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_xcs4 commented on Russia says it isn't bluffing over threats to use nuclear weapons cnbc.com/2024/05/31/ukrai... · Posted by u/belter

_ncyj · 2 years ago

What Russia is doing is further isolation itself from the rest of the world and their allies like China (who seems to be completely against the use of nuclear weapons). Russia should just give up and withdraw from Ukraine. There is no way they can win against US support and further escalation will only make their recovery more difficult.

_xcs4 · 2 years ago

> There is no way they can win against US support

Oh, they can win or at least achieve something they could sell as a victory to their domestic audience. Russia's biggest strength is that they have endless hoards of people who are for some reason more than happy to go die for the dreams of their leader. No amount of US support is going to change that.

_xcs4 commented on Which country deserves the most credit for the fall of the Third Reich? old.reddit.com/r/AskHisto... · Posted by u/thunderbong

stop50 · 2 years ago

I wouldn't call them supporters, they just had interest in poland and both sides never intended it to be even an middle term agreement.

_xcs4 · 2 years ago

No, they literally signed an agreement between each other which they kept secret and was only revealed during the Nuremberg trials. Soviets only started fighting "the nazis" when they themselves were attacked by Germany in 1941. What's hilarious is Russians are still in denial about their role in the war and teach that the war started in 1941, not 1939. Also to this day people can be fined for correctly pointing out details of the invasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

_xcs4 commented on Which country deserves the most credit for the fall of the Third Reich? old.reddit.com/r/AskHisto... · Posted by u/thunderbong

stop50 · 2 years ago

Italy was first a supporter and then an enemy of Nazi Germany. France was run over and fought back.

_xcs4 · 2 years ago

The Soviets were supporters initially as well. They started the second world war together with Germany by attacking Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

_xcs4 commented on Russia’s oil exports are back to pre-war levels cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

_xcs4 · 3 years ago

> RUSSIAN ECONOMY MINISTRY SEES OIL AND GAS EXPORTS DECLINING BY 6.7% IN REAL TERMS IN 2023 - TASS

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1646922047371501586

_xcs4 commented on Russia strikes nuclear plant in south Ukraine, damaging power plant buildings binsider.bond/russia-stri... · Posted by u/west38

_xcs4 · 3 years ago

Given Russia's staggering incompetence, can we rule out the possibility that they simply didn't know what they were shooting at?

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_xcs4 commented on Could the Soviet Union Have Survived? historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/diodorus

_xcs4 · 5 years ago

If you are interested in USSR and exploring the now independent countries, I highly recommend a YouTube channel called "bald and bankrupt" [0]. It's essentially a travel vlog but the guy visits places that you would probably never visit yourself.

One interesting take away is that many people he asked say they lived much better under the Soviet rule than they're living now. I guess it's not that surprising given that for some countries it will take more than fifty years to catch up where they were before the collapse [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt/videos (scroll down a little bit for USSR videos)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union#Dissolution_and_a...

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