| ▲ | dozerly 2 hours ago |
| Take a guess, will Putin prioritize the safety of humans or his own pride? He’s literally waging a war that is based on his warped divine feeling of pride for Rus |
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| ▲ | GolfPopper 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Alternatively, that's just an excuse, and he's waging a war because the existential threat to his autocratic kleptocracy by even a modestly successful, somewhat democratic neighboring state with significant inter-country exchange of people and ideas. |
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| ▲ | bigmattystyles 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Worse yet, this is contained but Putin will use it to argue against foreign actors weakening him further because 'think of the consequences`. I hate how paranoid this timeline has made me. |
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| ▲ | mikrl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I hate how paranoid this timeline has made me Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab? That’s keeping me up. Threaten nukes and deploy the plague to show you aren’t kidding. There was a news story yesterday about the Ukrainian government using drones to airlift medicine to occupied territories that have been cut off from pharmaceutical supply chains (the occupation forces said they would figure it out, but didn’t) | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab? There's a reason the US and Soviets were largely willing to get rid of the stuff - it's fairly useless geopolitically, because you mostly can't target it. | | |
| ▲ | mikrl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Your reassurance relies on strategic calculus of the 20th century, arrived at by a much less cynical leadership, in both cases. It can definitely be targeted: behind enemy lines, or in the occupied territory with selective access to antibiotics. Population migration can be enforced coercively too. This is the same regime pulling stunts like this [0] and threatening nuclear war, absolutely would not be surprised. [0] https://www.occrp.org/en/news/putins-chef-sends-bloody-sledg... | |
| ▲ | beedeebeedee 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s only if you care about nation states. | | |
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| ▲ | volkk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | you should consume less internet -- will make you feel a bit better |
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