World War III became possible (2015)
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Just one of many passages hitting the mark. Creepy.
Everything old is new again I suppose.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap
"In response to the quantitative superiority of the Soviet forces, the U.S. deployed Atomic Demolition Mines for many years in the Fulda Gap. In the early '60s, the Fulda Gap was also protected by V Corps Artillery units equipped with the medium-range MGM-5 Corporal guided missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads."
Wtf went wrong with all of this.
Pointing at the mods when you see flagging has a high chance of being wrong (just by the numbers).
And are you certain it was administrative? Did dang respond to your comment and say something? Or did it just quickly get downvoted?
This is a PR outlet for a startup incubator. If things like u/spez & u/maxwellhill can happen on reddit, they can happen here.
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(In a worse situation when the flag is removed, like other users clicking 'vouch', then the [dupe] is never removed adding more confusion).
(btw, doesn't HN has a "vouch" button for dupes, like on dead posts? Would be great to have an "undupe")
Another interesting documentary is Oliver Stone's 2016 "Ukraine on Fire" [1].
Keep in mind that Oliver Stone has been criticized before for his views o US foreign policy, so the documentary may have some of his bias. Still, it helped me understand better the historical context of what's at stake in Ukraine, Putin's motivations, and what role Western countries played over the last few decades.
No idea. It's a disaster on wheels and everyone knows it.
It means that diplomacy and appeasement from the west had failed with Putin the moment that Afghanistan was invaded by the Taliban after that withdrawal disaster. It cemented the weakness the US has towards the whole world and they put themselves on a weak foot and enabled Putin to have a go on Ukraine.
It turns out that as expected, Biden has created another war again rather than the orange man, who everyone thought was going to be the one to kickstart World War 3.
That’s wild. But the more I think about it, the more plausible it is.
American responses to a tactical nuclear weapon aren't just wipe out life on earth or roll over.
As we are seeing there are political, economic, and social levers that can be pulled.
Beyond that, the cyber domain is highly active. Both Russia and the US have advanced cyber capabilities -- look at Stuxnet.
While I don't doubt that Putin is crazy enough to believe this nuclear deescalation strategy, I find it hard to imagine that somehow this writer at Vox has thought it through but it somehow escaped the notice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.