Red wunz go fasta
Blues iz lucky
Yellow for da booms
Black iz tuff
Greenz da best!!1!
Whites fer da skully bitz
Ya eva seen a purple Ork? Dats cuz purple iz sneaky!
I dont think so. Because of Nukes I think the threshold for foreign countries to declare for either side is going to be much higher, ie a direct strike on their own soil. So at most they get nuked back by whichever big boy they thought they could take.
No, not really. The stolen Karelia is lost and we’ve made our peace with that fact.
There are a few idiots who nowadays mainly screech on the Internet and want to take it back, but about 99,9% of our population is content with the current borders
As is common to them, the Russians have not developed the infrastructure of the region and the old Finnish cities are in in pretty downbeat shape. The roads are in terrible condition (except the ones that lead to oligarch’s summer villas) and they’ve dumped their garbage everywhere. I’ve visited the fabled land of my ancestors and what I saw just made me sad.
Restoring Karelia even to a pre-WWII-level would take decades and probably cost tens of billions or even more. The population is almost purely ethnic Russians - what would we do with them?
If by some magic the land would be offered back to us, free of charge and without the current population, we would still be wary to take it. The old border basically went through the suburbs of St.Petersburg, that would eventually cause severe problems due to the unchanging nature of Russia. So no, let them keep it as long as they stay on their side of the border.
The last time they attacked we were unprepared and still they paid a heavy price. Now we’ve had almost 80 years to prepare our defenses, and we have oh so many glorious surprises ready if the need ever arises.
That is credible. Sorry about Karelia, it sounds like it WAS beautiful. Why did your country re open the border with Russia after recently closing it for about 2 weeks? They say it was due to illegal crossings? Your thoughts? Also, thanks for sending thousands of those little cube survival stoves to Ukranian forces, can you ship one to me COD? It’s 5C here.
If you set it as the post link it should embed automatically without needing to put anything in the post body
If that doesn’t work, you could also put it in the body like you’re trying by using this format: It’s also the same way to embed in comments
This one might be tough to make work since it’s a webm file rather than a real gif file. Lemmy and the various apps don’t do a great job handling video file formats.
Well unfortunately the first part is starting to be proven right, the Ukrainians are starting to give in to the sheer pressure of the infinite manpower of the Russian army.
Infinite how? Both countries have millions of military aged men, before either country actually runs out of manpower there would have to be a hundred Stalingrad battles. Clearly the population amount is not the bottleneck here. For either of them to use manpower as a “weapon” they’d have to throw naked men at machine guns hoping that bullets can’t be resupplied faster than they can draft.
Russia like any other nation has a very limited amount of manpower that they can leverage before consequences start to hit. So far they have avoided another mobilisation, but if the numbers dwindle enough they’ll have to do it and that is going to be very unpopular. They can’t afford to grind their men the way they’re doing but they’re doing it anyway, probably because they want to project the image of “endless manpower Russia” - if they can keep the farce long enough then maybe Ukraine’s allies will give up.
By believing this tankie nonsense you’re helping them. Don’t.
Russia has already started to try to find new sources of conscripts - estimates peg that between 40 to as much as 75% of the originally eligible are dead or got the hell outta Dodge. This is potentially why they just criminalized homosexuality - “you’re gay, you either go to prison for life (where you will likely be killed) or you get conscripted. Your choice”. Shit, they asked North Korea of all places for soldiers.
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