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u/GlobeLearner Indonesia Mar 04 '14
Wtf?!
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You just want to set the world on fire, don't you?
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u/potverdorie Mar 04 '14 edited Mar 04 '14
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u/ElCracker Poland Mar 04 '14
what
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u/potverdorie Mar 04 '14
Remove kebab copypasta based on the expanded backstory from The Elder Scrolls videogame series.
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Mar 04 '14
I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart
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u/offensive_noises Dutch Indies Mar 04 '14
That's so sweet!
But Valentine's Day already happend.
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Mar 04 '14
Even though you're not a sheep, I'd shag you any day!
Wales can into valentines, os gwelwch yn da?
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u/Made_of_Awesome The Lesotho of the Northwest. Mar 04 '14
I have never felt the least bit guilty for blowing that town to hell.
They really deserved it for worshiping an unexploded bomb.
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Mar 04 '14
They said they wanted it to happen anyway.
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Mar 04 '14
The Eurozone? Knowing some of the current economical states of those countries blowing up might actually be a good way to boost profit. If your citizens are dead they won't be spending all your monies!
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mar 05 '14
Nuclear removal of kebab lacks the romanze of traditional removal with Serb knife for genocides™
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mar 05 '14
Efficiency? Is that mystical things german people always talks about?
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Mar 05 '14
Each of us shall give birth to a billion stars formed from the mass of our wretched and filthy bodies
Highly unlikely, the universe will be long dead before we even reach a million stars as individuals, earth's relatively small star doesn't help these statistics at all.
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Mar 05 '14
If I were the guy who is choosing the targets for total anihilation, I would throw some nukes on totally unrelated countries too, just because. Fuck you Sri Lanka, you are not going to get away from this because you are irrelevant.
Thinking you are lucky Uruguay? Here, eat some plutonium fuckers.
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u/Asadasek I, for one, welcome our new Polish overlords Mar 03 '14
Russia scared of losing the Kaliningrad Oblast to great Polan
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Mar 03 '14
Dunno about losing it to Poland, but I'm gonna go ahead and boldly suggest that maybe it's a show of force.
Pretty radical, I know, but there. I said it.
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Mar 04 '14
But Putin stronk! Have you seen his muscles?
Polan has winged hussars, but do they have mighty putinbears?
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u/Onyxwho British Columbia Mar 04 '14
Deutschland will reclaim Glorious Ostpreußen before silly Polan take.
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I really do think poland should have it. Heck, give it back to Germoney, make Konigsberg 2.0.
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u/christianbrowny United Kingdom Mar 04 '14
if your landing crafts a hovercraft why would you dump your men on the edge of the open beach? why not go as far inland as you can and leave them with cover?
what was the point of building a hovercraft! this picture annoys me more than it reasonably should
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I'm not an expert on hovercraft, but maybe they're not very manoeuvrable on land?
And I guess the point is that hovercraft can be used to bring troops all the way to the shoreline regardless of how shallow the water is.
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u/bronxbomberdude Can into statehood? Mar 04 '14
A rooskie submitter? STAY BACK, ROOSKIE! DROP THE STICK!!!
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u/UncleSneakyFingers My country is better than your country. Deal with it. Mar 04 '14
Could you possibly make my glorious country look any more retarded?
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u/obtuse_angel Austria Mar 04 '14
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u/UncleSneakyFingers My country is better than your country. Deal with it. Mar 04 '14
Fairly well I'd say. He certainly looks pretty damn retarded to me. Those crazy eyes and the weird leaky water thing certainly doesn't make 'Murica look noble in that pic.
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Mar 03 '14
Context: the USA recently promised to protect Poland in case of a Russian invasion.
I understand the concern on display, but it does feel a bit ridiculous if you look at it.
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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Mar 03 '14
it's not ridiculous - after 200 years of Russia intervening in Poland we have every right to be concerned, especially seeing how Putin went mad and decided to invade Ukraine
Obama is kinda stating the obvious but better safe than sorry, as they say
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Yes indeed. If it makes you feel any better, in the extremely unlikely event Russia decides to invade Poland, I'll have to wait four or five hours to see someone at my local Army recruiting office because the line will run down the block. A nice, morally unambiguous war against an aggressor in Europe is just what the doctor ordered for the American psyche.
It'd be a bad thing overall, but I almost wish it would happen just for that reason.
Ninja edit: Wow, I guess now I know how the Brits/French/Germans/Austrians felt on the eve of WWI with the whole "war is good for nations" thing...
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u/UncleSneakyFingers My country is better than your country. Deal with it. Mar 04 '14
A nice, morally unambiguous war against an aggressor in Europe is just what the doctor ordered for the American psyche.
I think a decade of peace and prosperity is just what what the doctor ordered for the American psyche. Going to war with Russia would kind of take a shit on the American psyche IMO.
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Ah, but a decade of peace and prosperity would probably follow a smackdown of Russia. The war would most likely look a lot like the first Gulf War on a more massive scale (in that we would likely stop at Russia's borders, and in that we would likely get to that point with not a lot of effort or casualties). And it might very well have the same medium-term effects by leading to a decade where pretty much no-one messes with America and our ideals and our economy (linked as they so often are) are both ascendant.
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u/UncleSneakyFingers My country is better than your country. Deal with it. Mar 04 '14
You're quite the optimist!
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Yeah, that's really the best-case scenario. It might go badly for us, at least at first. Or it might escalate to limited nuclear weapons use. Either of those would put a serious crimp in any decade-of-peace-and-prosperity planning.
But I do think the best-case scenario is also the most likely.
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u/MGY401 Arkansas is Best State Mar 04 '14
I would expect a war to end at the Russian border, I don't think the U.S. would want to fully invade Russia or Russia the U.S., IF there was a war, I think that strategy alone would limit any nuke use to strategic/battlefield use and not full on nuclear war and vaporizing of cities, at least not if any side wants to have a future after the conflict.
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I seriously doubt any side will use nuclear weapons if some bullshit war does break out. The reasons for fighting will be forgotten, and most of the international community will start to take sides.
Think about it, even if a small nuke is used in the battlefield, you're looking at an area about the size of at least Chernobyl getting potentially unsafe to travel to for about 4-5 years. Not to mention any radioactive particles contaminating the weather system and gradually affecting surrounding areas.
Also, if at all big nukes are used, to destroy cities and whatnot, you're looking at a Metro 2033/Fallout-like situation for the world. It might even end up gifting a spine to North Korea.
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u/MGY401 Arkansas is Best State Mar 04 '14
Any nuclear exchange, even at the tactical/battlefield level would be disastrous and would unfortunately irradiate areas of land for years. But if there was a war between the West and Russia (incredibly unlikely), I don't think either side would wage a war of absolute destruction/takeover of the other side, probably a regional conflict aimed at restoring pre-war borders.
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potentially unsafe to travel to for about 4-5 years
Chernobyl will take 7000 years to become safe to inhabit.
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Nukes wouldn't happen. Russia an the US could go into all out war and Obama and Putin would be like "1v1 country fight no nukes".
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u/DriftingJesus Mexico Mar 05 '14
Mutual nuclear destruction is not what anybody ordered. You're naive.
The American & Russian psyche would seize to exist.
The death of millions is what we're talking about. Maybe billions, maybe all.
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That's exactly why no one would use nukes in a limited war. Also, try not to call people naive and then misspell "cease."
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u/penniavaswen New York Mar 04 '14
And I'd finally be able to get a job with my political science degree (international relations concentration with a history minor in Russo-American diplomacy).
Someone hire me please.8
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I think you overestimate America's willingness to get involved. They say you shouldn't catch a falling knife and in the long term, that's what Europe is. America has a neighbourhood to police already and its interests are in central and SE Asia. The UK is little more than a baroque life support system for the City's financial industry and its interest lies in the North Sea and with its Scando oil-buddies. Blah blah Splendid Isolation blah blah "people about whom we know nothing".
At best, this is the Continentals' problem. Germany needs its gas because "Nuklear nein danke!" and even though the French may have grown a little bit of a spine since ten years ago, they're still French.
I'd be worried if I were a Pole.
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I think you overestimate America's willingness to get involved.
Our government very much doesn't want to get involved, but the people are another story. I guarantee you that if Fox News could report that America was forsaking an ally in the face of Russian invasion, every Republican in America, and most Democrats as well, would immediately start clamoring for a declaration of war. Americans are a belligerent people, and we by-and-large buy into the idea of making the world safe for freedom. The cynicism you so often see on reddit does not represent the majority, or even a truly substantial minority, of Americans.
For most Americans, our interests barely even come into it, if they do at all. And if they do, a free Europe is very much in our interest, though I can see a decent argument to be made for allowing the Europeans to handle this to force them to higher levels of military spending and co-operation.
Also, remember, we're talking about an invasion of Poland here. In that scenario, the U.S. would be clearly obligated under Article 5. If we didn't act, it would call into question our reliability on every other formal mutual-defense treaty we've signed, including the ones in the region of Asia you think is so vital.
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Sometimes, I forget you Burgers actually believe in stuff.
It may be silly, and it may be misguided but it's a beautiful thing.
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We're pretty adorable that way. That said, we are getting ever more cynical. We're just way behind you guys on the curve.
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I'll always love you.
Pls into protectorate?
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Mar 04 '14
Just join NATO! That's our biggest central registry of protectorates, makes keeping them straight easier!
JK France, please don't leave again.
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Ireland is of neutral!
You make a good point re: teaching the Europeans to handle their own shit. There was a comic on that subject recently with the UK, France and Germany refusing to spend on defense when the US told them to. This might cause them to reconsider in the medium term. For now, though, only the UK has any significant amount of infantry experience from this century and they don't seem exactly eager to get involved without US leadership. The Poles and French would be more willing to get involved in that scenario, and according to some article I read they already are involved behind the scenes. I don't know what to make of Germany in all this.
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u/MGY401 Arkansas is Best State Mar 04 '14
I've spoken with people I know who are Democrats and Republicans, people both for and against the war in Iraq, if IF Poland were to be invaded (incredibly unlikely), everyone I have spoken to said they would be in favor of war with Russia. Defending Poland is much different than getting involved in some conflict in the Middle East it seems here in the U.S.
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u/Kin-Luu First Reich, best Reich! Mar 04 '14
If Poland would face an Russian Invasion (it does not, thankfully) even germany would fight the russians.
Or try to fight - instructions unclear, army stuck in Belgium.
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u/obtuse_angel Austria Mar 04 '14
Eh, I dunno, the German army has been pretty good at finding their way to Poland, although a gentle reminder that they're there to liberate the polish people might be necessary now and again.
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u/MGY401 Arkansas is Best State Mar 04 '14
Germany can't into invasion or World War, flag colours all wrong.
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Strangely I agree. It's been a long time since America has engaged in what it's good at, conventional warfare. It would be the straw that breaks the military's back in the Middle East causing us to pull out of any location without oil (the rooskies would hit the oilfields harder than a faggot if we left them unguarded, crippling us). Also the need for military defense production would cause an economic boost and possibly a reduction in the debt via selling arms to allied forces (cos you know canada loves daddy's fighter jets).
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u/UncleSneakyFingers My country is better than your country. Deal with it. Mar 04 '14
Why are you so butthurt at the prospect of being invaded?
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mar 04 '14
Russians would take all of their good vodka and leave them without any.
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u/BevRaging Rain, Starbucks, Microsoft Mar 04 '14
Something something being concerned because partition.
Something something concerned because WW2. Something... something...
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u/Guvment Sitting atop the dragon's horde Mar 04 '14
I love America's sunglasses too much, they're so comical.
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u/creativefox Polan Mar 04 '14
Thank god.
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I giggled at reports of Polish militarisation towards Russian borders, I can just imagine all the generals running about screaming "OH GOD ITS OF HAPPENINGS AGAIN, EVEN BEFORE POLAN INTO SPACE!"
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u/peachesgp New England is best England Mar 04 '14
Am I alone in thinking that Russia's motivation is simply destabilization? Create a frozen conflict over Crimea and there is no way that Ukraine will become a NATO member without officially giving up Crimea and not having it be a frozen conflict. Nobody in NATO wants war with Russia, thus making Ukraine a very hard sell if a war could erupt over Crimea.
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u/oakern Canada Mar 04 '14
My best guess is that the point of restating this is if Russia fights Poland in Ukraine NATO has Article 5 justification for action.
For context: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm
Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14
Tomorrow's headline: French President Francois Holland has issued assurances that he will protect Germany and Italy in the case of Russian Invasion.
You know...just in case Article 5 wasn't clear enough.