• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Define “ready”, Martin Jaeger. They’re second best in Ukraine, so it can’t be in terms of capacity to win.

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      If you disregard ability to win, any one of us is technically ready to attack Europe.

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        10 hours ago

        When they are under the Phutatorius Law, I will demand tributes of charcuterie, stinky cheese and Belgian monk beer. Also some good doctors and personal trainers to keep me from becoming too much of a lard-ass while enjoying the spoils.

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          You’d have a better chance than most armies, because they might actually let you in like that.

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      They still have their usual ‘wunderwaffle’ to roll out - Waves of Humans and zero care for human lives.

      Russia is as dangerous now as Japan was in WW2.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.

        Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.

        This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.

        Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.

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          Also, their foreign trade is going down the shitter because their ability to export fossil fuels has been heavily curtailed by Ukraine.

        • Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.

          Oh hell yeah. I know where I’m going for breakfast in the morning.