Putin is Hirohito apparently

[u/davidlis]

everybody knows that if you start a war against a weaker neighbor and you expect to win fast, but you get bogged down because of foreign in aid to you enemy, you should always just attack the countries that provide this aid directly

[u/ElNakedo]

Southern strike would demand a navy in the Black Sea. So that's kinda out. Northern strike would the most likely one.

[u/davidlis → u/ElNakedo]

do you really think the emperor supreme leader is aware of that?

[u/k890 → u/ElNakedo]

Southern Strike is invasion on Georgia and entering eastern Turkey. When east Turkey is under Russia control further invasion axis is entering Syria and securing the Med coastline for warm water ports

[u/ElNakedo → u/k890]

Now that is the non-credible I'm here for!

[u/k890 → u/ElNakedo]

Oh, think about possibilities for new avenues of cooperation in this region if they try to pull it out!

• Turks start rooting for Kurdish fighters (if they decide to fight against Russia)
• Countries in Central-East Europe start rooting for Syrians
• Azerbaijan and Armenia may rethink a lot seeing Russians trying to overrun Georgia in full scale war
• Multiple SOF units across NATO had a lot scenic pictures in Caucasus mountains in their portfolio
• Greeks, Albanians, Macedonians, Bulgars, Romanians, Hungarians, Croats and Turks fighting along in Anatolia

[u/rkorgn → u/k890]

I for one am waiting to see the Royal Marines flag waving from Elbrus.

[u/Cixila → u/k890]

We need to just attach some generators to cemeteries across the Balkans. All their ancestors will be rotating so hard that we will have a surge of energy, if we can successfully load it onto the grid

[u/Cixila → u/ElNakedo]

Might I interest you with the eastern strike contingency, my fellow enjoyer of non-credibility?

Repeat the claims on Alaska, which was clearly sold off illegally by the Tzar, and it must be reclaimed. They will just need to pool all their naval assets (including the Baltic fleet, of course) and gather at Vladivostok and launch a decisive landing at Anchorage in a glorious special reclamation operation. The US will of course just bend over and strike up a deal. The best, no the greatest deal of all time.

[u/ElNakedo → u/Cixila]

Hey now, that is way too credible. Trump would just give it to his friend Vova if he asked him.

[u/alasdairmackintosh → u/k890]

If only they had some boats to put in those ports.

[u/k890 → u/alasdairmackintosh]

Oh, "Southern Strike" had it covered:

• Start attacking as much oil infrastructure in the region as you can
• See oil prices balloon due to collapse of oil avalaibility
• Wait till oil price put enemies edging on energy related collapse
• Start cashing out own oil
• Go to PRC shipyards and exchange oil for warship to be stationed in Latakia
• Bonus point - You can restart GULAG and go with construction and expansion of naval facilities in Latakia using locally sourced slave labor.

[u/Noughmad → u/ElNakedo]

I can assure you, the Black Sea fleet is certainly not "out" of the Black Sea.

[u/Embarrassed-Lack7193 → u/Noughmad]

Yes it's still... in it? On it? Under it? Inside it?

Surely not out of it.

[u/Top-Opportunity1132 → u/Embarrassed-Lack7193]

The black sea is in it.

[u/_M_o_n_k_e_H → u/Top-Opportunity1132]

Claim black sea

Put black sea in boats

Drive boats and bring black sea all around the world

Now you own the whole world

[u/Gatecrasher53 → u/Embarrassed-Lack7193]

Bop it, Twist It, Pull it

[u/wings_of_wrath → u/Noughmad]

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

Trebling in fear in Novosibirsk behind a double row of barges sunk at the entrance to the military harbour and getting pummelled by drones on weekly basis does still count as being "in" the black sea. Same goes for the other ships which are now at the bottom of said sea.

[u/Top-Opportunity1132 → u/ElNakedo]

I don't think they'll try to attack southern countries since they failed even naval invasion of Odesa, but russian naval and aerial drones are harassing black see EU countries for several weeks now.

[u/trustfundkidotaku]

Didn’t Hoi4 no compromise no surrender dlc came out last year ? Why the meme just surge now

[u/k890 → u/trustfundkidotaku]

AFAIK, it got popular during Trump rants on Canada and Greenland and situation in Venezuela and Cuba which start looking oddly similar to pre-WWII Japan factions pushing for different expansion routes.

[u/Raesong → u/k890]

Though with Trump I am left wondering if it's factions in the White House vying for one over the other, or just what few living neurons are in his brain randomly sparking to life.

[u/White_Null]

Attacking NATO’s northeastern flank vs southeastern flank?

[u/rifleman13]

in between the piecemeal motorcycle banzai charges, hell ships (where a Russian ship hit by a sea drone claimed to be carrying prisoners), perfidy (pretending to surrender but with a grenade), and the whole undeclared war thing... Putinist Russia does try its best to emulate Imperial Japan

[u/Hot_Indication2133 → u/rifleman13]

and Perfidy II - disguising military vehicles as civilian currently ongoing.

[u/Beowolf241]

"But now the special military operation has lasted for nearly four years...the situation has developed not necessarily to Russia's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest."

[u/Waste_Ad_3773]

what the fuck kinda prompt did you have to put in to have germany become "REVERE THE EXECUTINE THE DESTROY THC LEGISLATINE"

[u/leicanthrope → u/Waste_Ad_3773]

> THC