• Flying SquidM
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    354 hours ago

    Hitting London with a ballistic missile would bring the rents down. Maybe this is a good thing.

    • r00ty
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      93 hours ago

      Well it would likely put them up, seeing as it would remove supply but, if you know Londoners you’ll know it won’t do a damn thing about demand.

      • Flying SquidM
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        13 hours ago

        At least they have good public transportation. But yeah, anyone making less than £100,000 a year, good luck finding anywhere with a train commute of under an hour.

        • r00ty
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          32 hours ago

          We moved into a home county. I grew up in London, but it’s just too expensive. We could have gotten a place there, but it would not be a good one, not be in a good area and likely be beyond our personal budget (the banks would give us the money, we wouldn’t accept it).

          Not regretting it at all really.

  • @ThePyroPython
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    244 hours ago

    Please do it Putin. WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse, Poland’s chomping at the bit for the excuse and we really want to see how long it takes them to rush Moscow.

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    214 hours ago

    Reminder that World War 2 had a gradual unfolding of declarations of war across several months or longer, depending on how you want to fuck that pig. I think we’re already in the onset of WWIII, in some sense.

    • r00ty
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      113 hours ago

      The thing is, if NATO is worth anything at all. Hitting a NATO country would bring a lot of declarations in a very short order. It would get very WW3, very quickly.

      • ThePowerOfGeek
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        33 hours ago

        That’s assuming Europe wasn’t economically stretched already, and America didn’t have an incoming president who wasn’t more interested in fellating Putin.

        • @[email protected]
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          248 minutes ago

          and America didn’t have an incoming president who wasn’t more interested in fellating Putin.

          That is a bit of a wildcard, isn’t it.

        • r00ty
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          52 hours ago

          Even if there’s financial concerns in Europe. We DO have reasonably strong airforces, modern weaponry and several nuclear enabled countries. I think it would be a big risk to take in their current position.

          My main concern is Trump tries to coerce Europe to leave Ukraine to fight alone. It all depends on how much in Putin’s pocket he is.

          • ThePowerOfGeek
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            62 hours ago

            He’s so far in Putin’s pocket that he’s snuggling up to his nutsack.

    • @IchNichtenLichten
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      11 hour ago

      I’m not sure we’re on a path to WWIII if it’s Russia vs everyone else. If China decides to get involved then maybe but I don’t see any evidence they’re willing to throw in with Putin, same with Iran.

      • @PriorityMotif
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        033 minutes ago

        There’s a 100% chance that Trump will send troops to Iran in the next year.

        • @IchNichtenLichten
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          131 minutes ago

          No there’s not. Where are you getting this absolute certainty from?

          • @PriorityMotif
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            125 minutes ago

            Trump’s relationship with Netanyahu and the relationship between Israel and Iran.

            • @IchNichtenLichten
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              121 minutes ago

              That doesn’t necessarily equate to there being a 100% certainty of boots on the ground in Iran though, does it?

    • @Mrkawfee
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      That’s terrifying because WW3 risks the use of nuclear weapons and every model of nuclear exchange that has been run always escalates to mutual assured destruction with billions dead and the end of civilization.

      I just finished listening to the audiobook of Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Highly recommend it.

      • @Sterile_Technique
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        146 minutes ago

        Civilization’s kinda shit anyway. We had a good run.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        83 hours ago

        The real slippery slopes are graded much less steeply than you’d expect

  • @[email protected]
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    43 hours ago

    This is “threatens the uk” :

    “We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”

    • palordrolap
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      62 hours ago

      “We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against what we say we believe to be military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”

      The important unsaid part needs to be in there. Whether an opponent actually puts military installations inside civilian locations or not (generally a bad move), this gives war criminals carte blanche to bomb whatever they feel like.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 minutes ago

        Not sure it’s helpful to imagine words that were not said, but that still a warning not a threat.

        • TimeSquirrel
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          128 minutes ago

          Welcome to geopolitics. The whole world runs on unsaid statements and ulterior motives. Up is down and down is up.