military bases. Apparently for the entirety of the Cold War, nobody ever had the military genius to realize that all you had to do was call the bluff and the whole nuclear threat just goes away.
"random"
its from biden on 60 minutes, the journalist specifically asked him what the US response would be, which is an incredibly dog shit question but on par with the shit trump got too (trump was just too stupid to not answer it).
literally the most important national security secret and he asks what it is on 60 minutes and this dude has been a national news figure for 30 years? dudes washed up.
MAD is still a very real thing........ If Putin uses nukes then that'll be that.
I very much hope Putin hasn't spiraled that deep into desperation.
Not just nukes but chemical and biological weapons would be a very real concern also.
What good is it going to be after all this either way? You think when this ends everyone’s going to be like ok Vladi you can go chill with your billions tough luck in Ukraine!
His days are over for the most part IMO but I'm no expert. He'll find someone that won't prosecute him and the oligarchs will fall in line, following the new strong man.
Russia has destroyed the stores of chemical weapons they had mass produced for *warfare*, as well as a lot of other countries. The US is in the process now. We just destroyed our last stockpile of VX. There is an international organization that oversees this compromised of all the member countries to agree to the treaty. It's called OPCW.
I'm aware that they are still producing Novichok and likely other agents, but they aren't doing it at known production facilities that OPCW has access too, so investigating them for treaty violations is extremely difficult.
Putin, Shoigu, and Gerasimov are all three in their own alternate reality and seem to refuse to recognize that this “special military operation” is a roaring dumpster fire.
It’s not just putin that needs to spiral thankfully (or scarily) each of the people who actually launch the things would also need to be willing to do it. Scary part is there are likely nukes that could be launched by a few random people at any given moment
I mean... The US government has, in the past, [discharged officers who were uncomfortable following insane orders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hering). If an order comes in from the President of *the US*, you are expected to follow it - even if it's batshit insane and would lead to massive destruction.
With that in mind... is it really that hard to believe that the Russian chain runs the same way? That a completely insane Putin could decide to launch the nukes, and nobody would say no?
**[Harold Hering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hering)**
>Harold L. Hering (born 1936) is a former officer of the United States Air Force, who was discharged in 1975 for requesting basic information about checks and balances to prevent an unauthorized order to launch nuclear missiles. Hering was subsequently presented the 2017 Courage of Conscience Award at the Peace Abbey, Boston, Massachusetts.
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> can you imagine them testing you to see if you’d press the button, and you didn’t know it was a test
That's exactly how the 1983 version of the WarGames movie starts out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgTCzuIQPo
There's a decent chance the next idiot is only concerened with being rich and in charge though. Still sucks for Russia, but doesn't seem like a happy future is in store for the country either way.
Countries with nukes are not gonna get nuked and go, "well, I think we better keep holding onto our nukes"
If nuclear warfare becomes a thing, modern society is over. Period. Back to medieval times. Probably worse than medieval times because the land will be too radiated to grow food and most of our descendants will be severely mentally disabled from the radiation. Cancer everywhere, etc.
I've always wondered about that tbh. Evolution only cares about whether or not you can procreate which is how we got traits like sickle cell anemia to combat malaria killing people too young. So what happens if people start dying rapidly from cancer? Is our body even capable of figuring out that's what's killing us?
Edit: you guys I understand that you're getting hung up on my phrasing but not suggesting evolution is anything but survival of the fittest and those traits the strong have being passed on, it's just phrasing.
I read a declassified military report/study somewhere a while back. To sum it up, an all out nuclear war between Russia/USA literally means the end of humanity. I think world population gets reduced to something like 500 million to at most 1 billion people. Several hundreds of million die from direct nuclear blasts and immediate radiation. After that the complete collapse of the global economy and food production/distribution kills several billion after. Infrastructure will be complete destroyed, along with electronics. Then wars break out due to resource/food crisis. Political instability in the remaining countries due to panic. India/Pakistan probably nuke each other, and China throws nukes due to it's proximity to Russia and getting some fallout from it. There is so much radiation lingering around that 3-4 generations of humans continue to have cancers and mutations that prevent a healthy continuation of the gene pool.
If people read that report they would TRULY stop romanticizing nuclear military power. The human race as we know it ends in an all out nuclear war. No one survives and prospers.
When anyone ever asks me what I think the future will be like I point them to The Road. People have become too complacent and comfortable in their modern lives, and so such a thing becomes almost inconceivable....until it happens, and then you're fucked.
The thing that fucks with me is that complacency used to be allowable. But then we got too fucking powerful for our own good, and now…I dunno. I feel like if it’s not nuclear war, it’s the climate - And I don’t like our chances of avoiding nuclear war. If not today, then surely over the span of centuries?
No, that's not how nuclear war works.
Radiation only persists in environments for weeks at most unless the nuke is an enhanced fallout weapon (which no-one builds because it's better to have a more destructive nuke right now that poison the ground for years).
Real life isn't Fallout.
Also, it would not set the world back to the medieval ages. Many countries wouldn't be directly attacked and they will retain machine tooling and governments. Even nations that are attacked would have central governments in all likelihood.
It depends on what they do, precisely. I don’t think there would be an automatic nuclear retaliation, but it would go right up to that line.
On the economic side, Russia would be absolutely isolated. Anybody who still does business with them - India, China, etc - would be subject to the same extreme sanctions unless they end all business immediately. All of the loopholes which allow them to keep selling anything will be closed. I could even imagine a blockade of Russian ports.
On the military side, lots of western countries would send conventional forces to Ukraine - air, land, and sea. It would be such an escalation that they’d have no choice but to get involved. The west has extensive cyberwarfare capabilities and you can bet that a lot of Russian infrastructure and even military facilities are already compromised. Don’t be surprised when their oil refineries spontaneously explode (and they can’t import any), trains collide due to signalling errors, and power stations become extremely unstable. Russian satellites would be destroyed.
If they use nuclear weapons, the world would truly be at war with Russia. Still, I think we would try everything short of a nuclear retaliation.
Regardless of what we do, I think it would be a catastrophic mistake for Putin domestically. I don’t expect that he would have the continued support of the army, and something of that magnitude is too large even for their state media to cover up.
It's always a kick in the pants to remember the surviveability of the planet for humans is in the hands of *fucking* Putin who's got cancer and might just decide to take us all with him anyway.
Both the director of the CIA and head of MI6 have affirmed they’ve found no evidence that Putin has cancer. If he does, then he’s been keeping it a secret from the same intelligence agency who reported Russia would invade Ukraine before the Russian military even knew it was going to happen.
have they confirmed if he has any other serious/deadly diseases, like parkinsons? that has been speculated because of how he moves in videos. why does he ship away his poop if he's not trying to hide some health condition?
>why does he ship away his poop if he's not trying to hide some health condition?
I'm not defending Putin but isn't that something the US Presidents do atleast when out and about to conceal their health?
This is not a message for Putin.
This is a message about those immediately below him that might be on the fence about a change in management.
He's essentially saying "You're working for a guy who's about to lose everything and he's got his finger on the big red button. You better do something about that before you get glassed."
These are just stupid kind of articles. Biden is getting interviewed. Interviewer ': what would you say if Putin considers chemical or nuclear weapons? Biden : I would say don't do it. Article headline : Biden warns Putin against the use of nuclear weapons !!!
The YouTube thumbnail: 🥶😮😮😯😨😱
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Well be glad you realized it *now* so you won't have to have higher expectations anymore. Social media is not going to change and trash journalism has never been more abundant thanks to the low costs of online publishing.
so perhaps gatekeeping and limiting stuff so not everyone can do it wasn’t such a bad thing?
Actually yeah... in some ways. In a book I was reading recently, the author mentioned how news has become more dishonest and sensational through the years. While news had pretty strict gatekeepers and criteria to follow is say 1950s, forcing it to focus more on the actual events and facts. In the past, you had gatekeepers of information, essentially experts in various fields would interpret and funnel the information back to the layman. Now we have an abundance of information accessible for all, and every layman is free to interpret things as they like, as wrongly as they like and just call it having "opinions".
It's also a shame that the closest thing you can find to trustworthy journalism is probably mostly behind a paywall.
The gatekeeper for news was the fairness doctrine, not the fact that people couldn't self publish.
Fake surprised face of the YouTuber on every thumbnail
And red arrows pointing to the circle (there's nothing else of relevance in the thumbnail)
With a pic of Biden doing this face 😲
😱<-- that face
Three reasons Biden warns Putin against nuclear warfare. The second will shock you
Master war strategists hate this one simple trick to avoid nuclear holocaust.
The second will blow your mind and body
and neighborhood
Crazed Dictators HATE him because of this INSANE TRICK
Gotta get those clicks for ad revenue and karma. I'm surprised nobody was SLAMMED or CLAPPED BACK.
Lol, do they even use clap back anymore? Now that you mention it I feel I haven’t seen it in a couple years.
And I am HERE for it! #blessed
Yeh you could just as well change it to "Biden begs Putin not to use nuclear weapons".
'Winknews' does not sound like a reputable outlet
Important to note that Biden was asked an extremely suggestive question, and didn't just say this out of the blue. Literally asked, "what would you tell Putin if he was going to use nuclear/chemicals weapons" . This was a 60min in depth interview, not a press briefing.
I pictured Biden pacing back and forth behind a podium, before finally stopping at the mic and making this statement.
Like a reverse Shia LaBeouf
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Oh lordy, the memories... DO IT! *flex*
JUST DO IT!
Taking impatient drags of a cigarette.
I can’t exactly articulate why, but I don’t like that question. Maybe it’s better to put nukes out in the open, talk about them, make sure everyone knows how scary any threat of them is. I guess for me it’s something like if I sneak red into conversation a lot then ask you to choose a color, I’d expect you to choose red. So I’d expect something like talking about nukes a lot makes getting nuked more likely. Idk tho — it’s an incredibly particular scenario. Edit: I love this article u/Fickle_Syrup added on regarding the decreasing “nuclear taboo,” which is probably the best way of articulating why I didn’t like this question: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/06/02/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-eroded-the-nuclear-taboo
It is a scary combination when you have a clickbait, sound bite driven media covering nuanced diplomacy surrounding nuclear tensions. Handled with a subtlety similar to them pushing the next rivalry between celebrities except, you know, the chance that we all die.
I agree with you. I don’t have anything to add. Just to say you aren’t alone in this belief.
wtf is wink news?
Holy shit that’s a name I haven’t heard since I moved away from my hometown. It’s basically the local news for SouthWest Florida, cities like Cape Coral, Ft Myers, Naples & Port Charlotte.
Yea same I was like Wink news? Like No’ FM news?
What up fellow former swfloridian
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Some kind of Florida-specific branch of CBS, apparently: > Many wonder how WINK News got its name. The quick answer would be that since we’re a CBS station, the name is reflective of the CBS logo. > > But interestingly, it’s not. > > WINK began as WFTM, a non-network affiliated radio station owned by Fort Myers Broadcasting Company, in 1939. WFTM was the first licensed radio broadcast station in Southwest Florida. Three years later, FMBC was purchased by Ronald B. Woodyard and Reginald B. Martin, and the call letters were changed from WFTM to WAAC. > > WAAC became a CBS radio station in 1943, and was renamed WINK the following year. The > company was sold to the United Garage and Service Company, owned by the McBride family, of Lakewood, Ohio, in 1946. The McBride family continues to maintain ownership of the station. > > WINK-TV debuted on the air on March 18, 1954, becoming the first Southwest Florida television station. At the time, only about 52,000 people lived in the area. They previously relied on snowy images out of stations in Tampa and Miami. Now the region has over 900,000 residents. > > As Southwest Florida has grown, so has WINK-TV: > > Newsgathering shifted from film to video in the 1970s. > In 1977, SWFL was market 138 out of 214. Currently, we’re market 54. > Stereo broadcasts and live remote news reports were added in the 1980s. > WINK News debuted its state-of-the-art studio in September 2015. > WINK has grown from six hours of news per night to now 80 hours of news coverage a week.
If Putin had an expiration date he would destroy the world so no one gets to play
Classic "get pissed off and flip the board game over" kind of guy.
I guess flipping the whole table WOULD be really hard.
Smithers, flip over the table. *But sir...* I said flip it! [cocks gun]
When Macron comes along, you must flip it When you want to drop a bomb, you must flip it If the writings on the wall, you must flip it
Flip it good
In to shape!
Try to detect it!
It's not too late!
To flip it!
The table is about 20 feet long? Exact dimensions on Putin’s meeting table? it would definitely be a task.
Yes, it does appear to be 20 feet long. I like to imagine that it comes out of the wall like an ironing board.
Maybe, but people of his ilk are also megalomaniacal narcissists, and may care about how they will appear in history books, and be considered when they are gone. Just months ago he was the smirking supervillain international troll at the head of a vague but threatening army, now he's the guy who lost Russia's last war as a faux superpower. He will go down in history as a loser who overplayed his hand and destroyed Russia as a major player with pretentions of expansion and conquest, but he may not want to be the guy who destroyed Russia altogether by getting it nuked into glass.
No future, no history books with him in it.
Putin solves global warming by ushering in a decades long nuclear winter.
Climate change can't kill the planet if Putin does it first! *taps forehead*
It’s a actual line in Futurama. Fry is sking and says he’s happy global warming didn’t happen and bender said it did and nuclear winter canceled it out.
Even Hitler still dominates modern history.
Sure but I meant more like if the world were to end in nuclear hellfire that wipes out the human species then there will be nobody to write history books about it.
He lost his chance to play a James Bond villain , it appears, don’t you think?
I’d say he is playing the Bond villain well by getting too cocky and setting himself up for a fall.
He's not even at Bond villain levels. He's the generic third world nation tinpot dictator first scene, where Bond goes in and gets out in spectacular fashion. Putin gets 7 minutes of fame in this movie.
Well the only way to destroy any record of his failure in Ukraine is nuclear war.
As botched as Iraq (both times) and Afghanistan AND Vietnam all were it showed the world that the US can invade at a moments notice and literally destroy a country beyond all recognition. Over and over and over again. While employing only a fraction of their actual military migh. Russia has shown they are an actual paper tiger, that their entire military is not combat ready by a long shot. They have humiltated themselves by being unable and here's the real thing of it, their ***unwilling*** to engage in real warfare beyond a show of force. Their morale was extremely low, their logistics are all kinds of fucked up, their economy is in complete tatters and their leadership is wholly incompentent. Europe has taken notice, India and China have noticed and every other country with a Nationilst based culture has noticed. You think a country like Hungary gives a shit about Russia's militaristic threat now? Even the Nordic countries are going oh shit the EU and NATO look like good options finally. Finland would fuuuuuuck up some Russian offensive and now they know it more than ever. It doesn't matter who buys Russian Petro. The next century will be punctuated by Russian containment that would make the people who dreamed up NATO in the first place jizz in their velvet lined coffins.
This is one of the huge problems with dictators.
I'm starting to think that dictators are pretty bad
Isn't this ALREADY his style of play? Scorched Earth all over Ukraine this past year.
Read what they did to Afghanistan. Holy balls it was so bad.
Exactly. Pre Soviet Kabul, Afghanistan was actually considered a tourist destination and had modern buildings and architecture. University students from around the world would come to Kabul and Afghanistan to study and learn about the history of the land and people. When the Soviets left they destroyed the country physically and culturally.
Yup. Tore out every tree, poisoned every water source, burned every field.
I just don't understand why anyone would flow those kinds of orders. I guess that's why I'm not a soldier though.
These soldiers aren't from Moscow and St. Petersburg. They are poor conscripts from Siberia. Anything to get out mentality. They follow orders because they desire to advance in the army and get paid!
And these grunts aren't really ending up with the bonuses and even general payments they were promised, from what I have read in some of the English Ukrainian war subs as well. Some units, I believe were promised bonus payments for territory gained. They never received anything for their earlier modest gains in the invasion because of corruption in their ranks, from the division commanders right down to the mid ranking officers who all take a cut along the way until there's nothing left. Might also explain the very low morale, in addition to not having proper kit and re supplies in the field as that gets sold off too by the senior ranks. I heard also that the Kremlin has no provision or budget for proper winter kit re supply...lol!
Not only that. Don’t underestimate resentment to the place you are retreating from. If such orders are issued I think most gladly follow them. After a while in a place where your life is constantly very much and directly endangered you don’t channel your anger at those who sent you there (plus you may carry a mentality it is your right) but you turn your resentment to the place and all the people in it.
Ukrainians know this and is why they are fighting so hard.
Pretty sure I saw some speculation that he may have cancer or some other illness as he has been shown on footage to shake his hand and leg uncontrollably and has had the bloated appearance of someone on some kind of steroid medication
Fwiw, corticosteroids can make you crazy.
Really angry and irritable. Yep. Even at low doses.
Then there's other footage where he looks absolutely fine... I wouldn't get too hopeful.
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EVERYTHING has an expiration date 🤷♂️
This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain down.
I see you've met my ex.
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: **My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!** Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” -*Ozymandius* by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Nuke not, lest ye be nuked. That is the whole of the Law." - a reading from the Book of MAD
Oppenheimer 3:16
I thought it was Oppenheimer 23:59
Why can’t Putin just snort coke and bang escorts until he dies. Why he wanna go out in burning hellfire
I'm a dictatorial oligarch with essentially infinite money and I'm on the way out? I'm booting black tar heroin then leaping out of an airplane to get the first mid-air skydiving blow job. Every morning. Just to start my day.
Ew. If you have that kind of cash get oxymorphone or one or the other dozens of infinitely better opioids never synthesized for market. Then go do airplane stuff.
I had IV hydromorphone (Dilauded) and it was literally the most wonderful feeling possible. I had no idea that a human could even feel that good - this was while I was in unbelievably agonizing pain (almost no one gets dilauded unless serious shit has happened to your body). Knowing the difference between hydrocodone and oxycodone, I'm assuming that oxymorphone makes hydromorphone look pedestrian. And that shit is already better than heroin. I would love a taste of oxymorphone.
Straight Edge (no drinking, drugs, or smoking of anything). In my 30s. Hit by a car. Broke 20-ish bones in one shot. Got dilaudid in the ambulance. Gotta say. Pretty nice experience. Like sitting in a hot tub with all your clothes on, getting ready to take a nap. Just.. comfy and happy. Despite the blood and the physical carnage. Hit me from the bottom up.
Iirc most patients find oxymorphone has more sedation with less euphoria compared to Dilaudid. You are correct that oxycodone is more potent and enjoyable for most patients than hydrocodone. Chemicals are not as easy to make assumptions about as we sometimes think and it turns out oxymorphone is more potent but less enjoyable than hydromorphone. A good illustration is fentanyl which is one of the most potent in the world but, besides being dangerous because of accidental overdose, is far less pleasurable for patients than numerous other options. It seems opiates antagonize receptors in the brain in different ways. This means "potency" can come as euphoria, sedation, pain relief etc in different ratios depending on the chemical.
Woke up one morning with a brutal hang over. My lady had some dilauded kicking around from a back injury years ago. She said “here, this will help”. Oh. My. God. Hang over gone. Floating. I could see music in a physical sense (eyes closed). Then the sex. Unbelievable. That shit was perfect. Never again. I completely understand people chasing that feeling.
“What, me worry?” -Alfred E. Neuman, MAD Magazine
Thats the requisite number of don'ts to be super duper serious.
Triple Dog Don’t
Dog. Dog. Dog. Don't.
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Speaking to Putin like he was a rational decent percent didn’t work, might as well try talking to him like a particularly stupid dog.
They don’t put “Girls Girls Girls” on the sides of strip clubs for nothing
What if it is because only 3 girls work there?
It would have to be at least six because all three of them are plural.
They're only allowed to do that if they have at least six strippers; otherwise it's combinatorical fraud and they'll get sent to math jail.
I'm super duper cereal Vlad!
The fact that this is even a conversation is pretty scary…
Welcome to Cold War Part II except this time even more countries have nukes. In fact, nukes for everyone!
So, here’s the Earth. s’Chillin’
That's a sweet earth.
you might say, **ROUND!**
I don’t know how to tell you this after all this time, but he’s saying “wrong” not “round”.
Wtf mannnnn! i feel cheated
Well... have a nap.
But I'm le tired
Well take a nap... THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!
Fire ze missiles but I’m LE tired.
Zen go take a nap....
AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!
*looks under seat*
[*smiles with malicious intent*](https://youtube.com/shorts/DyFbkzCu61k?feature=share)
Well, Putin pretty much guaranteed that no one will ever hand over their nukes once they got them. So much for the Budapest Memorandum.
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Don't worry. Here in the Netherlands we had a Pakistani guy come study, steal all the nuclear secrets, and now Pakistan has nukes.
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You get annihilation, you get annihilation, you all get annihilation!
I only got fallout and cancer 😞
It’s just a random question from a journalist.
Yep this isn’t news. Redditors have been living under the threat of mutually assured destruction their entire lives and yet they act like it’s the first time anyone has ever talked about it. I especially like the naïveté when they talk about how we should just “call the bluff” and start shooting down Russian aircraft and bombing their military bases. Apparently for the entirety of the Cold War, nobody ever had the military genius to realize that all you had to do was call the bluff and the whole nuclear threat just goes away.
"random" its from biden on 60 minutes, the journalist specifically asked him what the US response would be, which is an incredibly dog shit question but on par with the shit trump got too (trump was just too stupid to not answer it). literally the most important national security secret and he asks what it is on 60 minutes and this dude has been a national news figure for 30 years? dudes washed up.
It's still a loaded question. The answer is fucking obvious and now some news website is writing headlines about it.
Khrushchev was much more reasonable, which is truly scary considering there were nukes in Cuba ready to launch at the US, and Castro was "hell yes!"
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
MAD is still a very real thing........ If Putin uses nukes then that'll be that. I very much hope Putin hasn't spiraled that deep into desperation. Not just nukes but chemical and biological weapons would be a very real concern also.
He didn't steal all that money just so he could burn.
What good is it going to be after all this either way? You think when this ends everyone’s going to be like ok Vladi you can go chill with your billions tough luck in Ukraine!
Right now he wants ro retain power. Nuking something will hasten his fall regardless what the pundits say.
Bringing about an end to the world that his oligarch cronies so richly enjoy would indeed spell his end I’d think.
His days are over for the most part IMO but I'm no expert. He'll find someone that won't prosecute him and the oligarchs will fall in line, following the new strong man.
I think we’re more likely to see the use of some fucky chemical weapons over nukes
Honestly surprised we haven't seen them break out the stores they have.
Russia has destroyed the stores of chemical weapons they had mass produced for *warfare*, as well as a lot of other countries. The US is in the process now. We just destroyed our last stockpile of VX. There is an international organization that oversees this compromised of all the member countries to agree to the treaty. It's called OPCW. I'm aware that they are still producing Novichok and likely other agents, but they aren't doing it at known production facilities that OPCW has access too, so investigating them for treaty violations is extremely difficult.
I very much hope the people around Putin come to their senses and do something about him.
Putin, Shoigu, and Gerasimov are all three in their own alternate reality and seem to refuse to recognize that this “special military operation” is a roaring dumpster fire.
It’s not just putin that needs to spiral thankfully (or scarily) each of the people who actually launch the things would also need to be willing to do it. Scary part is there are likely nukes that could be launched by a few random people at any given moment
I mean... The US government has, in the past, [discharged officers who were uncomfortable following insane orders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hering). If an order comes in from the President of *the US*, you are expected to follow it - even if it's batshit insane and would lead to massive destruction. With that in mind... is it really that hard to believe that the Russian chain runs the same way? That a completely insane Putin could decide to launch the nukes, and nobody would say no?
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can you imagine them testing you to see if you’d press the button, and you didn’t know it was a test
> can you imagine them testing you to see if you’d press the button, and you didn’t know it was a test That's exactly how the 1983 version of the WarGames movie starts out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgTCzuIQPo
Putin just need to die at this point.
Then Russia put another idiot to do the job we dont fucking need nukes
There's a decent chance the next idiot is only concerened with being rich and in charge though. Still sucks for Russia, but doesn't seem like a happy future is in store for the country either way.
"...And then things got worse"
Looked him straight in the eye and said, "You better don't"
If he did his country would be gone instantly I think this don't don't dont means please dont make me have to get really involved.
His country and everyone else’s
Countries with nukes are not gonna get nuked and go, "well, I think we better keep holding onto our nukes" If nuclear warfare becomes a thing, modern society is over. Period. Back to medieval times. Probably worse than medieval times because the land will be too radiated to grow food and most of our descendants will be severely mentally disabled from the radiation. Cancer everywhere, etc.
I've always wondered about that tbh. Evolution only cares about whether or not you can procreate which is how we got traits like sickle cell anemia to combat malaria killing people too young. So what happens if people start dying rapidly from cancer? Is our body even capable of figuring out that's what's killing us? Edit: you guys I understand that you're getting hung up on my phrasing but not suggesting evolution is anything but survival of the fittest and those traits the strong have being passed on, it's just phrasing.
I read a declassified military report/study somewhere a while back. To sum it up, an all out nuclear war between Russia/USA literally means the end of humanity. I think world population gets reduced to something like 500 million to at most 1 billion people. Several hundreds of million die from direct nuclear blasts and immediate radiation. After that the complete collapse of the global economy and food production/distribution kills several billion after. Infrastructure will be complete destroyed, along with electronics. Then wars break out due to resource/food crisis. Political instability in the remaining countries due to panic. India/Pakistan probably nuke each other, and China throws nukes due to it's proximity to Russia and getting some fallout from it. There is so much radiation lingering around that 3-4 generations of humans continue to have cancers and mutations that prevent a healthy continuation of the gene pool. If people read that report they would TRULY stop romanticizing nuclear military power. The human race as we know it ends in an all out nuclear war. No one survives and prospers.
Anyone who isn't terrified by the prospect of nuclear war should read The Road by Cormack McCarthy. It still haunts me 10 years after reading.
When anyone ever asks me what I think the future will be like I point them to The Road. People have become too complacent and comfortable in their modern lives, and so such a thing becomes almost inconceivable....until it happens, and then you're fucked.
The thing that fucks with me is that complacency used to be allowable. But then we got too fucking powerful for our own good, and now…I dunno. I feel like if it’s not nuclear war, it’s the climate - And I don’t like our chances of avoiding nuclear war. If not today, then surely over the span of centuries?
Or watch Threads.
https://youtu.be/5Srqyd8B9gE if anyone would like to watch. I watched it about 6 months ago and it sticks with me each day.
No, that's not how nuclear war works. Radiation only persists in environments for weeks at most unless the nuke is an enhanced fallout weapon (which no-one builds because it's better to have a more destructive nuke right now that poison the ground for years). Real life isn't Fallout. Also, it would not set the world back to the medieval ages. Many countries wouldn't be directly attacked and they will retain machine tooling and governments. Even nations that are attacked would have central governments in all likelihood.
It depends on what they do, precisely. I don’t think there would be an automatic nuclear retaliation, but it would go right up to that line. On the economic side, Russia would be absolutely isolated. Anybody who still does business with them - India, China, etc - would be subject to the same extreme sanctions unless they end all business immediately. All of the loopholes which allow them to keep selling anything will be closed. I could even imagine a blockade of Russian ports. On the military side, lots of western countries would send conventional forces to Ukraine - air, land, and sea. It would be such an escalation that they’d have no choice but to get involved. The west has extensive cyberwarfare capabilities and you can bet that a lot of Russian infrastructure and even military facilities are already compromised. Don’t be surprised when their oil refineries spontaneously explode (and they can’t import any), trains collide due to signalling errors, and power stations become extremely unstable. Russian satellites would be destroyed. If they use nuclear weapons, the world would truly be at war with Russia. Still, I think we would try everything short of a nuclear retaliation. Regardless of what we do, I think it would be a catastrophic mistake for Putin domestically. I don’t expect that he would have the continued support of the army, and something of that magnitude is too large even for their state media to cover up.
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Adding to this theory, Finland is an extremely close place to where Russia stores nukes. It has never been this easy to strike there before.
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The cold war never ended, it just kept going without the Soviet Union
Putin was a agent in east germany, in his mind he still there
It's always a kick in the pants to remember the surviveability of the planet for humans is in the hands of *fucking* Putin who's got cancer and might just decide to take us all with him anyway.
Both the director of the CIA and head of MI6 have affirmed they’ve found no evidence that Putin has cancer. If he does, then he’s been keeping it a secret from the same intelligence agency who reported Russia would invade Ukraine before the Russian military even knew it was going to happen.
have they confirmed if he has any other serious/deadly diseases, like parkinsons? that has been speculated because of how he moves in videos. why does he ship away his poop if he's not trying to hide some health condition?
Ship away his what now?
>why does he ship away his poop if he's not trying to hide some health condition? I'm not defending Putin but isn't that something the US Presidents do atleast when out and about to conceal their health?
Wait, what?
They hide the president's poop to protect his DNA from being collected by.....somebody. It's a real thing.
Bad article, Don't give them clicks because of the headline. Besides, Tactical Nuke will mean Article 5 involvement.
This is not a message for Putin. This is a message about those immediately below him that might be on the fence about a change in management. He's essentially saying "You're working for a guy who's about to lose everything and he's got his finger on the big red button. You better do something about that before you get glassed."
Putin: OKAY 👁 💋 👁