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Dear Mr Putin,
Please don't TARGET BLACKPOOL. It would be a huge waste of a missile as there isn't any SECRET GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN BLACKPOOL. Let me be clear, we'll respond with a strongly worded letter if you AIM FOR BLACKPOOL. It will cost us tens of pounds to repair the damage, and we simply haven't got enough money left after giving billions to various government contractors.
Kind regards, Someone that has been to Blackpool
Russia started the Ukraine war in 2014 by attacking Crimea. Then they escalated the war in 2022 by attacking all of Ukraine.
No other escalations have happened. Claiming that it has is typical russotroll bullshit.
escalations are escalations, justifiable or not.
Oh yeah, it was Tuesday yesterday.
I cannot wait for the old fart to fart his last fart.
Fun fact, gut bacteria continue living for a while after the host is dead. So the last fart will be posthumous.
Do you think they mourn our passing?
They mourn by passing
They mourn our passing with gas passing
(mournful pffft squeaaaak noises)
Blowing up the Brits is a nice olive branch, but I think we'll need more commitment if we want a lasting peace deal
Please end our suffering (as a Brit)
As a Brit, I approve of this message.
Hitting London with a ballistic missile would bring the rents down. Maybe this is a good thing.
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.
Please do it Putin. WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse, Poland's ~~chomping~~ champing at the bit for the excuse and we really want to see how long it takes them to rush Moscow.
Edit: damn it Lemmy, I'm an engineer not a dictionary.
Pushes glasses in It’s actually “champing.”
"My subscribers are pogchamping me, Simperial. Can you say the same?"
Which is exactly why he's not going to, and everyone knows it. This is to look strong for his own domestic audience.
The threat that's actually for us is the one about arming it's own anti-Western proxies, and it did indeed make us think twice for a few months.
Just keep rattlin' that sabre, buddy.
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.
This is what I have been saying too. I think we will look back on this time and refer to it as the start of ww3.
Also technology is completely different than it ever has been. Like there was not a big tome or tech difference between ww1 and ww2. So a modern world war would look completely different making it difficult to identify.
So far it's been lots more grenade drones and cyber warfare than you got in the 20th century. Asymmetry is the name of the game, aside from urban positional fighting and more traditional focus on logistics and supply lines.
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.
Same way you go bankrupt; slowly, and then all at once.