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[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 months ago

LOOOOOOOL. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 months ago

The vacillating back and forth is wild. "NATO sucks" "but we didn't need them", "the fight is won" "but they won't help us continue it", "a simple military maneuver" "but we need their help with it but it's so easy to do with so little risk but we don't need their help". Reminds me of the old "the enemy is strong and weak at the same time" aspect associated with fascism.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is more so pure panic and desperation rather than fascist rhetorical focus switching. You can tell that the only plan they had blew up catastrophically in their faces and now there is no plan B, and they are scrambling from one improvised response to the next but they're only digging the hole they are in deeper.

If even the European NATO members, the biggest cucks in the world who love nothing more than doubling down on a lost cause until the bitter end (Ukraine), can see this is a doomed gambit that they absolutely don't want to be involved in and dragged down along with, then you know things are well and truly fucked.

[-] Luca@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago

It's an interesting choice to posture that it's a simple military maneuver to open the strait, but the supposedly strongest naval power is unable or unwilling to do so. If it were simple, they'd do it; if the strait wasn't important at all, they wouldn't talk about it.

Not sure about the rhetorical strategy with acknowledging that it's important, but complaining it's still closed. Better optics would be to just not say anything at all, but he can't even manage that.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Reads like theatre to me.

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