mastertigurius

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[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Who needs’em? If Uncle Vlad hears that Ze Germans are rolling across the Polish border, he’ll be skipping on one leg back to Russia while changing his soiled pants. :D

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Probably couldn’t trust Trump to come through, but you have to keep in mind that he’s not an autocrat quite yet. Not everyone in the US government shares his views on NATO and the commitments the US has pledged to under that alliance. Look at the rest of NATO. You have four of the top ten military powers in the world to start off with (UK, France, Turkey, Italy). Then add to that the rest of Europe and Poland’s own considerable military might. Canada would also join in, and those otherwise peaceful Canadians go fucking nuts when provoked. Even disregarding NATO, you have the Anglo-Polish Alliance, which is a mutual assurance that the UK provides military assistance (or vice versa) if their ally is invaded. Poland also has many close friends and allies in the old East Bloc, so the misconception that they would be left to their own devices is simply untrue.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO. In fact, their wish to join the EU and NATO could very well be the excuse Putin needed to start the invasion.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Most hilarious part of this meme is the people losing their minds in the comments. “Jesus wasn’t white, he was black! But he didn’t exist, stop with the religious nonsense!”

What else do we have left at this point?

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Ukraine not being a NATO member yet is most likely among the main reasons Putin had the balls to send troops across the border. There's absolutely no way he'd risk a full-on confrontation with NATO, because he knows it would be the end of the Russian Federation.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Your money or your life!"

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (22 children)

An attack on Poland would immediately invoke NATO Article 5, drawing in the combined forces of continental Europe, the UK, the US and Turkey. The world wouldn't need to worry about it going nuclear, conventional forces would have the Russians back over the Belarusian border by lunchtime.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't even live in the US, but the internet has conditioned me to prepare myself for something batshit insane whenever I read the words "Florida man". What's up with that?

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

"Omg, wait, let go! Oh.... That's actually really nice and warm, purrrrrrr...."

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Well, moral compass will be weighed up against personal finance (actual income has declined drastically in Norway) and whether Elon is a US problem or a Norway problem. A lot of people might think that Elon is a stinking Nazi turd, but we can't smell him on this side of the Atlantic. Not a good way of approaching the matter, mind you. We should keep in mind that throughout modern history, the US has had a habit of making their problems everyone else's, like the problematic uncle at the family Christmas gathering.

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