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0 pointsaguaviva1y ago0 comments

Why do people [maintain] that Russia is capable of even threatening the EU?

Because its regime has verbally done just that, and has conducted sabotage and assassinations on EU soil on multiple recent occasions.

The fact that is attacking Ukraine in part as a response to its attempt to join the EU is also very reasonably interpreted as part of this intrinsically threatening stance.

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ReptileMan1y ago· 2 in thread

Putin's mouth is writing checks that his ass cannot cash. They are bogged down for 3 years in the only country in Europe less developed than them. He may have the desire, but he lacks the capacity to threaten Europe.

aguavivaOP1y ago

It doesn't matter that the threats have the additional qualifier of being mostly exaggerated. They're still plainly threats, by every accepted definition of the term.

And he absolutely does have the capacity to use his nukes. It'd be stupid and plainly irrational for him to do so. One can safely say it's objectively unlikely that he will.

But that in no way means he doesn't have the capacity.

ReptileMan1y ago

Of course they are threats, but only stupid person would take them seriously. And nuclear war will be end of the world so no need to worry about it - the people pretend to be scared by conventional war. By this logic Erdogan wants to restore the Ottoman empire and right now is busy invading Syria - is he a threat too?

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