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by mschuster91 696 days ago
So what, we don't have to send ICBMs on their happy way to Moscow to turn the Kremlin into fine dust.

We can just go and supply Ukraine with a shit ton of Abrams, Taurus or lift the usage restrictions that currently forbid Ukraine to strike targets deep in Moscow.

All of that is certainly better than just accepting Putin's escalations.
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mistermann 696 days ago
> So what

So you are prescribing dangerous policy on guessing.

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mschuster91 696 days ago
There's no need to guess when Russian war drones crash on Romanian soil. This kind of sovereignty violations alone would be enough for anyone to start a war, our politicians however don't have the balls to do anything about it.

And besides: that's the cost of doing "plausible deniability" missions like Russia has done for over a decade now - remember the first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and "they're totally not Russian soldiers" or the time they shot down a passenger plane? Fuck around, find out, it's time to have some good old-fashioned revenge for all the bullshit Russia has pulled and gotten away with until now.

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mistermann 695 days ago
> There's no need to guess when Russian war drones crash on Romanian soil. This kind of sovereignty violations alone would be enough for anyone to start a war, our politicians however don't have the balls to do anything about it.

Does that guarantee this is safe to do?

>> We can just go and supply Ukraine with a shit ton of Abrams, Taurus or lift the usage restrictions that currently forbid Ukraine to strike targets deep in Moscow.

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mschuster91 695 days ago
> Does that guarantee this is safe to do?

There are no guarantees or anything when it comes to Putin not reacting to something done against him, but it is a certainty that he will escalate if not pushed back, because that has been both his personal and his country's M.O. for decades.

At the end this is a risk we have to be willing to take, otherwise it will be the Baltics next that's up for grabs. Or maybe Hungary, that one won't even need soldiers the way Orban is going.

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mistermann 695 days ago
> There are no guarantees or anything when it comes to Putin not reacting to something done against him

What did you mean by this then?

>> There's no need to guess

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> At the end this is a risk we have to be willing to take

Are me and my family included in this obligation?

> otherwise it will be the Baltics next that's up for grabs.

Are you guessing again?

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