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Russia wasn’t even ready to invade one of its former blocs. And that bloc has more than decimated its forces and resources.
But hey, my grandfather got to watch Allied Europe destroy a fascist state that thought it could take over the world, now me and my son get to as well.
"When you are weak, pretend you are strong." Pretty much sums it up.
This is actually reasonable in warfare and encouraged by Sun Tzu, but once the deception is exposed, there is little advantage in clinging to it.
Russia exposed the deception by completely fucking up the invasion of Ukraine.
But there's also nothing to gain by admitting and stopping the deception. As long as there's one useful idiot who can be deceived, you cna keep it going.
And unfortunately there's a lot of useful idiots.
Someone needs to bust out the old iraq propaganda minister meme.
Except this time the fascist states are nuclear capable. The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.
Then they should leave Ukraine.
That's always been a lopsided proposition for Russia in this invasion. The prevailing winds blow east and they'd be poisoning themselves as much as anyone.
You know, like Chernobyl which they also bombed.
They also said that their invasion of Ukraine would take only three days.
They said they would never attack Ukraine. In fact they've written it down and signed it.
Just like they were ready to fully conquer Ukraine, fight?
Just gonna take a little long weekend and acquire some territory, nothin fancy.
Lmfao no you’re not, fuckwit. You’re deploying infantry bum rushes in appropriated civilian sedans with the doors ripped off. The Taliban has better kit than that, for fuck’s sake.
According to the tankies, Russia now has the largest army ever at 1.5m men and are stronger than when they started the special operation. So like they have ..the cards…and not just endless meat waves. It doesn’t matter they’ve only gained inches of territory in months.
Or that Ukraine is holding them off with basically scraps of obsolete Western military equipment, very little first line hardware. Attack Europe and you find the full weight of NATO's first line military hardware shoved up your ass. Somebody pushes a button somewhere and a few dozen Tomahawk missiles destroy your ability to wage war in an afternoon. Nukes not even needed if every airfield and military supply depot within 500 mi of Europe is a smoking crater.
And Ukraine using some modern stuff manage to deep strike Russian economic targets. And new homegrown stuff too.
Putin is trying to save face and trying to entice NATO to attack Russia to justify the wars
Now he's ready for war now that his puppet is back in power.
Yeah, anyone seeing this as Putin doing jackshit is kidding themselves.
This is about having the US attack Europe. Or maybe just Ukraine. Who knows.
It doesn't really matter. What matters is that the US is compromised, and Europe needs to be ready for that yesterday.
I don’t see an appetite in the states for war with Venezuela, a nation we’ve been conditioned to think of as godless socialists for 20+ years, let alone one with NATO allies. Trump doesn’t have unlimited power, as much as he wishes he does.
Either way, Europe should be gearing up.
Russia losing to a small country and now think they can take on all of the Europe?
We know his orange sock puppet has full on dementia, maybe Pootin needs a checkup too?
Russia says a lot of things. But Europe does need to step up production quickly.
Are they now..? Then it seems rather odd - in light of their usual behavior - that they're just talking instead of acting upon it.
Why, it's almost like Putin is so completely full of shit that the pressure is forcing it out his mouth.
well if Russia is as "ready" to fight Europe as it was to fight Ukraine, we have no problem
Destroyed lives and whole towns is hardly a "no problem". russia needs a good kick in the teeth, but these things are never free. I hope Europe is ready to finally stand up.
He says, as they are press-ganging migrants to fight on the front lines and fabricating evidence in order to seize oligarch fortunes.
I watched that part. Putin visibly flinches when he realizes what he said and then for the following few sentences tries to lighten the message down. It's kinda fun to see him that weak in front a microphone.
He's so not ready for a war with Europe that he cannot even lie about it.
But headline creators don't give a fuck about that of course.
Art of the deal
it really was a shit book
Kinda hard to rattle your saber when you already smashed it to pieces failing to kill a crippled animal.
Europe is preventing nothing but the full annexation of Ukraine.
France, laughing with a functional nuclear arsenal...
Germany, not laughing when they remember where France had the targets set.
These .ml folks comments are diabolical 🤣
Sounds a lot like the orange fuck stains crying, bow it make sense where he learned it. Hey trump, tru shutting the fuck up and dying, do Americans a favorite
Oh fucking bring it you cold war-ass Goldeneye dingdong, we're ready
We are not ready though. Mentally, sure, but in case of an all out war we would still run out of ammo, bombs and manpower in weeks. Only now do we see the first factories and production lines coming online based on the investments of the past years and even then not all the supply lines have been adjusted for it. Europe could probably be ready by the end of 2027 at the earliest, provided it removes its command and control dependency from the US.
Realistically, Europe won't be ready until 2030. That's not to say we wouldn't be able to get ready sooner, we absolutely would, if we were to switch to a war economy. But nobody wants that, because it ruins your economy and is grossly expensive.
That doesn't mean we would get crushed, that wouldn't be the case, but we would be on the defensive for a while until the gears of war are properly greased.
Cool, now that Putin is openly threatening war with Europe they will of course stop buying his oil...right!!??
I wish I could have such a small minded view of world politics that I could also pretend it's as simple as: just stopy buying that thing from that person.
And then what? Northern Europe can heat their homes on hopes and dreams? Throw up a couple nuclear reactors that are known to only take months to build and bring online?
Europe has been actively moving away from Russian oil where possible (down to 19% from a high of 27%), but it's not like the market just magically is going to come up with enough supply for the entire continent overnight.
That's ignoring the fact that the vast majority of "european" purchases come from a handful of countries, primarily Hungary, who is also being run by a pro-Russian dictator.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes-oil-and-gas-still-comes-from-russia
Seems like a good time for the EU to get ready for moving troops to Ukraine and start with "flying sanctions" too.