The West has collectively decided that Russia, who should have been friends, is now an inconvenient gas station with rusty, poorly-maintained legacy nukes, and needs to be neutered. We will now watch as Russia is neutered. The West will absorb what makes it through defences and utterly crush Russia. And we will stop hearing shit from Russia about threatening use of their rusty, ill-maintained legacy nukes. F*ck them.
This didn’t have to be. It can still change. We should be friends and indeed allies with Russia and Putin. Why aren’t we? Why can we not settle Ukraine here and NOW?
“rusty, ill-maintained legacy nukes”
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“Russia is nearing the completion of a decades-long effort to replace all of its strategic and non-strategic nuclear-capable systems with newer versions.”
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