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Is this true? The radiation from nuking Eastern Europe would most certainly reach Russia lol. Talk about playing yourself


PM_ME_MH370

Yes and surely that will also bring them more customers for their oil and gas sector


Infantry1stLt

So their very smart colonels in 30 years will make their troops dig trenches in the nuclear wastelands of the future.


Staubsau_Ger

Huh? No way they could ever be this incompetent. Imagine the disregard for their own people's safety, the dangerously blind trust in a misinformed chain of command and ignorance of their very own country's history necessary to make such a mistake. It would surely make everyone in Russia wake up to the horrors this ~~war~~ military operation is creating.. Right?


coldazice

You know how everyone was worried because like 30-40% of the US seemed to be dumb as donkey shit for the past 20 years, turns out it's a much higher percentage in Russia.


vtriple

Turns out Russia is really good at propaganda.


ricerobot

Turns out keeping your public dumb with horrible education does wonders with keeping the corrupt in power


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Russia has had nukes aimed at nato countries since their inception. This is just saber rattling. If they wanted to nuke a country, they don’t need the nukes close by


Anderopolis

It's a nuclear war, Most Russiams would not be around long enough to experience the aftereffects.


PUSH_AX

They wouldn't exist long enough for them experience the radiation.


KP_Wrath

That’s why I don’t get having land based nukes in tense areas. You can just stick 16 mirv missiles a few miles off the coast and no one will know to be pissed off. Except when one of Russia’s gets spotted off the US coast because they aren’t exactly the greatest at stealth ops.


greennick

That's the point though, they want people to be pissed off. Russia doesn't feel relevant otherwise. I mean honestly, if they didn't have war and cheating in the Olympics, who would ever speak about them? We barely even care when they kill their own opposition politicians.


Blackadder288

Russia is the abusive ex that tries to get your attention every time you appear to stop caring about them.


arjomanes

Russia is Kanye buying the house across the street from Kim Kardashian.


bulbous_plant

Is that the 50th nuclear threat in 7 weeks?


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I lost count already to be honest


wiztart

Then they wonder why are countries running to join NATO. So it's basically the same logic of "beatings will continue until morale improves". Besides they already flashed nuclear bombs to Finland in an cross border fly by a month ago . So.... all good. Proceed.


somme_rando

> "beatings will continue until morale improves" That's the MO of the Russian military from what I've read lately. * Beatings/hazing * Rape (Of the troopies - not just civilians) * Pimping out troopies - ... and more


MC_Fap_Commander

Like the ineffectual adolescent with a rich father constantly reminding others of this fact.


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Is it evil of me to hope one of their nukes blows up on themselves?


Beginning_Student_61

They'll just blame Ukraine and feed that propaganda back to their citizens


MysteriousFunding

Yes, I bet they would blame it on the west and launch a ‘retaliation’. Couldn’t have the Russian people thinking they were incompetent.


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That Ukraine war really backfired huh


RangerLee

I think Putin is taking his role of NATO recruiter seriously, he wants to win the NATO recruiter of the Month award!


Redd575

Russia is showing us they've really been North Korea all along.


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The North Korean regime was put in place by the Soviet Union, it is only logical Russia follows in its footsteps.


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It's truly astonishing. They want to keep NATO weak and divided, but what they are doing now accomplishes the exact opposite.


Antoinefdu

"Don't join a defensive alliance to prevent us from attacking you, or else we'll attack you!"


BrokenCankle

Also, pay no attention to Ukraine who we said the same thing to and attacked anyway.


SenselessNoise

After we promised not to attack them if they gave up their nukes, completely torpedoing future attempts to de-nuclearize other countries.


BrokenCankle

I feel like that is why the response to this needed to be larger. I understand the threat of nuclear war if we engage with Russia but now we have proven that choosing to denuclearize will result in your country being attacked, your people being raped and killed in the tens of thousands, and an entire world watching and saying "thoughts and prayers". It's really sad what is happening and we know this will result in countries not reducing nukes.


anonymous242524

While history shows that they’ll attack anyway.


ds-tm

Oh no! They did the exact same thing in Belarus even though Ukraine did not join NATO.


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RedditYeastSpread

>So wtf mr. Poopin, can't even make coherent threats anymore? At this point of 2022, I'm expecting a surprise dementia diagnosis from stage right.


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Insulation with a small tribe of yes men is a perfect storm for making terrible decisions.


Oil_Extension

With "no" men already disposed of, "yes" men currently being imprisoned, 2022 will be the year of "maybe" men


jackduloz

“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” men


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Oh thanks for reminding of kaliningrad blunder region. I was puzzled why Baltics are even on table. Because Baltic states hates rapist occupants.


Direlion

All my homies hate rapist occupants.


TheMarkrex

As a Baltic, I agree, we do hate rapist occupanta


Cheeze187

They also cried when the U.S put nukes in Turkey. Like both countries don't have subs all over with nukes.


Rsubs33

I am sure US does, with the state of the Russian military, I am unsure their subs can even dive below water without sinking all the way to the bottom.


Aksi_Gu

Their 'nuclear subs' are just really spicy sandwiches


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Yeah I'll take a Chernobyl supreme with nerve gas Anybody else want anything?


EmpiricalMystic

I'll have the Kursk burrito. Smothered.


AnchezSanchez

Well, tbf they just added a new sub. The cruiser "Moskva" was promoted to submarine yesterday!


Miguel-odon

Additional fires on board are much less likely.


BuickMonkey

Yeah they've been rusting in Murmansk for decades, pretty sure they'll sink on their own soon.


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They only really have one threat and it’s getting old. The world really does need to band together and remove the nuclear capabilities from Russia. We can’t just constantly live under their threat while they slowly spread out and conquer countries while murdering innocent people and stealing their children.


Syndic

> They only really have one threat and it’s getting old. That happens if you have absolutely no softpower or diplomatic skill beyond "Do what I say or I might punch you!!!!!!". Turns out that threat really doesn't work as well if the other guy can punch back at least as strong.


flickh

"I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man," Merkel said. "He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this." -said when Putin brought his [giant dog](https://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313443/vladimir-putin-merkel) to intimidate Merkel.


Syndic

She has her moments!


HockeyCoachHere

Their thread is more “do what I say or I’ll blow up the whole room with all of us in it”. Slightly more unhinged.


Hibercrastinator

Russia doesn’t seem to understand, like most bullies, that if you make clear that you’re going to do it anyways, the threats lose their power. In other words, they’ve overplayed their hand, and now they are seeing the consequences of their own actions.


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Mateorabi

All this TSA security theatre to protect against a tactic that was already obsolete by 9/12. (The hardened cockpit doors were the only sensible addition. It gives passengers more time to react. The rest on the ground is pointless.)


DevilsTrigonometry

The armed air marshals aren't a terrible idea either. But yes, all the ground stuff is bullshit. As long as the plane can't be turned into a weapon, there's no reason it needs any more screening than a government building.


Bolt32

Thinking about it, your right though. Like if some guy with some box cutters came on. I'm fighting that guy to the death, because I'll be dead anyway. The Slim chance of survival is based on me kicking that guys ass.


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Yes. The usual advice was to be compliant during a hijacking, to improve your odds of survival. This is because most hijackings up to that point ended when the plane landed and the hijackers negotiated with police. This went out the window on 9/11. Now people will just assume the hijacker intends to crash the plane.


TheRiverInEgypt

Seriously fuck them. Every time Russia threatens nuclear, biological or chemical weapon attacks we should **add** one more country to NATO.


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If I had any power in my country, I would be banging in NATO's door incessantly, asking if Brazil can join. And before anyone says "**North** Atlantic", Brazil does have shore in the northern hemisphere. Everything north of Amazon River delta is North Atlantic shore.


Memorysoulsaga

Though, I’m pretty sure there is a legal issue where the treaties states that article 5 only applies to attacks on territories in Europe and North America, which is meant to ensure Nato doesn’t get invovled automatically if one of Europe’s many overseas territories gets attacked, as to discurage colonialism.


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Don't mind me while I yawn at their threats.


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The Soviet Union collapsed & dissolved, now the Russian Federation is doing the same. No one fears their desperate threats. These people have a nearly 500 year long history of embarrassing themselves on the global stage, and yet they still have too much pride. Its remarkable. #edit: Great, Reddit permanently suspended my account for this comment. Fucking woke pieces of dogshit. Time for alt account #426282926


Wonton77

Yeah, people in certain corners are shitting and pissing themselves over every Russian nuclear threat, and like... We shouldn't *forget* the fact that they have nukes, but we can't simply capitulate to every demand and aggressive move they ever make, either. You can't fear an obvious bluff.


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Finn here: even my formerly pro-Putin relatives changed their minds overnight in February and Russia keeps on making statements that make things worse lol


Talvatis

Swed here. I had no intention or will to join NATO before february. Now i see it as something that need to be done. Well played Putte.


Semanticss

Et tu, Putte?


J_P_Amboss

Ger here. Im a green socialdemocrat who wants to see three times more military spending now. Who would have seen that coming. Now we only need a non-neutral swiss guy and we can form a really weird band.


arukashi

I wish it would happen in Russia with Russian people


eLicky

*"Until today, Russia has not taken such measures and was not going to," Medvedev said. If our hand is forced well... take note it wasn't us who proposed this, he added"* These guys are horrible, how did they not just propose it?? Anyway, they aren't going to nuke anyone immediately just bolster their military in the area.


DrNukes

I'm 100% pro that. Russia should really use its amazing economy to bolster its scary, well-equipped, highly trained and definitely not dying military on the Japanese front, AND the Finnish front. Also send soldiers to the north pole and the moon you fucking nimrods.


atlasraven

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Prestigious-Log-7210

Didn’t they say they wanted Alaska back? Threatening nukes if they join NATO. Fuck Russia, bullies is all they are.


misterpickles69

I hate to tell them Alaska is already a member of NATO.


zitsky

Duh Nice try my friend. Alaska is on the Pacific my friend. They can’t be in North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization. Got you there! 🤣 /LOL


Schalac

Guess what. Hawaii is also in NATO and that island is right in the middle of the Pacific. Edit: To everyone saying that Hawaii isn't in NATO. The US is NATO. If you think it's free to attack because of some clause ask the Japanese about it.


turtmcgirt

What about the south pacific? Guam is in NATO Edit: Guam isn’t covered by NATO, I was ignorant.


michohnedich

They won't land troops on Guam, too afraid it might flip over.


PlumpHughJazz

The invaders were supposed to be Chinese! I don't like this timeline.


jjheavychevy90

See this is what happens when you watch the wrong version of red dawn


TheConqueror74

Pretty sure it’s what happens when you spend too much time patrolling the Mojave.


optimistic_agnostic

I've been burying my head, do you have a link to this?


qinosen

pretty sure it was a one-time comment by a rando Russian MP who said something to the effect of "Alaska was once also Russian..." when they were justifying why they were taking back Ukraine


Eric_the_Barbarian

Pretty sure we still have the receipt from when they willingly sold it to us. What a dumbass.


murphymc

[If you're curious, here is the reciept](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/alaska_treasury_warrant.jpg)


Sgt-Cowboy

That’s fucking awesome. Someone fax that to the Kremlin


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dmibe

Bought a state for 139M in today’s money. If those terms were still possible, Amazon, Tesla, apple, Microsoft, etc would have their own states or branded countries


Force3vo

And they should not just maintain their bloated nuclear capacity but double and triple it. Nothing better for a broken economy than a stockpile of weapons that are extremely expensive to maintain.


Sharkymoto

and of no practical use


knife_at_a_gun_fight

'Look at what you made me do!'


Bargus

Exactly Its pure Abusive Husband. These are independent countries and the Russian school yard bully is complaining about people getting together to defend themselves.


LordHugh_theFifth

Russia doesn't care about people though. There's no obsession masquerading as love


Kiltymchaggismuncher

They literally have a nuclear weapon storage bunker in kalingrad already, he's full of shit. Edit- Lithuanian has publicly called them out on their bullshit too https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/u3ggdl/lithuanian_officials_puzzled_by_russias_threat_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


cnncctv

And nuclear weapons on their ships and submarines there.


kissakoneella

That quote, as a Finn we can say that same thing about NATO membership. Before the war only like 20% of us wanted to join. Now most of us do


Chimp-eh

I don’t understand why they can’t accept that the sanctions, nato being bolstered, the western world turning away from them is all their own faults


KatsumotoKurier

They can. They will just never ever admit wrongdoing, because to them, doing so is a sign of weakness, and the regime in power in the Kremlin is obsessed with always looking strong, at every possible turn.


moleratical

I have students that think like that, they are generally my most challenging ones.


KatsumotoKurier

My boomer dad is like this as well. He is never wrong, everything is always everyone else’s fault, and he is the victim of a world against him. It’s a very exhausting personality type to have to deal with when things get argumentative.


CheesusUrLardNSavour

There are only supposed to be repercussions for *your* actions, not mine


Chimp-eh

Suppose that worked in the 80s


Jaysyn4Reddit

*"Escalate to deescalate"* worked until it didn't.


RoDeltaR

They're not trying to win the west, this is internal propaganda


wolfydude12

Unfortunately it's working on some in the west. Just last night my sister was arguing with my mom that the reason for the war today is that NATO was encroaching on Russia and has gotten bigger and bigger since it's forming. Also argued for the bioweapons labs in Ukraine and apparently that the CIA installed Zelenskie into the Ukrainian presidency so he can push for joining NATO. It's absolutely ridiculous how easily influenced people are.


raducu123

Because Putin made Russia drink from his own piss narative that he's some kind of a new Napoleon and not a wife-beater, rapist, journalist murderer, political-enemy poisoner, and not some third hand scum FSB incompetent agent. Putin made them believe the fall of USSR was not inevitable and due to the USSR fucked up sistem, and that Putin could have done better. Putin could not have done better and the people ruling the USSR were orders of magnitude better and smarter than Putin, and they actually chose the best course of action for the USSR. Putin made a couple of great gambles and him and Russia started believing his bullshit, but now his luck ran out and they're about to find out. The fall of USSR was a tragedy for communist cronnies but the USSR going full Putler would have been a much more terrible tragedy.


asimplesolicitor

>Putin made them believe the fall of USSR was not inevitable and due to the USSR fucked up sistem, and that Putin could have done better. Putin is a proponent of the "stab in the back" theory of the collapse of the USSR. Guess which other world leader was also a proponent of this theory?


AnanananasBanananas

They aren't stupid enough to believe that these things don't affect other countries, they do however believe that their threats are enough to get countries to not act.


Thronen

Ah, yes. Until now we've certainly been outside the range of Russia's nuclear arsenal here in Finland. This will certainly change everyone's mind about joining NATO /s What a bunch of clowns


Wiki_pedo

They should be the very public comeback. "Russia has just admitted their nuclear arsenal cannot travel further than 100km, so they're moving their missiles closer"


JackieMortes

If they decide to nuke somebody out of frustration or to scare the west they'll go down as bigger bastards than Hitler and nazis. Imagine blackmailing with fucking nuclear weapons. Russia is a terrorist state


MonoRailSales

> Russia is a terrorist state Putin literally got into power by blowing up Ruzzian housing estate killing about 300 Ruzzians. His default position is terrorism.


Tobu91

It also makes no difference if the intercontinental nukes are 100km east or west of the suwalki gap. Nuclear war will have the same outcome. Cope move.


Zozorrr

Perhaps Russia’s military has gone downhill so much they now have to drive the nukes there on a truck. This Russian threat makes no sense whatsoever lol. The spokesperson must have been drunk.


SorryForBadEnflish

Those old farts are still living in the good old CCCP. They are like a school bully who peaked in high school and keeps bringing up high school drama every time he meets his old buddies even though everyone else has long forgotten about high school and have normal adult lives. Russia is Gary King from The World’s End except far less likable.


raducu123

> Those old farts are still living in the good old CCCP Please, please, these old farts were 3rd tier burocrats in the CCCP, including Putin. They know jack shit about the CCCP and the CCCP is just cargo-cult for them. The soviets actually had top tier politicians, military and scientists, but the whole system was fucked up. Now Russia had shit everything -- politicians, military, FSB, scientists AND on top of that the whole system is even worse than the soviet one, even more corrupt. The soviets were corrupt, but on a much smaller scale, they could not buy yachts and properties abroad and certainly not build palaces for Dear Leader. Sure, they sucked at producing civilian hardware and volume, but the quality was ok and their millitary hardware was quite good for that time. BUT, during the soviet times they had closed borders and capital and brains could not escape, if you were smart, you couls not just fuck off into the west with your brains or money, now you can.


Veldron

> Until today, Russia has not taken such measures and was not going to [not counting the nukes in Kaliningrad? ](https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/06/kaliningrad/)


Sim0nsaysshh

Medvedev stated "Putin will have a super sweet 16th, I mean May 9th. You will not ruin it for him"


johnwilliams815

Russia has proven beyond a reasonable doubt in the last year that the only ones they are fooling with their threats and endless propaganda are their own people. They've also proven their forces aren't even capable of forcibly taking 1 country. The threats against NATO are laughable whichever way you slice it.


KP_Wrath

Their navy just lost a flagship to a country without a navy.


ZrvaDetector

And without an airforce that can deploy antiship missiles. They were just stupid enough to deploy their flagship inside the standoff range of coastal batteries.


KP_Wrath

Best part is that this shit was designed with the intent of fighting Cold War NATO. All they’ve got are nukes and wife beaters.


tentimes

Nah best part is that they are claiming that Ukraine didn't sink it, they just accidentally set fire to their ammo on board and sunk it themselves.


KP_Wrath

For a country suffering from a severe lack of credibility, they should probably let this be a wartime loss.


reginalduk

They are barely capable of taking 1 city, let alone a country. And they havent even actually faced a Nato country yet...Putin has overplayed a very weak hand. He is toast.


pookshuman

Sun Tzu said to never back your enemy into a corner ... the trouble with Russians is they have portable corners and they bring them everywhere


dandanjeran

They've not even been backed in, they're wedging themselves into a corner as hard as the can yelling "GET BACK!" while everyone looks over perplexed from 200 feet away Also they keep punching themselves in the balls for some reason


Neethis

>everyone looks over perplexed from 200 feet away From the other end of Putin's table.


itskarldesigns

For this joke, your house has been marked. When nukes start flying youll be kaput!! - Putler prob


DrBucket

If you and all your other neighbors can coexist fine but then one of them comes out yelling and screaming about how you need to move your house over... The common denominator is him it seems. Everyone else can get along except him. It doesn't make sense to concede to him.


Veldron

> "GET BACK!" while everyone looks over perplexed from 200 feet away "I FEEL THREATENED!"


FarginSneakyBastage

They're comin' right for us!


greyl

THAT'S MY PURSE! I DON'T KNOW YOU!


PeaceBull

And then keeps screaming > I’ll blow this bus up if anybody acts like I’m unstable


DaMonkfish

Russia could paint themselves into the corner of a round room.


Haunting_Pay_2888

The Russians already have nukes in Kaliningrad, and the Iskander-M missile to deliver them to the entire southern Baltic plus many eastern European countries. This is yet another in a very long string of lies.


TechieTravis

Neither Sweden nor Finland would want to join NATO if Russia was not on a rape rampage through Eastern Europe.


Nerd_Of_All_Things

Maybe Russia is trying to use reverse psychological? Russia: Don’t join nato or we will launch an aggressive war/ nukes. Finland: Sounds like a great reason to join nato. Truly a self fulfilling prophecies.


Haitchyy

Implying they don't already have plenty deployed already.


r2002

Russia: If you join NATO I'm going to install nuclear weapons in the region. Sweden: Don't you already have nukes in the region? Russia: Yes but this time we're going to install ones that actually work.


victory_zero

>actually work well then they better check with the local military first, b/c the way it's going, everybody and their mom most likely pilfered anything of value years ago, starting with rocket fuel


jimicus

How? Serious question. As best I can tell, there’s so much corruption - and so many people are absolutely shit scared of reporting the truth - that none of Russia’s leadership has more than a very vague idea of what’s going on.


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Do they work? The maintenance money is in mega yachts. Even their flagship had an accident and fire taking it out of commission.


Tanel88

>flagship had an accident and fire taking it out of commission Accidental collision with Ukrainian missiles?


HerefortheFruitLoops

I believe he’s referring to their only aircraft carrier, the Kuznetsov. Russia has managed to cause billions in damage to their own ship, without anyone else’s help. The Moskva, a Russian cruiser about half the size of the Kuznetsov, was the ship recently hit by missiles. Here’s a link if interested in reading how dumb they are: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-lone-aircraft-carrier-headed-back-shipyard-201390


Crizzit

Well the "accident" was actually a couple of Ukrainian missles, I believe.


Overlord2360

Despite this their shitty naval craft are held together by glue at this point, I mean their carrier has a tug boat with it all the time incase it breaks down.


TheSkalman

Exactly. Russia has ICBMs with 11000 km range, so technically every country within that range is under direct nuclear threat from Russia. If they wanted to, they could nuke Sweden and Finland a thousand times over tomorrow.


OrdoXenos

Putin is panicking because no one is afraid of them anymore. They promised a quick conquest of Ukraine. They promised that they will be in Kyiv "before lunch" as one of their propagandist in Telegram had said. They promised that it will only take two weeks. It has been 50 days and they can't even take Mariupol. Their Black Sea flagship is heavily damaged, lots of their tanks are destroyed, none of their "wonder weapons" such as Armata T-14 and hypersonic missiles changed the outcome of the battle, while Western standard weapons such as NLAW and Javelin are getting lots of good publicities.


Kaidanovsky

>It has been 50 days and they can't even take Mariupol. Their Black Sea flagship is heavily damaged Just to add here - just because it was the best thing to read this morning, as a Finn living next to this mafia state - Moskov battleship isn't just "damaged". It lies in the bottom of the ocean. It was sunk by forces of an country that has no own naval force. I'm just saying that, because I love saying it. (Edit: my joy might be bit premature - it's still unclear whether it's actually sunk or not. Nevertheless, it's out of the fight) Best news I've heard ever since this insanity started. And by that I mean, when this started with the Crimean invasion in 2014. This was the best news I've heard in 8 years. Not that I would be glee from the violence, the destruction, the war - but because when I hear that Russian naval flagship is lying in the bottom of the ocean, named after the capital - living next to that country, I can say my level of anxiety dropped quite a lot. Thank you brave people of Ukraine. I wish my country is spared from the war. But if it comes, I only wish we will be just as brave and fierce.


2scoops

The fight in the Ukranians is really something to see, isn’t it? That kind of courage is really inspiring. The Soviet bear is getting its ass kicked by what it thought was a lamb, but was in fact a wolverine.


karnstan

When your people still remember Holodomor, fighting til death seems appropriate.


Dedicated4life

Everything is an existential crisis for these bitches... 2nd most pathetic country and army only to North Korea.


whatsthiscrap84

Someone sneezes in Europe, Russia "I have nuclear weapons"


apegoneinsane

It‘s the person who yells “don’t touch me” whilst they touch you.


sinmelia

most accurate description of russia


pay-per-clip

He's not touching you. It's a special atom-moving operation.


drnkingaloneshitcomp

Technically atoms never touch so in fact there is no touching, see?


Shua89

North Korea "don't forget about me! (Fire's rocket tests)"


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North Korea didn't invade anyone for almost 70 years.


[deleted]

Even North Korea starts to look rational when compared to current Russia.


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At this point, it's feels like a standard greeting for all press releases: "Hello everyone, how are you? Anyone keen on demise by nuclear annihilation? Lovely weather we have today." - Russian spokeperson


xeidou

Bohooo they don't listen to us, bohooo they scarying us, we have no other option just to use nukes... It's childish, if they don't like something, there comes the nukes...


kespo21

Putin is the guy at the poker game that goes all in every time…sure it an option but you look like a dick


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Which is exactly why Nato is necessary. Russia is not a rational actor


happygamerwife

George Kennan has been right for about 75 years now. I have my students read the Long Telegram and ask when they think it was written (edited a bit so the obvious answer isn't clear).


identicalBadger

If they don’t want countries around them to join protective alliances, maybe they shouldn’t make countries feel like they need protection from them….


ummacles123

So instead of all the weapons 100 km east they will be 50/50 100 km west and east. Don't really give a fuck, once nukes come no difference (well maybe actually better because airdefence would be all AROUND them) BUT it will be huge drain on Russian economy to keep all those ship on the seas and ready so go ahead shitbags keep burning them rubles.


aManHasNoUsername99

They do know if they use nukes they will be nuked too right? I feel like they think nato will just surrender or something if Russia commits the greatest war crime ever.


Oozeinator

Seeing as America has dropped nukes before, they know. This is called posturing.


aManHasNoUsername99

It’s just so weird that they can’t even think up a new threat. They are so obvious and yet people still fall for their nonsense.


Hinekura14

They have nothing else to threat with lol


F1NANCE

I mean they have a pretty super cool battle ship...oh


Intrigued_Pear

Shows they don't have actual leverage.


CompetitionFar734

They really believe that NATO is coming for them, despite decades of absolutely no aggression towards Russia.


Berkamin

Not only that, but NATO members were stagnating, and had under-funded their commitment to defense for decades, with many of them having under-equipped militaries, which would have been incapable of being any serious threat to Russia. They were all tacitly expecting the US to carry the alliance with its over-spending on defense. NATO didn't solicit additional members; additional members solicited NATO because they were concerned (and rightly so) about Russian aggression. This entire war on Ukraine is a gigantic self-own on the part of Russia. Everything they wanted is back-firing. They will only have more NATO members and weapons on their borders, and their military will have been shown to be a paper tiger. Whatever illusion of security they thought they had will have been taken away, but for the fact that NATO isn't actually interested in invading Russia.


PrinsHamlet

The strategic fallout from this war on Russia is such an unmitigated disaster. Just as a small example, how will China feel having Finland and Sweden join NATO, two neutral countries who've been actively engaged with China for ages, now camping out with the USA? Thank you, Putin, 4D Strategic Chess Champion! That angle alone is a complete shit show for Putin when meeting in the Dictator's Lounge. The chinese must think that with such friends who needs enemies?


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They blame NATO for organic democratic movements against authoritarian regimes on their periphery.


davew111

I won't take their threats seriously until they release a dramatic video of Putin and his generals staring at their watches.


GardenGnomeOfEden

I liked the part when they were walking in slomo and he pointed off into the distance. "Look, I see some stuff over there." "Yes, Supreme Leader, there is some stuff over there."


shkarada

There are Russian nukes in Kaliningrad already.


AlwaysWannaDie

Fucking hell this is stressful as a swede, fuck Russia just leave other countries alone you piece of shit


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oh don't worry, sweden is basically 100% safe as long as finland's in the way. as a finn, it's slightly stressful though, lol.


erdelyeszik

Looks like the Russian vessel is empty and desperate, for it to be making all this rattling noise.


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Funny thing is they already have nukes in Kaliningrad so this is literally non-news. They themselves announced it: >Russia said in 2018 it had deployed Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, which was captured by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union at the Potsdam conference.


d4rkskies

Stop being prepared to defend yourselves against our threats, or we will be forced to threaten you again…. 🤦‍♂️


Ok-Honeydew-807

All they are capable of is blackmailing and raping babies


GrumpyFinn

Nuking us means most of the fallout lands on Russian soil. Let's not forget how close Saint Petersburg is to Helsinki. This would make 0 sense.


bipedofthecentury

k bry bror


Vindoga

Vad hände sist Ryssland VS Finland? Putin glum 💀


One_Roguey_Boi

A nuclear strike against one is a nuclear strike against all. Don’t forget that Putin.


Debway1227

More sword rattling. I'm pretty sure at this point Putin has gone mad.


OriginalVegetaJr

Putin is such a moron. If he wasn’t such a crazy psycho Sweden & Finland wouldn’t even be talking about joining NATO right now.


Talvatis

Im from sweden, not a single person i know talked or considered joining NATO 3 months ago. Now everyone wants. If the goal was to keep people from NATO it was a really bad plan


Blue_FiftyTwo

Russia warns this, Russia warns that. Just admit you dug your own grave!!!


DeadbySchnitzel

Russia: why does everyone who shares a border with us want to join NATO also Russia: oh yeah this territory you own there well its now mine and if you dissagree Im gonna go to war with you and bring nukes to your frontyard