• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    I feel like there’s a chance - not good odds, mind you - but a chance that America ends up sanctioned and diplomatically isolated.

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      29 days ago

      By who exactly? We are moving toward permanent tri-polar authoritarianism: China, Russia, and the United States. Nobody is coming to save us with “sanctions”. We already lost the war. It’s fucking over. People just haven’t come to terms with that reality yet.

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        29 days ago

        we? already lost what war?

        you think Russia today is top 3 global power? by what metric?

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          29 days ago

          you think Russia today is top 3 global power? by what metric?

          Yes, by individual military power, which is the only metric that actually matters when you get down to nut-cutting. Barring some massive geo-political or technological shift, it is going to stay a tri-polar world.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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            28 days ago

            Lmao nah. Russia is the second best military power in Ukraine. They’re a fucking joke. If they were up against a real adversary in a conventional war, they’d get rolled up like an old carpet.