• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    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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      10 hours ago

      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.