• @gnutrino@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Man, China must be watching this shitshow, looking at Outer Manchuria and wondering what exactly Russia could do about it at this point if they decided to reverse the Treaty of Aigun…

        • @Gsus4@mander.xyz
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          161 month ago

          And this is why nuclear powers don’t start stupid wars of conquest, because if they fail (normally they fail), “nukes fly”.

      • @Linktank
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        111 month ago

        Pretty soon the world is going to need proof that they have even one working warhead before that stops being a viable defense.

        • @superkret@feddit.org
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          31 month ago

          That’s just the thing: No one knows, not even the Russians.
          Which is why they won’t launch them. Cause that could lead to a worse outcome for Putin than total annihilation - public embarassment.