Terrorists do what terrorists do.
Acts of war. Also terrorism.
Literally the day before the election:
Sounds like the perfect excuse to subject any vehicle coming from a country that deals with Russia (cough China) to some additional time consuming bomb checks. They can't say it's tarrifs or unappropriate as there is a legitimate threat made.
Oh. Oh I DARE you russia. I DARE you to try to push America around using airplanes and terrorism. Fuck around and find out what happens when you give America a REASON to attack an oil rich country with justified claims of fighting a war on terror.
America see's a plane explode midair, the very first thing that gets asked in this country is "Who did it?" And the SECOND that question is answered, this entire country will be calling for us to bomb them to the stone age.
See, the MAD doctrine only applies when you have sane, rational, logical people dealing with a situation. Have you seen this country? We're so trigger happy that we're going to malls and movie theaters and schools, just shooting anyone. We feel abandoned by our government. We feel hopeless. We feel angry. We feel irritated. We feel frustrated. We've been in a never ending election cycle for 24 years. Yes, I realize elections were every 4 years even before 2000, but at least prior to that it felt like politics went away for 3 1/2 years after each election. We've been in the 2024 election season since 2015. In no small part due to russian election interfearance.
We're at each others throats. We're ready to kill. We're ready to die. We're ready.......and now you want to become the target? You want to be the thing that unites us all, and says "You know what, you're republican. I'm democrat. We're both American.....and these fuckers just attacked US. YOU READY TO GO TO WAR FRIEND????" and that republican would pull 16 guns from his hip, his boots, his legs, his jacket, and who knows where else? And why does he have all these guns on his person? Because it's Tuesday! He'd say "We may have our differences, but take these 6 guns. I brought extras! I thought there might be a line for the buffet at cracker barrel. I wasn't going to face that without extra guns! Sure, I may have already had 5 on me, but who would face a cracker barrel lunch rush without an extra 11 guns, and whiskey???
And THIS is the country russia wants to start shit with???
Russia. I fucking dare you.
They're waiting to see what happens tomorrow. If they do this with Trump as president, he'll use it as an excuse to start killing his own people
Hey, uhm... Also I heard, that there's oil to be found below Putin's secret bunker.
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