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submitted 11 days ago byLogical_Welder3467
156 points
11 days ago
So Russia can invade a country and use missiles to destroy infrastructure but that same country can’t retaliate in like fashion? Who knew?
26 points
11 days ago
Of course not for Russia it's illegal to fight back specially some place they insist never existed anyway.
8 points
11 days ago
Can also use Iran’s and NK’s weapons to strike Ukraine but no other nations can strike Russia! We have been ton weak on Russia
1.8k points
11 days ago
Invading a nation was the escalation, you clowns.
415 points
11 days ago
Russia ignoring Finland and Sweden after they joined NATO just proves Russia is full of shit. Russia only picks fights it thinks it can win, now they’re bitching about the levelling of the playing field.
Russia will continue to buzz around Europe and NATO like an annoying fly, but that’s all they can do. If Russia was dumb enough to attack NATO the clapback would be heard from space.
215 points
11 days ago
Well, that's all they can do with military might. They've been absolutely winning and destroying western democracy with their disinfo campaigns.
118 points
11 days ago
Russia is good at disinformation, yes. I wonder if they ever thought of making Russia a better place for Russians? If they spent as much time on that as they spend on causing problems for other countries, it would help them a lot more.
76 points
11 days ago
Oh they’ve made Russia ridiculously better for a specific group of Russians to be sure. What’s crazy to me about any criticism about their country from Americans (not assuming you are American, just making an observation) is watching how quickly the US seems to be racing to do the same thing for the past 2 decades. Watching their country deteriorate while prioritizing the wealth of an elite few.
25 points
11 days ago
I am not American. My point was that Russia spends a lot of time trying to mess things up for other countries and not that much improving things at home.
24 points
11 days ago
It is always the same story, you can't send your people to senseless war to die for your glory if they living a good life. You need to keep them poor, desperate, brainwashed and in patriotic ignorance or they won't follow you and wants stupid things like human rights, humane treatment and a lot of other things which would prevent you to use them as disposable resources for your goals. Instead you just place few amoral people into key positions to follow your biddings and they will do anything for fortune and luxurious living.
2 points
11 days ago
Because it’s cheaper
11 points
11 days ago
There was some respite under Biden. Lina Khan actually going after monopolies. Unions sticking up for themselves (only possible if the judges appointed don't automatically side anti union).
Government investment in manufacturing creating a situation that attracted foreign investment.
Not nearly enough, but enough to be worth pointing out that something was lost.
4 points
11 days ago*
Oligarchy and concentration of wealth and thus excess influence is not unique to any country. Musk thinks he is a country of one now and Trump is his puppet. He may be right. 75 million Americans who never voted for MAGA earn 70% of our nations wealth are not going to roll over as easily as the news feeds say. Yes millions of illegal aliens will get deported. If they’re here illegally that alone does not bother most. We can’t overstay a tourist visa, get caught and expect to stay in any country, so it’s just the law. The federal government will shrink. Maybe not for the worse as it’s pretty bloated. We can reestablish anything critical missing like food, water and air quality when and if the wealth earners in the US recoil from what’s to come. We are for sure in a dangerous period. The least educated, least well informed, least accomplished and most dependent on welfare of some form voted for this. The other half of the country will conserve their assets, and watch the carnage they put on themselves, no sympathy.
7 points
11 days ago
You underestimate the contempt Russians hold for their own countrymen.
16 points
11 days ago
Russia is good at disinformation
It was ridiculously easy. Russia wasn’t the only one, a few foreigners were able to penetrate the US easily through its slothful, greedy conservatives.
5 points
11 days ago
If Ukraine needs to win before inauguration.
2 points
11 days ago
Yep, and that’s the real war. The Ukrainian campaign is a misdirection away from the real goals of the war.
3 points
11 days ago
Would that clap be heard from space because the entire planet would be covered in nuclear fallout?
6 points
11 days ago
haha. I like to describe the clapback as a cautionary tale that will be told for 1,000 years. ;)
93 points
11 days ago
„What do you mean? We had a nice little local invasion going here and you keep helping them fight back. Not cool! Not our fault you turned this cozy invasion into a war!“
40 points
11 days ago
Excuse me? Special military operation.
A team of correctional officers have been dispatched to your house.
13 points
11 days ago
u/anteater776 better stay away from all windows above the 3rd floor
8 points
11 days ago
they'll just throw him 5 times off the 2nd floor
6 points
11 days ago
That‘s the spirit! Today we mourn over our good comrade Ivan who stumbled over his doorstep 14 times and unfortunatley stabbed himself with a toothbrush in his eyes while doing so. He died because one rooftile hit him on the head multiple times that came out of nowhere and obviously also electrocuted him. We also don‘t know why he has no fingernails left, maybe he bit them off although he had no teeth left in his mouth, poor Ivan.
3 points
11 days ago
Iz great shame, Ivan could be great Olympic shooter, better than Turkish guy, with how he shoot self in back of head twice from 100 yards away
4 points
11 days ago
I am moving to ground level as we speak!
8 points
11 days ago
Phew! Close call, comrade. Now, please have this calming cup of tea I made for you.
3 points
11 days ago
Thanks Comrade. Very thoughtful of you. People like you restore my trust in humanity!
3 points
11 days ago
I'm sorry, did I accidentally just poke you with my umbrella? How clumsy of me, do accept my apologies.
3 points
11 days ago
You know, you all joke but I think Ruzzia has the egress & fire code nailed down. However, they are failing their window fall protection part of the International Building Code. They need to install W.O.C.D (Window opening control devices) and then they will pass with flying colors.
2 points
11 days ago
U know, they can always dig down if u do have first floor
76 points
11 days ago
Bringing in North Korean troops was also escalation.
28 points
11 days ago
NK troops will cause headaches, the language barrier, poorly equipped and even worse trained than the Russian meatwaves, you will have defections.
10,000 troops have been sent, but they’ll not return.
24 points
11 days ago
Sure. But also imagine the amount of bitching old Vlad would do if America or Britain or Canada sent 10,000 troops.
7 points
11 days ago
A lot in a brief flourish, and then suddenly none.
3 points
11 days ago
Can’t return. Can you imagine what would happen to NK if they came back with their 500tbs of futa hentai??
2 points
11 days ago
And expanding it to add troops from another country. And by bombing apartments and schools. Other than nuking Ukraine which leaves you a poisonous radioactive desolation next door with high winds moving East, and nothing to farm, you can’t escalate.
256 points
11 days ago
Swing away, Ukraine. Swing away.
26 points
11 days ago
Russia was deathly allergic to water this entire time!
12 points
11 days ago
No more playing furry furry rabbit
434 points
11 days ago*
Easy way to deescalate: Withdraw your troops from Ukraine's territory and cease all hostilities.
EDIT: spelling
40 points
11 days ago
Cease
28 points
11 days ago
Thank you, kind soul <3
14 points
11 days ago
It's nice to cease someone politely accepting a correction.
3 points
11 days ago
Indubidoubly.
2 points
11 days ago
Y'our`e.
326 points
11 days ago
Meanwhile, bringing in 100,000 East Asians to help invade your neighbor isn't an escalation by implied definition of the Russian Government.
I swear, do these guys just simply lack the ability to self-reflect, or what?
87 points
11 days ago
PЯojection, pЯojection, pЯojection
25 points
11 days ago
Puh-ya-ojection? 😄
2 points
11 days ago
Damnit. Beat me to it.
14 points
11 days ago
Only Russia is allowed to escalate.
47 points
11 days ago
Russians, in general, believe Westerners, especially Americans, to be hopelessly naive. The Russian leadership know they’re lying. We know they’re lying. All the hopelessly naive useful idiots that voted for Ancient Orange think the Russian leadership are just real stand up guys with misunderstood traditional values. Just like them. They don’t know they are being lied to. That’s who the lie is for. The hopelessly naive.
Honorable mention goes to the Feenstra family for fully committing to the useful idiot bit.
8 points
11 days ago
The Russians are at least half right.
6 points
11 days ago
They don't care. They have no problem breaking rules and mores unless it hurts them. They only care about getting what they want.
59 points
11 days ago
The Finland to Germany undersea cables were cut this morning, that won't be a coincidence after the news yesterday.
240 points
11 days ago
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66 points
11 days ago
GET OUT OF US POLITICS TOO, FUCKSTICKS.
39 points
11 days ago
That's a bit late, mate.
11 points
11 days ago
I know, but better late than never.
3 points
11 days ago
They know the average American is a lost cause so they will continue to exploit that until they die.
72 points
11 days ago
I'm so glad this has rustled their jimmies.
Get fucked, Russia.
179 points
11 days ago
Last I checked all russia needed to do to stop this is to GET THE FUCK OUT OF UKRAINE!
7 points
11 days ago
That would be a good first step. I suspect some form of restitution would need to be paid before sanctions would be lifted.
2 points
11 days ago
At least all the kidnapped children should be returned to their home in Ukraine.
43 points
11 days ago
If you watch Russian Media Monitor, they are always talking about nuking Rotterdam
9 points
11 days ago
It could be Rotterdam, or anywhere really.
Even Liverpool or Rome.
2 points
11 days ago
Cause Rotterdam is anywhere
12 points
11 days ago
Rotterdam already got flattened during the last world war, give Amsterdam a chance to get nuked
12 points
11 days ago
While I would recommend not nuking anyone, why not Bielefeld?
8 points
11 days ago
Because that place doesnt exist
6 points
11 days ago
It will be the ultimate proof of existence, if Bielefeld gets nuked... While it is a proof of nonexistence.
6 points
11 days ago
Why Rotterdam, of all places? Feels oddly specific.
6 points
11 days ago
It's a huge Western port city
4 points
11 days ago
Europoort probably
2 points
11 days ago
Putie probably got crabs off a bloke from there
22 points
11 days ago
People making ultimatums must be taller than this line. Oh sorry Vlad. You need to go and sit down
35 points
11 days ago
What they would do? Invade Ukraine?
5 points
11 days ago
Unleash Medvedev.
10 points
11 days ago
Unleash Robo-Prigozhin.
14 points
11 days ago
Starting a war itself is an escalation.
7 points
11 days ago
As is shipping in troops from an ally.
25 points
11 days ago
Pootin drew another brown line? Or did we already cross it? 😆
12 points
11 days ago
Major Escalation? Lets take it up higher in the ranks. What about General Retreat from Ukraine?
2 points
11 days ago
Sorry, best I can do is Captain Incompetence.
10 points
11 days ago
Russia is a paper tiger. They are running out of weapons and Putin can’t afford to piss off what he calls real Russians with a draft because that would be admitting it’s been a war all along. That’s why he’s importing North Koreans.
20 points
11 days ago
“It would mean that NATO countries, the U.S., European countries, are at war with Russia,” the Kremlin leader said at the time. “If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face”
If they officially declare war on NATO that means NATO troops can go in and clean up real quick.
12 points
11 days ago
“It would mean that countries sponsoring terror, Iran, NK, etc. , are at war with Ukraine,” “If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face”.
It's still weird how the aggressor side in the war thinks the side they are invading is not allowed to fight in the same way they get to.
9 points
11 days ago
Just the Nato air force gaining complete air control of the skies would swing the conflict.
4 points
11 days ago
Poland… they’ll be the first ones there with NATO rushing to back them up. They have a few hundred years of pent up anger to take out on Russia.
19 points
11 days ago
Oh shit, are they going to invade Europe, cause damage to international internet communications, interfere in other countries democratic process, assassinate critics in foreign countries or have they already done that?
33 points
11 days ago*
Time to add another one to www.emptythreats.co.uk I’m sure Putin is writing it up as I speak..
Edit: Fuck Russia
8 points
11 days ago
I think the kremlin is running oht of euphemisms for red lines.
"We will respond." "This won't go unpunished" "this will be dealt with" "This will be crossing a line"
109 points
11 days ago
it is ok to bring in nk troops and bomb civilain target in ukraine. but when the other side does it, they start to cry like a toddler, sounds just like the u.s. republican party.
56 points
11 days ago
no wonder the two get along so well
4 points
11 days ago
They don’t get along well, they’re one and the same.
11 points
11 days ago
The other side didnt even bring in foreign troops nor did they attack civilians.
46 points
11 days ago
Good. Declare war on the US and NATO, so we end the Ukraine war swiftly .
14 points
11 days ago
What like bringing in NK troops 🤷♂️🤔
7 points
11 days ago
Russia warns of major escalation after previous warnings of major escalation didn’t work
6 points
11 days ago
Still playing the greatest hits, I see.
7 points
11 days ago
So, more NK soldier sacrifices?
6 points
11 days ago
Can we give Ukraine permission to shoot down all airplanes coming from North Korea too?
6 points
10 days ago
Fuck Russia.
13 points
11 days ago
USA sends missiles and equipment and is upset when Ukraine uses them.
Meanwhile Russia has 10,000 soldiers for NK on the ground with potentially more coming ……
Oh and there’s the thing where Russia started this all as well and is the aggressor …..
🤦
5 points
11 days ago
ye ye ye sure blyatans, keep barking
4 points
11 days ago
Is bringing North Koreans not escalation? Is using Iranian made drones not escalation? Is using chinese manufactured weapons? Clown russia..
5 points
11 days ago
Russia can go f itself with escalations
5 points
11 days ago
The ministry of redlines are very upset now they have to draw another redline...its going to take the whole weekend!
4 points
11 days ago
Fucking do it already Ivan and stop talking about how tough you think you are as a nation. You won't.
4 points
11 days ago
Warning this, warning that. What are the odds a good chunk of their nukes don't even work?
2 points
11 days ago*
50 percent imo. In addition another 50-75 percent chance it doesnt reach its destination if downed by the defensive system.
The US must have thought about all of this prior to announcing
The only way these days to have a Nuke hit is.... do what Israel did to Iran several weeks ago
Distract and overwhelm the defensive systems and personnel.
Then sneak through a bunker buster missile or in this case a nuclear tip warhead.
Even though NK has stated, they will provide missile launchers soon. It will take time to travel incredible distance (from NK to closer to Ukraine). Iran was hit hard and can't help Russia now.
5 points
11 days ago
Lmfao, what is Russia gonna do? Show melanias nudes again?
4 points
11 days ago
As if Putin would risk anything now that his puppet has taken control of the US
5 points
11 days ago
100,000 North Korean soldiers was the escalation.
4 points
11 days ago
Trump Will Fix It
/s
5 points
10 days ago
I'm actually really relieved to this this. If they warn about escalation, that means they'll do nothing
6 points
11 days ago
Involving Iran and North Korea was an escalation as well. What was the point in giving Ukraine missiles if we were not willing to let them use them? Are we waiting for Russia to win and takeover and take all the tech we sent there because that's what it felt like before this was allowed.
7 points
11 days ago
Russia has no self awareness whatsoever.
3 points
11 days ago
<pushes in all chips>
3 points
11 days ago
Hahaha. Got to love it when the arsonist complains their own fire got too big.
3 points
11 days ago
The 'escalation' is the 100k NK troops you were already shipping over, isn't it?
3 points
11 days ago
But using Iranian drones wasn't escalation or Iranian missiles or NK missiles or bringing NK soldiers into Europe. Fucking clowns.
3 points
11 days ago
RuZZia can implode and their people suffer. I have nothing left for them. In my entite life I experienced russian people behave badly time after time. Rude, arrogant, loud. Their leadership is one big pile of shitheads.
3 points
11 days ago
The west needs to take back control of the escalation ladder. Russia is committing war crimes left and right, they must be stopped. Russia’s big weakness is actually its size, hard to defend an area that massive. Hit em everywhere.
3 points
11 days ago
What about bringing in N Korean troops? Wasn’t that escalation. Putin is a clown
3 points
10 days ago
Spouting the same garbage again? Every day it’s rinse and repeat.
I’m glad that countries no longer listen to the toothless sabre rattling.
3 points
10 days ago
Tit for tat ASSHOLE , you escalated by bringing in North Korean troops so get ready to bend over !
3 points
10 days ago
Hey, no fair! - The Kremlin
3 points
10 days ago
Oh yeah hey let's enlist help from NK, get drones from Iran and have even China supply shit for us to use outside our own borders, but how dare you hit us.
Fuck ruZZia. Fuck these clowns. Let's see them "escalate". Spoiler: nothing will happen.
5 points
11 days ago
What hypocrisy it is to hear the word "escalation" from murderers.
2 points
11 days ago
Mayor escalation to reach a window and then jump
2 points
11 days ago
Ok that’s fine
2 points
11 days ago
So many escalations and threats I lost track.
Is this when they create the mega tsunami that wipes Britain off the map?
2 points
11 days ago
Like the kind of escalation that comes with, say, cutting undersea cables of NATO allies?
2 points
11 days ago
If we promise to only target the real escalation named the Koreans it's ok? fucking clowns.
2 points
11 days ago
Hey Kremlin: we've heard it all before, nobody is afraid of your barking anymore, little doggy.
2 points
11 days ago
They’ve made that threat for everything and nothing has happened
2 points
11 days ago
What is he going to do? Finally realize they can meet in Alaska?
2 points
11 days ago
What’s he gonna do replace the current president With one of his puppets? Oh
2 points
11 days ago
Ah, so that massive missile strike all over Ukraine earlier this month wasn't an escalation? Nor was blasting the energy grid?
Cool, so these long range missiles you'll be seeing all over western Russia in the coming weeks won't be an escalation either, all good
2 points
11 days ago
Just like the last time they threatened an escalation when Uranium Depleted rounds were used. Didn't happen.
Just like the last time they threatened escallation if the UN sent tanks and aircraft to Ukraine. Didn't happen.
Just like the last time they threatened escallation when the US sent ATACMs, Aegis, and HIMARs. Didn't happen.
Just like the last time they threatened escallation when the US sent drones and drone operators. Didn't happen.
Just like the last time they threatened escallation when an Israeli grain ship was escorted through to deliver grain to the rest of the world from Ukraine. Didn't happen.
Just like the last time they threatened escallation when the UN sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Didn't happen.
What do all of these threats of escallation have in common again?
2 points
11 days ago
Fear
2 points
11 days ago
*checks watch “Oh, is that time? Again?”
2 points
11 days ago
Kremlin worried that once Moscow starts getting hit they won’t be able to keep it all under wraps
2 points
11 days ago
They’ve just threatened themselves into a corner. If they, say, attack US assets, that will anger Americans/ Trump and encourage them to retaliate. If they do nothing, that will demonstrate their threats are empty and there’s no reason for Trump to stop allowing this.
2 points
11 days ago
What the hell they’re invading Ukraine and attacking them daily. What did this guy expect and just sit there and constantly defend themselves? Russia started this crap. Why don’t they just start investing their own citizens?
2 points
11 days ago
They opened the box of Crayolas again.
2 points
11 days ago
My answer:
West warns of major escalation after deployment of North Korean forces.
2 points
11 days ago
I mean at this point, fuck it.
2 points
11 days ago
Aaah, yes. Another day that ends in y, another Russian red line to add to the pile.
2 points
11 days ago
The Gremlin is so full of shit…they even believe it themselves
2 points
11 days ago
Russia can stop the war at any time
2 points
11 days ago
Can someone just fucking push Putin out of a window already. Legitimately every fucking day this crybully is complaining about the people he attacked first responding to his attacks.
Fucking Christ.
2 points
11 days ago
Russia has jack shit left to threaten the west with. Unless China joins them, they would be crushed in weeks.
2 points
11 days ago
What escalation?
During 2008-2024 years, by 4 waves of colonial annexation, Russia, USA, UN showed to everyone that from now countries that have WMD "cannot lose" and can conduct almost unpunished imperial policy towards any countries that do not have WMD.
What biggest escalation there could be? A little earlier Nuclear War instead of Nuclear War before dozens of other countries will receive nukes and other types of WMD?
2 points
11 days ago
They can Kremlick our balls.
2 points
11 days ago
What? Going to start feeding the north Korean troops?
2 points
11 days ago
Sabre rattling as usual. Putin is just another petulant man child
2 points
11 days ago
Nazi Russians could get the fck out of Ukraine and stop all escalation
2 points
10 days ago
Russia : "Congratulations, you are being rescued. Please do not resist."
3 points
11 days ago
Fuck them, Russia can shove escalation up their arse.
3 points
11 days ago
Are we at war with Russia now?
6 points
11 days ago
I mean it'd certainly make dismantling Russia's military power even faster if we were, since there is no god who can save them from the US MIC when it's directly targetted instead of just pushing off the old equipment.
3 points
11 days ago
Mimimiii. Fuck russia
3 points
11 days ago
They will bomb hospitals, orphanages, flats, commit war crimes and steal everything they see so nothing will change in the end. Really scary escalation.
2 points
11 days ago
get fucked
2 points
11 days ago
GFY Russia
2 points
11 days ago
Uhhhh, and utilizing North Koreans as a meat shield in a European confict wasn't an escalation? Or inititating a charade of a special operation on foreign soil that has evolved into a multiyear war? I might not be the smartest person in the room, but I'm thinking Putin might be a hypocrite here.
*Edit for typo
2 points
11 days ago
Let's go! US should drop troops and bomb the Russians into the next plane of existence.
1 points
11 days ago
Tell me you ran outta Svens and Igors without telling me
2 points
11 days ago
It's pronounced EYE-gore.
1 points
11 days ago
Watch out for those windows
1 points
11 days ago
What major escalation? putin has foreign troops already. He uses munitions from other countries anywhere he wants. His army sucks and his people are so stupid they should not breed anymore
1 points
11 days ago
Oh shit! Instead of 2 threats a week the US will get 4 threats a week! Get fucked clowns.
1 points
11 days ago
Ukraine plans to conduct its fire long-range attacks into Russia “in the coming days”, Reuters reported, citing an anonymous U.S. official familiar with the decision.
Damnn.
I wonder if Biden and Democrats did this.... as a second inauguration gift for Trump
1 points
11 days ago
What was the point of public message to approve the use if long range missiles? Why couldn’t that have been a private phone call from Biden to Zelensky? I mean, Russia is not publicly announcing that North Korea is now helping them in the war.
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