• ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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      "How many Orcs can I kill today?

      Too many to count, don’t get in my way

      I shoot a mofo in the throat with my bow

      Tomahawk chop is my death blow!"

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    They are doing very well striking the oil infrastructure with homegrown solutions, so they would actually want the tomahawk for the tougher military targets, like command and control, airfields, supply bunkers etc.

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    I think he should continue using other weapons too. I doubt there are enough tomahawks to only use them.

    Edit: maybe he is only personally going to use tomahawks now. This makes more sense. I’d only use the best too if I was at the top.

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      I thought the same thing, then I realized “I think they mean they won’t use them for civilians (duh) or infrastructure (less duh).”

      “Only” as in “not for other targets” not “exclusively using THs.”

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    Escalation? YOU are the ones who for the past 3 years have been trying to destroy Ukraine. What should have been a 2 week “special military operation” has now become a 3 year embarassment, and total collapse of your military, your countrys resources, and your young male population for generations to come. Essentially putin, YOU have now gone down in history as russias biggest embarassment. You crippled your own country. And the worst part (for you) is that all of this is because you wanted a lasting legacy. And if you had just done nothing, you’d have gone down as the guy who rebuilt russias economy after the post cold war fallout years. If you just did nothing, you would be in a decent position today. And the rest of the world would still think your military is far stronger than it is/was.

    Instead, you pulled back the curtain, showed the whole world how weak you are. You lashed out, issued empty threats, had no way to follow through with your threats, and now you expect us to believe you have the balls to nuke anyone?

    You nuke Ukraine, or anyone for that matter, and ALL countries reign down upon you. That nuke would instantly be the end of russia, which has stood for over 1000 years. You would be the cause of it’s permanent end.

    Then again, you ARE known to be very stupid, and make the dumbest choices.

    Loser.

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      Nope, politicians are not military targets. And that makes sense. Nobody would ever talk and try to settle things diplomatically if they could be legally assassinated while doing so.

      Also, you can’t have a Nuremberg-style trial with the responsible people if you kill them. The military are following orders and doing what they are told (well, hopefully). The politicians are the ones with the highest responsibility for an invading army. An army serving the state won’t invade unless politicians tell them to.

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        I’m sure the fact that politicians tend to come from wealthy backgrounds has no factor whatsoever…

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      No I would not consider it a military target, a top military building HQ could be considered a target but I would think the international community would deem the literal capital of the country a non-military target.

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      You haven’t been following the development of that “weapons platform” very closely, then. It’s about as likely as Trump’s plan for rare earth metals.

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        I mean yeah I haven’t been following it that closely because I dont have the time or attention to follow more than the broad strokes of the war nowadays

        But even still from what I’ve seen it looks more likely than Trump’s ridiculous plan

        A lot of what I do actively consume about Ukraine is from https://youtube.com/@perunau (great channel btw), and whatever randomly crosses my lemmy feed

        EDIT:

        Wait a sec, after having done a bit of quick searching, it looks like it’s already confirmed to have been used a couple of times? And is actively in production? Why do you think it’s not real?

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            Tbh most of those points are irrelevant or make no sense, and are easily refutable (Id go down the list but I really don’t have the time rn, might do it this evening)

            The only potentially valid one is the corruption stuff, but I’d have to look into it more.

            Any other sources besides some random twitter guy?

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              Well, you could start by checking his sources, such as the Kyiv Independent. So, if his points are “irrelevant and make no sense”, you could start by explaining why points such as “the independent wrote about the project’s corruption” are wrong. Simply point out where he lies about the contents of the western media sources he uses (he doesn’t), I’ll wait.

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      I strongly encourage them to do this. Ukraine’s done a wonderful job of pressuring Russia to take a more hardline stance on the war and pushing them closer with China. But, “the last rep is the most important”. This final push is required.

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          What is an authoritarian? I am trying to identify them so I can deal with the issue handedly. You seem like an expert on authoritarianism so it ought to be easy.

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              Nice try, guy who doesn’t know what words mean or what’s going on. You’re in for a rough couple of years. Don’t say nobody warned you.

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                  I think Ledger made the best reference no one listens to every time they see the “movie” (Hell, even both those last two do the nick). I didn’t give anyone the consideration of meeting Chester’s word skills so well, with such a low odds to do so while taking his label of dying in the same fashion. I finally, recently, did so just out of whim to see how “bad” and was revealed to that they did it as well as even Gary Webb.

                  It does take a true commitment to learn itself when, despite not lacking skill in math, not know how to do it in a language no one acknowledges, like GPG.

                  The short is roughly that peace is but part of a puzzle because Mani Mani was just a model asked for. I could easily go on for damn near ever, but I no one listens to the listener.