r/worldnews • u/Bloke22 • Mar 21 '23
Putin has vowed to respond to Britain sending uranium tank arms to Ukraine - as his defence minister says there are fewer steps to go before nuclear collision between Russia and the UK Russia/Ukraine
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/putin-respond-to-uk-uranium-fuel/72
u/trom-boner Mar 21 '23
Funny, we’ve had more radioactive and chemical weapons deployed on UK soil by Russia in recent years. Classic projection
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u/StickmanEG Mar 21 '23
Can’t Putin just, like, fuck off now? He’s become pretty tiresome. No one likes you mate, call it a day, there’s a good chap. Go live a life of sheer decadence somewhere, stop bothering the rest of us with your small dick energy.
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u/MapNo7528 Mar 21 '23
If you send nlaws and javalins I'll be mad, if you send himars I'll be even mader , if you send patriots I'll be very mad , if you send tanks I'll be very very mad , if you send jets I'll be very very very mad and the pattern continues
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u/Teddiesmcgee Mar 21 '23
They studied at the Susan Collins School for Strategic Negotiations.
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u/Echo4117 Mar 21 '23
Also, those are supposed to be not very good against the Motherland's tanks, and are destroyed many times over before they arrived ...Right?
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u/TROPtastic Mar 22 '23
The famous Bradleys that were announced by a military spokesperson as being destroyed before the US even said they were sending them.
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u/Kat-Shaw Mar 22 '23
Or the picture of the destroyed Ukrainian Abrams tank the Russians and their tankie sympathisers were spreading.
The amazing part was the wreckage was in a desert. You know, that famous expansive sandy desert of Ukraine.
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u/Sea_Perception_2017 Mar 21 '23
Another empty threat? Come up with something new, please.
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u/ArmsForPeace84 Mar 21 '23
In other words, they're gonna sit there and take it. And by their own admission, there are more last straws beyond it that they'll sit there and take. There are just fewer last straws, in the pile, than there once were.
Good to know. Up next on Kremlin Sesame Street, Grover teaches us about "near" and "far."
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u/Gibbonici Mar 21 '23
Consider it a favour returned for sending polonium and novichok armed spies into the UK.
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u/theholybikini Mar 22 '23
My family have a Ukrainian surname (not hard to work out why, refugees, WII, etc, etc) and my mother and sister got hit by a toxin as a result of food poisoning not long after the Skripal poisoning.
With the combination of name, proximity and timing, the ambulance crews very nearly didn't enter the house to hook them both up to respirators in time. My father had to convince them, screaming through a letterbox, to come and save them.
That's even before we get on to my family in Lviv.
Those poisonings did actual, real harm to completely unconnected folks.
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u/Gaz-rick Mar 21 '23
I swear the power of the millions of pairs eyes collectively rolling in the UK right now will cringe Putin to death.
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u/jlaw54 Mar 21 '23
The funny thing is the UK actually have an argument for WMD release against Russia after Russia released WMDs in a public space in the UK. The Russians are still owed for that act of war. One that was intentionally carried out in a public space.
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u/Gutternips Mar 22 '23
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/26/politics.russia
140 Brits poisoned with polonium and at least five poisoned with novichok.
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u/Kat-Shaw Mar 22 '23
That's why I shed no tears when I see those drone drops. Russia has been overdue a smack in the face since Salisbury and it's high time they get put in their place.
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u/Fordmister Mar 22 '23
I mean this not as a joke but its kinda scary how close we genuinely got to WW3 over Salisbury and how little the public is aware of that fact, The Russians ostensibly came to assassinate 1 bloke and his daughter but left enough WMD on the streets of the town that houses many personnel from one of the UK largest military installations to kill everyone that lived there twice over (the threat being made is pretty clear to see)....in a parallel reality somewhere the UK didn't get the Novichock secured quickly enough and it lead to a full on nuclear exchange after an unprovoked WMD attack on a UK town by the Russian federation.
This idea that anything the West is doing in Ukraine is somehow an unjustifiable escalation is nonsense when you consider the United kingdom could feasibly have triggered article 5 in 2018 after an unprovoked WMD attack on its soil and actively chose to de-escalate, limiting its response to expelling some diplomats (and presumably some behind closed doors phone calls between certain officials where the word "submarine" was used at least once) and look where that got us. Anyone claiming the west is the party doing the escalation here quite frankly hasn't been paying attention to the last 10 years
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u/joeChump Mar 21 '23
Interesting proposition. To cringe to death: you sit in a bulletproof booth with a loaded gun. You’re at the centre of a huge stadium filled with people and all the worst and most cringeworthy things you ever did are displayed on a large screen for all to see. The only way to stop the video is to kill yourself.
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u/Gaz-rick Mar 21 '23
Lol I was more thinking the collective weight of millions of people all thinking 'you Napoleon complex wanker' would literally just force him to keel over. Such brutal judgement delivered in the most English of ways without even a word spoken.
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u/Inflation_Real Mar 21 '23
If I had a dollar for every time some dude from Kremlin threatened the west with nuclear stuff since the war started I'd be a rich dude.
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u/DGFF001 Mar 21 '23
I heard they pay for each time a russian does a nuclear threat... But it's in rubbles.
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u/ne1c4n Mar 21 '23
But it's in rubbles.
These threats are worth about as much as a rubble lol.
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u/Loves2Spludge Mar 22 '23
Fuck sake, I can barely afford the heating in a normal winter let alone a nuclear one.
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u/Bored_guy_in_dc Mar 21 '23
Putin needs to take a long walk past many open windows.
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u/Rexia2022
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It's not a nuclear collision with us you need to worry about, it's what happens when our son, America sees what you did.
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u/YsBrann Mar 21 '23 •
as a French , we will come to help you, nobody has any right to bully UK except us.
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u/Rexia2022 Mar 21 '23
That's how it should be, after a thousand years of fighting, we're the only ones that can mess with each other.
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u/2000feetup Mar 21 '23
“Aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength”.
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u/Zederikus Mar 22 '23
The fun thing about being in London is knowing you’re the first UK city to get nuked 100x but also knowing that we wouldn’t want to live in whateverthefuck that will happen after anyway
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u/imperfectalien Mar 22 '23
Russia won’t nuke London. All their children, bank accounts, and property are there.
By nuking London Putin would impoverish all the surviving oligarchs with one stroke.
Oh and also get Russia absolutely destroyed
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u/Lego_Nabii Mar 22 '23
I seem to remember it was revealed the first UK city to be bombed 'as an example' in the beginning of a nuclear exchange with the Soviets was Hull.
Reasoning was it is strategically important but not economically, culturally or politically so there was a chance it would not kick off a bigger exchange while making a point. I could never decide of this was a pro or anti-Hull statement.
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u/Spellcheck-Gaming Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23
They’d likely go for a target in the centre of the UK, maybe Manchester or Leeds, divide the country in two and put excessive strain on our internal resources to assist.
They may also target Faslane in Scotland, not far out of Glasgow, as that is where a large amount of our nuclear arsenal is kept.
By focussing on disrupting our own resources it’ll put us on our back foot whilst giving Russia a chance to push… but tbh, the second Russia fires any nukes, the UK are loosing our own from our subs and turning Russia into a field of glass. It’s not something Russia would do to win the war, it’s something Russia would do if they are backed into a corner with no alternatives. Doubt it’ll ever come to that.
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u/Ramiren Mar 21 '23
I see French, Canadians, Australians and Americans all saying they'd defend us, brings a tear to my eye man.
Just know that if the same happened to you guys, we'd have your backs too, although judging by the absolute state of Putins joke-army, I doubt any of us would need the backup.
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u/Possiblyreef Mar 21 '23
They already started shit with us when they exposed our citizens to radioactive and chemical weapons.
It's why we're happy to send mountains of shit to blow them up whilst training tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and sticking 2 fingers up to their "red lines"
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u/n0goodusernamesleft Mar 22 '23
Sick laughter in Russian media last October and cowards joy hoping the EU folks will freeze and will be miserable due to the lack of russian natural has supply for heating. Being happy when others are desperate, what a nation... 🙉
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u/LibrarianUsual7734 Mar 22 '23
Same here in the Czech Republic. 🇨🇿 They started shit when they blew up our ammunition depot and killed two of our people. They killed our people! Again! And after all bad things they did to us in the last 100 years there still are individuals among us thinking Russia (the country I mean) is our friend. Even though we were the first (along with the US) to be listed as an enemy. 💪
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u/FlavinFlave Mar 21 '23
Look we’re basically a dysfunctional family the west. There’s lots of skeletons in our closets that were not proud of from the past 500 years+ of existing, but if someone picks a fight with my family I’m fucking raising hell.
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u/John__Wick Mar 22 '23
We may come from different lands, but we all can agree to shooting a fascist or two before grabbing a pint.
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u/Paging-Dr-Holliday Mar 21 '23
WWI & II made us all family. We give each other shit, but it's out of love.
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u/Shrimpsmann Mar 22 '23
German here, I promise this time we won't fuck up and join y'all.
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Mar 22 '23
Another German chiming in. If anyone messes with an EU country (and I include the UK in this still) they get bitchslapped.
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u/a_friendly_hobo Mar 21 '23
Well, most kids would come to their parents' aid when they're getting fucked over.
The Commonwealth and friends are no exception.
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u/jlaw54 Mar 21 '23
And the US is essentially honorary Commonwealth.
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u/thedirtyharryg Mar 21 '23
America is the rebel child, that's all.
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u/jlaw54 Mar 21 '23
When I was in Kandahar, we always invited the Brits over for a 4th of July cookout.
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u/jacob822 Mar 21 '23
American here. I’ll throw hands for any of y’all, maybe I just like throwin hands but I also like y’all
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u/SuparNub Mar 21 '23
As a Dane I think we have a right to bully the brits too. Afterall we did it first :)
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u/Leasir Mar 21 '23
UK still have enough tridents to glass all the relevant parts of Russia.
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u/DirtyProtest Mar 21 '23
Usually there is one Trident on duty at any one time and three in Dock or something similar.
The Last few months two Vanguard class have been on patrol Instead of the usual one.
Oh and I just learned that the Falklands task force ships HMS Coventry and Sheffield which were both sunk were nuclear armed with we177 as far as Ascencion Islands.
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u/FaxOnFaxOff Mar 22 '23
Always one at sea at any given time - it's Continuous At Sea Deterrence. One in port doing repairs/maintenance, others on training.
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u/EastComprehensive567 Mar 21 '23
You goofy fucks we are in nato 🤣
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u/ReverseCarry Mar 22 '23
Partially related, but according to recent surveys in NATO countries, the most ride-or-die motherfuckers in the whole organization are actually the Albanians. 98% of interviewed Albanians were willing to directly deploy and throw hands if another NATO country were attacked, and I just really have to admire that.
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u/RanCestor Mar 21 '23
"You are hindering our otherwise unsuccessful and catastrophic invasion/war-crime progression... Well we will use our nuclear missiles against you as part of our strategy because we want to liberate Russian citizens and de-nazify Ukraine and deport them to Siberia in order to somehow create a better Russia so remember we are pro-premptive strike about as much as we are Pro-kremlin, heil Putin!"
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u/tombalol Mar 21 '23
We have our own nuclear weapons so a nuclear attack is pointless as it would obliterate Russia too. It's an empty or suicidal threat. That said it's nice to know America has our back.
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u/theumph Mar 21 '23
Don't sell yourself short. You guys can wipe life off of atleast a continent all by yourself.
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u/Names-James Mar 21 '23
As a US citizen I feel san attack on the UK is an attack on the US. Because of this I doubt they'll do anything but if they do shits about to get WILD!
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u/adarkuccio Mar 21 '23
They're not gonna nuke the UK out of nowhere... this is another empty embarrassing threat from Russia.
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u/No_Patience2428 Mar 21 '23
I’m old enough to remember the mass enlisting after 9/11. I can only imagine millions of Americans would voluntarily serve if Putin were to attack us or our European allies.
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u/religionisaparasite Mar 21 '23
The worldwide military spending is around 2.1 Trillion.
Nato spends 1.2 Trillion of that, or 57%.
Japan, South Korea, Australia - all Nato partners - spend another 136 billion, or 6.5%.
Russia spends 66 Billion or 3.1%
China is around 14%
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u/Ayylmaothoughyaknow Mar 21 '23
Lets be honest though the scariest thing for a regime about attacking europe is probably the US kicking their teeth in before the europeans even ask for any help from em lmao
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u/kaishenlong Mar 21 '23
I can see it clearly.
Report goes out in the news, "Russia has attacked the UK with..."
USA: "Hold my beer."
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u/noobstockinvestor Mar 21 '23
As a Canadian citizen I feel an attack on the US and UK is an attack on Canada. We got your guys back 👊🏻
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u/aussiespiders Mar 21 '23
As an Australian we'll join and save the UK again
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u/bodrules Mar 21 '23
Send the drop bears :))
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u/aussiespiders Mar 21 '23
I'll send every prick with a mullet first then you can have our cute drop bears.
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u/Divi_Filius_42 Mar 21 '23
You guys followed the US into Vietnam and Afghanistan, Aussie government tends to be crazy loyal to the US.
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u/sciguy52 Mar 21 '23
The Aussie's have been one of the closest American allies along with the Brits. Why we haven't sent them the best submarines earlier mystifies me. Send them B-21's too as far as I am concerned. There is no reason to hold back this stuff with the UK or the Ausie's.
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u/BTechUnited Mar 21 '23
It's mostly a result of WWII, and Curtins famous speech basically deriding the UK for abandoning us, thus requiring a pivot to the states.
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u/deadwlkn Mar 21 '23
That sentiment is back by the fact we have been pretty close allies after the war of 1812
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u/redditEATdicks Mar 21 '23
We burned your white house down and then we're like sorry. So then y'all were like man, I'm tired of this shit, can't we just be friends now?
And that was the start of a beautiful abusive relationship for ever after.
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u/Reeftankz10000 Mar 21 '23
As an American the fact that the Canadians burned down the White House just makes me chuckle like “hah yea you got us there.” And no upset or anger about it cause that was FOREVER AGO. People have got to stop being so butthurt about the past and move on.
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u/Strong-Obligation107 Mar 22 '23
American nukes would not be needed.
Each one of our subs carries up to 12 trident missles, Each trident missle has 13 mini nukes capable of independent targeting, Each one of those mini nukes are upto 10x more powerful than the nukes used in heroshima or nagasaki.
We have at all times 2 fully equipped subs at sea and they can't be tracked by Russian subs.
So at any given time we have over 300 mini nukes each capable of destroying Moscow, we could wipe out Russia, China and North Korea by ourselves.
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u/KryptorMusic Mar 21 '23
The US has already told Russia exactly what NATO's response would be in private. The only details they revealed to the public were the words "Catastrophic Consequences".
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u/zJordan Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
Our son grew up to be big and strong, on a serious note literally the most formidable military force on the planet. I'm convinced they could take the rest of the world combined and it would be a stalemate.
They don't just talk about their capabilities, they actually have them.
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u/Five_inches_of_taint Mar 21 '23
American here. If someone attacks the UK, they are fucked.
Also, Putin is a bitch. Fuck him.
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u/SpottedRussianBot Mar 21 '23
Putin has become the elderly man shaking his fists at the people driving too fast in his neighborhood.
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u/phlogistonical Mar 21 '23
And moving the fencepoles hoping to get away with claiming increasingly larger bits of the neighbours garden
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u/BlueInfinity2021 Mar 21 '23
Russia reminds me of North Korea at this point with their constant threats of using nuclear weapons.
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u/Quadrenaro Mar 22 '23
Somewhere along the way Russia became North Korea with a tracksuit and Gucci belt.
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u/xilog Mar 22 '23
Any action against UK forces will bring NATO's full force on Dobby's puckered little anus. He won't dare use nukes, otherwise he'll be obliterated along with every Russian asset or military personnel outside Russian territories. He knows this, and more importantly he knows that we know that he knows it.
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u/Substantial_L1ght Mar 21 '23
I am no historian, but I do recall that the last time a fascist threatened Britain it ended in the dissolution of Nazi Germany. Probability is that if the Russian Federation attacks Britain and her allies, the same fate awaits them.
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u/LouisBalfour82 Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
*the UK responds with a dismissive smirk and a slow jerk-off motion...
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u/YamiPhoenix11 Mar 22 '23
Russia's mighty army for years now was a paper tiger. It folded failing to invade 1 country. Putin is dragging Russia into a total collapse because he surrounded himself with yes men. I would be amazed if Russia does not fall into a civil war too.
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u/XvzaXX Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
my grandfather in WW2 was a radio gunner flying in a B25 Mitchell...He crashed landed in what i believe was Italy as they hit the ground they all ran out of the plane thinking it was going to explode and as he told it out of nowhere a solo British soldier comes strolling up and all he said was "bit of a rough time eh chap"(bit of a paraphrase) his calm and casual British demeanor made everyone start cracking up as they were just running for their lives. the Brit Radioed medics handed them some rations and they ate a nice meal together while getting patched up...embedded in my head at a young age that you guys are our brothers..and thats not even bringing up the fact how many of you "chaps" came to our defense when we were attacked on 9/11...living 30 minutes from the the world trade centers you guys standing with the US provided my 8 year old self with an overwhelming sense of security and confidence that everything was going to be ok through all the chaos, thank you..i shit on you guys on reddit all the time but if shit hits the fan not only me but millions of Americans would line up to go fight along side brothers and sisters in the UK and the rest of our allies. these dictators have no idea how deep these generational ties go..unbreakable bonds like what we have the the UK is what makes our countries so strong.. ok now i gotta go drink a few beers and go listen to some Winston shoutout to all my brothers overseas.
:small edit my grandfather passed at 97 and had severe dementia and those stories he remembered all the way up till the end to me thats significant.
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u/FeelingSinger9373 Mar 21 '23
Right back at you from over the pond i for one am glad Americans are allies to the uk we have are differences but we are the same in so many ways it’s good to know we have each other’s backs
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u/Wwize Mar 21 '23
This is more fearmongering from Putin. He's trying to scare the West into backing down. It will not work. We know he will never use a nuke because if he does, Russia will cease to exist.
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u/Xmaiden2005 Mar 22 '23
Basically, Russia threatens everyone with nukes if they don't get their way. Putin is insane and unfit to lead
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u/NotAnUncle Mar 21 '23
I really doubt they will have China by their side either by then. Ik we all big up Brics and how China is coming up and the next evil and what not, but nuclear is a diff ballgame. The world is still interconnected, siding with Russia after a nuclear attack on a NATO nation would be the worst stance. Above all, highly doubt they'll even do anything
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u/Red_Icnivad Mar 21 '23
China is happy to let Russia sew a little discord in the world, but they know their path to world domination is an economic one, so will only take war mongering so far.
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u/mithu_raj Mar 21 '23
As if Russia didn’t use APFSDS depleted uranium rounds themselves to destroy Ukrainian tanks
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u/lordderplythethird Mar 21 '23
Actually, Russia doesn't have many DU APFSDS rounds. They only came about for them towards the end of the Cold War, and production never really kicked off before it all collapsed for them. Still using a good number of steel APFSDS rounds hilariously enough
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u/ToastTurtle Mar 21 '23
Putin doesn't like the extra penetration the shells will have. Making his paper tiger even more vulnerable.
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u/bodrules Mar 21 '23
We're a nuclear power,Russia isn't going to do a fucking thing re direct confrontation.
Not to mention the whole NATO thing or the direct ties to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America.
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u/Termin8tor Mar 22 '23
If Russia had any sense it would ask itself how the U.K has depleted Uranium shells in the first place, and moreover where it's active Uranium is being used.
For example, just maybe it's in the U.K's trident MIRV ICBM's that are always at sea and ready to counter attack anyone who thinks they have the bollocks to nuke us.
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u/Karma_Canuck Mar 21 '23
See, the incontinence rumors must have been true.
Putin is shitting himself.
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u/Alundra828 Mar 21 '23
Britain has a lot of problems.
But losing to Russia in a war is certainly not one of them lmao. Russia is a 17.1 million km² clown college, with most of its stock value being in land banks consisting of permafrost and wasteland that can only be described as "shithole brown".
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u/LionXDokkaebi Mar 21 '23
blows dust off Trident II
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u/ludicrous_socks Mar 22 '23
Sales man slaps the roof of the Vengeance
"You can fit so many apocalypses in this baby"
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u/CallitCalli Mar 21 '23
Russia's "we might have to nuke you" is their version of "my dad can beat up your dad"
Fuck off bitch.
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u/Bear_nuts Mar 22 '23
Bros been using the same threat for too long, and now no one believes him, he is the boomer who cried wolf
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u/PSX_ Mar 21 '23
There will be a fucking crater where Moscow and St.Pete once was.. and Xi can get it to if he backs an attack on NATO.
But this is just saber rattling from a failing military nation.
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u/fpomo Mar 21 '23
If Putin and his oligarchs are remotely sane, there are an infinite number of steps to go before a nuclear collision between Russia and UK.