• PinkOwls@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone have a link to the news story? Can’t find anything unfortunately.

    Russia withdrawing from the 2+4 treaty would be another dog whistle to the German right. In the 2+4 treaty, Germany dropped its claims on its former eastern territories in Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia. Thus Russia would signal towards the German far right: “We got your back when you want to have your former territories back. All you have to do is accept our claims in eastern Europe.”

    Yeah, it’s just another step in the playbook from “Foundations of Geopolitics”.

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      THEY GOT NOOOOOOOKS??? NO NOT NOOOOOOOOOOOKS!

      Oh my crimminey crickets, pls don’t tell me they have noooks, that means you get to do whatever you want to countries without noooks!

      Ah jeeze, we should probably roll over and just give Russia every slice of land some inbred French-speaking yokel who lived in Moscow inherited or conquered a few centuries ago, cuz Russia got noooks!!!111!!!

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      Given what the world in which we never stand up to Russia for fear of their nukes looks like, I’d rather we take the risk.

      • PugJesus@kbin.social
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        1. Because the cry of “But nuclear weapons!” is exactly the line Russia has been pushing since day 3 of this war, in which the lesson is “You can do anything you want to ‘lesser’ powers if you have nuclear weapons, up to and including genocide”

        2. Because they’re off by almost an entire order of magnitude (Russia is generally estimated to have 5,000-6,000 nukes, comparable to the US stockpile)

        3. Because this is NCD, and we yearn to die in nuclear hellfire here.

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          At the rate global warming is going, we’ll have 2 years of no summer. I’ll take it to 40C+ summers.

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        So you think we should back down and let them do their thing?

      • Olhonestjim
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        And they have to figure out which ones are working.