People in the west should stop this madness …hek whom am I kidding ,they won’t .

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        The Sarmat missile was being developed for a while now, and this is when they were scheduled to be deployed. Their deployment isn’t a reaction to anything immediate happening with the war in Ukraine or the conflict between the west and Russia. The tweet appears to make it look like this is Russia is escalating in the context of the current proxy war.

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          but then we don’t have much treaties left to prevent a nuke war. I mean this is important what is happening in Ukraine and in Russia. There is a fire today in St.Petersburg , mostly like a drone attack. This can escalate quickly into something else.

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            Yeah, the fact that US decided to dismantle all the treaties with Russia is very concerning. In fact, this is one of the main causes for the war in Ukraine since Russia was very concerned about NATO being able to put nukes in Ukraine that could reach Moscow under 10 minutes. The danger of a nuclear holocaust has never been higher than it is now. There is an absolutely insane administration running the US and there’s a communication breakdown the like of which we haven’t seen even during the height of the cold war. A catastrophic miscalculation by either side is a very real possibility.

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    If the world gets destroyed because of some European war, I hope that God is real because he’s gonna have to explain to me in the afterlife why didn’t he stop Yakub when he had the chance.

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        It’s the legendary creator of the “white race” according to the Nation of Islam, who did it through selective breeding and manipulation to create the most wicked and hateful people. It’s mostly used as a meme to dunk on crackers.

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        A figure in presudoscientific mythology of the “Nation of Islam” organisation. Which, despite the name, has little if anything at all to do with actual Islam.

        According to said mythology, white people were created artificially by a man named Yakub. For reasons. And this is why white people are inherently evil and have stolen everything ever from the black people.

        Some comrades here like to mention Yakub in conversations about European or USian stupidity. For reasons.

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    I live in the second largest port city in Europe at about 40km from the EU and NATO HQs. If shit hits the fan, I probably will be dead before I noticed.

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    If only the west would just let Russia take what it wants, there would be peace in our time.

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      and buddy who made the “west” the police of the world ? Did India , China , BRICS , Latam countries call you to defend Ukraine ?

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        Why would those countries need to call for anything, it’s Ukraine that got invaded, not them.

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      Yes literally, that’s all it would take.

      A single shifted border, which you can in turn brag about since the Russkies wouldve taken more without a hard fight. What would you rather instead - keep fighting them indefinitely as more warheads roll out and the frontline barely moves? Keep giving stern warnings hinting at war? Get more NATO states involved?

      Russia does not hold Kyiv. If a ceasefire is declared, they would hold the eastern territory they wanted all along, and the rest of Ukraine would be unobtainable anyway. You’re scared of losing basically half an oblast which already costs millions of dollars and hundreds of deaths a year to hold onto, and has an active separatist movement which cannot and will not cooperate with the Ukrainian government. All Donbass will bring you is more violence and diplomatic headaches. Holding it at all costs will either bring nuclear war, world war, or at the very least worse separatism.

      You insist on fighting until it’s “yours” (your chosen team’s in this sport) over the possibility of being spiritually “cucked” or something bc you made a minor compromise. Fuck that. That’s the whole of human history in a nutshell, and you’ve just now started trying to cheat it using guided bombs and computers. You think you’ll beat the turning of fate because the 21st century has to be “clean,” which youve already made forfeit. You have no honor and none should be gifted to you. Go enlist so you have something in life to talk about.

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    Russian dictator: constantly makes nuclear threats

    Tankies: Why would the west do this?

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      There’re two things I would like to point here to show u how stupid u liberals are.

      First: you guys are so concerned about being on the moral high ground that u just can’t be pragmatic. You would easily start a nuclear war and feel good about it because the other side has a government u don’t agree with.

      Second: you guys point fingers to Russia but would be the first to agree with nuking Iraq or another country occupied by the US the moment any of them did as much as shot a couple of American civilians in American ground, let alone drone attacks…

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        Seriously these western liberals are out of their minds , they live in a parallel reality .

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          It really scares me that western propaganda is so powerful they are willing to let us all die as long as they feel they are on the “right” side…

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            its not just propaganda , its simply the arrogance with ignorance . Western libs feel good when US invades and destroys other governments , genocides the people but Russia can’t talk about their own security issues . Its simply Putin this or Putin that. Putin has always higher popularity than these nutjobs who are ruling the west and Navalny is the not the opposition of Putin.

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      Putin is no more of a dictator than any other western head of state has ever been, they are all beholden to bourgeois material interests.

      You people are so fuckin dense.

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        Dumb take. Putin holds far more power as an individual within his country than any western head of state does - they are tools of the capitalist class more than anything else. Yes, neither Putin nor Western leaders care about working class people, but that doesn’t make them identical.

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          Putin holds far more power as an individual within his country than any western head of state does

          This is the dumbest thing I have ever read.

          they are tools of the capitalist class more than anything else. Yes, neither Putin nor Western leaders care about working class people, but that doesn’t make them identical…

          Yes it does lol. My dude you are so close…

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            Why? The Western political system is more resilient and powerful, but that means that the individual people who are part of that system (including the heads of state) have less power over that system they can exert by themselves.

            Is the Western capitalist class more powerful? Yes. Are the political systems that function for their benefit more powerful? Also yes. But are the individuals who temporarily serve as heads of state more powerful within that system? Resoundingly no.

            And yeah, the relationship between the Russian capital class and that of the Western capital class and the respective workers under their thumb is identical, but that doesn’t mean that the relationship they have with the political leaders is identical. In the West politicians are arguably more like well paid employees of the capitalists, while in Putin’s case there’s a more equal footing.

            Does that make a difference to the people at the bottom? No. Does it make those situations identical? Also no.

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              The POTUS can launch nuclear weapons without any briefing or coordination with the rest of the government. It is his sole power, not even the legislative congress can override him.

              The Russian head of state must consult with their top brass to even have the ability to do so.

              The CPC have a documented retaliation policy and can’t just launch nukes preemptively.

              Nice shitlib logic. You just repackage white superemacy with imperialist characteristics because that model of the world absolves you of urgency.

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                Power within their own country, I meant, and it was abundantly clear. Also, I was talking about Western leaders in general, and even if your example is an argument against what I said it applies to only one country.

                That’s not to defend the nuclear button or the US in general. But come on, my guy. We’re talking about the power they hold over the people and how they relate to the capital class, and the US’ dodgy nuclear weapons policies honestly have little to do with that.

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                  Again, you’re minimizing when faced with an inherent contradiction.

                  The US is not “one country”, it is the entire security apparatus of the modern imperial core of minority nations. Every western leader is aligned with the US for legitimacy and resources. US policy dictates the global climate. The rise of reactionary fascist politics in Western Europe under Trump was not a coincidence.

                  Would it surprise you to learn that the DPRK has repeatedly petioned the US to mutually dearm its nukes and the US has refused? The nuclear “button” is the entire point of this thread. It is also the way the US threatens the integrity of the entire world.

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          You are missing a very important detail, which is that if they are tools of the capitalist class, it’s the capitalists making decisions and the amount of “power” individual politicians within that apparatus have is essentially a mundane question of administrative structure. Putin the capitalist puppet is no more or less dangerous than a hypothetical quadrivium of capitalists puppets would if they collectively had his power.

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      lol , Hitler said the same thing bro. You want to be that , you will get that too.

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      First of all, not only did Russia launch a rocket at the moon, but it furthermore hit the moon too (at extremely high velocity lol).

      Second of all, it is very literally much more difficult to even get a projectile onto a course that will merely intersect the moon at all than it is to hit any point on the surface of the earth, just in terms of raw mathematics, physics, and engineering.

      Russia very much IS capable, with utmost certainty, of striking anywhere on the face of the earth, anytime they choose to do so.

      The only reason they have not struck is because they have not chosen to.

      (The reasoning behind the current state of that choice, however, is beyond the scope of this discussion.)

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      You’re sidestepping the issue. Why are you defending a clear escalation between nuclear powers? This is the sort of shit the post title is calling out.

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          Lmao war is okay as long as you don’t do it to your neighbors 🤡

          I wish Russia would invade your house. Not your country, just your house specifically.

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            US stole Mexico’s lands to begin with, when they will get their lands back from these righteous libs ?or is it get over with it ?

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          My man, you’ve invaded half the world. You have no moral high ground to be talking about “freedom and independence”. You’ve done exactly the same shit all over Latin America, except you did it with coups and narcotrafficos instead of straight up invasion.

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          You have invaded Iraq, Afghanistan , Libya and Yugoslavia without any hesitation , funded Neo Nazis in Ukraine , funded ISIS in Syria and are occupying oil rich parts of Syria, thats rich coming from westerners to accuse Russia for invading something . Lol

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          You are sidestepping the issue still. Why are you defending an action that could trigger a nuclear war?

          Edit: Also are you claiming the US or NATO have not invaded anyone? Because holy shit.

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              So am I, in fact I was in disbelief when it happened because it seemed monumentally bad geopolitically, though I understand the plight of the people besieged in the Donbas region. As it stands now though you are literally defending a NATO country making a first strike against Russia (Ukraine is as we all know not a part of NATO)

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                you are literally defending a NATO country making a first strike against Russia (Ukraine is as we all know not a part of NATO)

                No i am not. this entire thread is about Russia striking the UK with a Tidal wave caused by a Sarmat missile. I merely stopped by to remind the tankies that they are not the only ones with nuclear missiles and if they were to detonate a warhead anywhere near a NATO country they would quickly be glassed.

                That fact alone should bring you to the conclusion that Putin will not launch one. he is many things but he is not suicidal

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                  Who is “they” lmao you’re an idiot. Are these tankies in the room with us? Do you think anyone on Lemmygrad is in the war room with Putin to tell him “hey bro that’s not a great idea”?

                  Get some fucking perspective or fuck off back to reddit where your fellow liberals will always tell you you are right and the most intelligent person in the room – alongside them, of course.

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                  So you want NATO to strike Russia and inflict civilian casualties with impunity? I’m sorry I’m just trying to figure out what your actual stance is here.

                  Also I am not a “tankie” so you can stop throwing that admittedly meaningless term around.

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                  and you know Putin and his government officials and his people just by looking through your home windows ?

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          I’m pretty sure most of the United States was not part of the United States at one time, and there were other people living there at the time… I wonder what happened to them?