Blowing up the Brits is a nice olive branch, but I think we’ll need more commitment if we want a lasting peace deal
As a Brit, I approve of this message.
Let’s keep escalating until WW3 breaks out…yeah!
Well “that’ll fix the economy”
Just keep rattlin’ that sabre, buddy.
Hitting London with a ballistic missile would bring the rents down. Maybe this is a good thing.
As a bonus, London is no more
Well it would likely put them up, seeing as it would remove supply but, if you know Londoners you’ll know it won’t do a damn thing about demand.
At least they have good public transportation. But yeah, anyone making less than £100,000 a year, good luck finding anywhere with a train commute of under an hour.
We moved into a home county. I grew up in London, but it’s just too expensive. We could have gotten a place there, but it would not be a good one, not be in a good area and likely be beyond our personal budget (the banks would give us the money, we wouldn’t accept it).
Not regretting it at all really.
Please do it Putin. WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse, Poland’s
chompingchamping at the bit for the excuse and we really want to see how long it takes them to rush Moscow.Edit: damn it Lemmy, I’m an engineer not a dictionary.
WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse
Are you ready to enlist?
Sure, with my skillset I’ll be designing and building drones by the 1000s. If that is what is required to stop a tyrant from threatening Europe hand me a long brown overcoat, hat, cigarette, and FRSKY radio transmitter!
So you’ve signed up by tomorrow then right? Expect you back in here with proof or you could stfu.
Why? Have I managed to miss the triggering of Article 5, the emergency NATO meetings, the declaration of war, and the conscription order?
Blimey, I really overslept.
How very brave of you.
Which is exactly why he’s not going to, and everyone knows it. This is to look strong for his own domestic audience.
The threat that’s actually for us is the one about arming it’s own anti-Western proxies, and it did indeed make us think twice for a few months.
Pushes glasses in It’s actually “champing.”
Didn’t know this, thanks!
How do horses “champ” at their bit?
Exuberantly, with a shade of impetuousness
Champ is the older spelling of chomp. They mean the same thing. At some point a shift in pronunciation occurred and spelling has reflected that, but the older version has been preserved in the phrase “champ at the bit”
Oh so fan0m was being a pedantic arse.
I may be wrong but I think it may be more pedantic to argue that the incorrect pronunciation of a common phrase should be accepted due to pedantry is more pedantic?
/pedantry
Language evolves.
Skibidi chomp
Chomping at the skibidi?
fr fr no chomp
Lukashenko: why are there troops with wings sprayed on their vehicles massing near my border?
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Poland: Just a regular training, nothing to worry about
Boys on the internet want it, but they won’t join in
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48749-why-wont-britons-serve-in-the-armed-forces-if-called
Fighting for Ukraine against the head oligarch of Russia? Yes.
Fighting for oil interests of oligarchs in Londongrad? No.
Reminder that World War 2 had a gradual unfolding of declarations of war across several months or longer, depending on how you want to fuck that pig. I think we’re already in the onset of WWIII, in some sense.
The thing is, if NATO is worth anything at all. Hitting a NATO country would bring a lot of declarations in a very short order. It would get very WW3, very quickly.
Same way you go bankrupt; slowly, and then all at once.
That’s assuming Europe wasn’t economically stretched already, and America didn’t have an incoming president who wasn’t more interested in fellating Putin.
and America didn’t have an incoming president who wasn’t more interested in fellating Putin.
That is a bit of a wildcard, isn’t it.
Even if there’s financial concerns in Europe. We DO have reasonably strong airforces, modern weaponry and several nuclear enabled countries. I think it would be a big risk to take in their current position.
My main concern is Trump tries to coerce Europe to leave Ukraine to fight alone. It all depends on how much in Putin’s pocket he is.
He’s so far in Putin’s pocket that he’s snuggling up to his nutsack.
I’m not sure we’re on a path to WWIII if it’s Russia vs everyone else. If China decides to get involved then maybe but I don’t see any evidence they’re willing to throw in with Putin, same with Iran.
There’s a 100% chance that Trump will send troops to Iran in the next year.
No there’s not. Where are you getting this absolute certainty from?
Trump’s relationship with Netanyahu and the relationship between Israel and Iran.
That doesn’t necessarily equate to there being a 100% certainty of boots on the ground in Iran though, does it?
The Israeli government pushed for “judicial reform” last year prior to the war with Palestine. People were saying that they were doing it in order to go into Palestine and then the big attack by Hamas happened and gave them an excuse. Tensions with Iran and Israel have escalated when Israel assassinated a Hamas leader in Iran over the summer and Iran responded with missile attacks on Israel. I believe that after Trump takes office there will be something that happens that will be “the last straw.” Maybe it will be “WMDs”, hiding Hamas leaders, or some big attack by Iran. It’s going to happen.
I’m still not sure why you’re so certain about this. You’re speculating that something might happen and yet you said that there’s a “100%” chance of US boots on the ground in Iran.
As awful as Trump is, his first term wasn’t nearly as hawkish at that of other republican presidents.
Are we in the Spanish Civil War type pre-phase of WWII?
That’s terrifying because WW3 risks the use of nuclear weapons and every model of nuclear exchange that has been run always escalates to mutual assured destruction with billions dead and the end of civilization.
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Highly recommend it.
Civilization’s kinda shit anyway. We had a
goodrun.The real slippery slopes are graded much less steeply than you’d expect
This is “threatens the uk” :
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against what we say we believe to be military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”
The important unsaid part needs to be in there. Whether an opponent actually puts military installations inside civilian locations or not (generally a bad move), this gives war criminals carte blanche to bomb whatever they feel like.
Not sure it’s helpful to imagine words that were not said, but that still a warning not a threat.
Welcome to geopolitics. The whole world runs on unsaid statements and ulterior motives. Up is down and down is up.
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