Trolls & bots fail to understand or accept that Russia is anything but infinite and inevitable - but numbers are numbers. They’ve spent half of their entire Soviet inheritance to steal what they sit on today. The war doesn’t end when they get to zero vehicles. The half they’ve squandered is surely the BETTER half, and they still need an army for territorial defense and internal repression. Ukraine is not about the break, and this is probably the best position Russia is ever going to be in. This is the endgame of this messy, abusive Divorce, and Pootz has to come up with some whopper lies to say it was all worthwhile.

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    13 hours ago

    If that’s the case, why did the two cold war superpowers not use nukes in Afghanistan or Vietnam?

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      9 hours ago

      Do you think russia would have nuked anybody if Vietnam got nuked by the US? I honestly don’t believe so.

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        8 hours ago

        Considering some of the close calls we had from false positives, yes, I absolutely do think that

        But again, if you’re so sure that there would be no meaningful retaliation and that Russia would nuke Ukraine just now if it could, why did the Soviets not nuke Afghanistan and why did America not nuke Vietnam?