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“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia could have a right to go to war with NATO.

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[–] FuglyDuck 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder… does medvedev have enough wits left to understand that if Russia has that right… then everyone … has that right?

They’re finding Ukraine difficult enough. Sure we’re sharing some toys (a lot of toys)… but they don’t have carriers or attack subs or missile destroyers…

Threatening nato is not a sane decision to make. We might just take them at their word.

[–] SupraMario 91 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The toys we're sharing are our older toys from the 80s and 90s even. Its not even the more deadly stuff we have...and they're fighting against a force that's getting a few weeks training on these toys and sent out into the field. If russia truly wants a 72 hour war...all it would need to do is attack NATO.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah, Ukraine is excited about maybe getting some F-16s and how much that could help with the air war and meanwhile a couple of F-22s could take down a whole squadron of them.

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[–] Candelestine 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

72? Pretty generous. I'm pretty sure we have more HARM missiles than they do S400 SAM batteries.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

America is not giving Ukraine the most advanced weapons and that is stopping Russia.

Imagine if America used their pre advanced weapons.

It’s posturing. Russia wants to look tough. They’re a paper tiger.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good news then: If you go to war with one NATO member you get war with the rest of them absolutely free!

[–] BetaBlake 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For 4 Easy payments of 19.95 you too can get your shit pushed in by 31 different countries, with the added bonus of having someone else raise your children.

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[–] Gingerlegs 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can’t even take on Ukraine, you want to come at every other western country? Lol

[–] Dkarma 24 points 1 year ago

Russia is the irritating kid down the street who just broke his nerf gun so he's threatening to throw the darts at you instead and tell his mom you're not invited to his birthday party...

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (34 children)

Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you

Because we all know the Soviet Union and Russia are exactly the same thing and the Russian military is definitely as powerful and as capable as the Soviet Union, no doubt. Please pay no attention to the complete lack of victory in Ukraine.

[–] Earthwormjim91 21 points 1 year ago

When has either the Soviet Union or Russia “won” anything in the last 150 years?

Their “win” in WWII was throwing as many bodies as possible and starving their own cities to delay the Germans long enough for winter to set in.

Soviet casualties were 4.5x higher than Axis casualties in operation Barbarossa. They lost 21k aircraft to 2800 for the Germans. 20k tanks destroyed vs 2700 for the Germans. And 4.5 million casualties compared to 1 million for the Germans.

I wouldn’t call that “burying” anyone. The biggest effect it had was weakening the Germans enough for the Allies to finish the job on the Western Front and bail the Soviets out.

The Soviets lost in Afghanistan in the 80s because of the US funding the Mujahideen.

Their biggest victory in the last century was taking Crimea because nobody else stepped up to help Ukraine like we are now.

Russia has nukes. That’s it. Beyond that they’re worthless militarily.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maxim Katz has explained that these kinds of deranged declarations are not directed at us. They are a kind of symbolic self-humiliation of Medvedev to prove to Putin that he is still loyal. It's "look I am willing to appear so wretched and ridiculous to the foreigners, I could not possibly be a threat to you, I am not some kind of alternative that could replace you, I am such a silly man, please don't throw me out of a window".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Speculation runs that Dimi has been told by the Tsar that if he acts like the tough guy he isn't with enough bravado, he'll be allowed to sit in the big boys' chair and pretend to be president again.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

The second greatest army in Ukraine wants to mess with Nato? LOL

[–] blue_zephyr 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

War has fuck-all to do with rights. If you're going to attack a NATO country we will beat your ass back into the stone age without mercy, your nukes won't save you if you dare cross that line.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So has Denmark.

Though it would be funny ig Russia didn't. Imagine Putin declaring war on Poland and Poland just saying "no, it's against the law."

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[–] Red_October 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... he's not wrong? They could have a war with NATO any time they wanted it. Russia could have war with NATO whenever they want it. They've been very careful to not actually DO that, of course. Last thing they need is to start losing another one with someone who won't have any difficulty in bringing the full conflict right to them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

It's a very "hold me back, bros" sentiment. Only his bro, singular, is Belarus.

[–] squidman 34 points 1 year ago

But do they have the ability to war? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

They can't even fight a small country like Ukraine and they want to test the might of a fully armed and optional ~~Battlestaion~~ NATO alliance? Do they believe that anyone really believes them?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

History's on their side? Boy do I have news for him...

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 31 points 1 year ago

And everyone has the right to shoot back. Not sure why such a declaration comes across as so one sided.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

A right to war? Are you fucking high?

[–] Badass_panda 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean... I can't see any issue with NATO not stopping Ukraine from invading its own territory... the territory the UN recognizes as part of Ukraine... and which Russia signed three separate treaties promising to respect as part of Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Nobody is stopping them from exercising that right against any NATO country. What about Poland? They have been a historical nuisance, Dimi. Just shoot a rocket at a farm somewhere, but make it intentional this time.

[–] cabron_offsets 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These dumbfucks can’t manage a war with Ukraine. To state the obvious.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?” - Mr. Blonde.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Mate, you can't even win against a non-NATO country, that happens to be the poorest in Europe.

But sure, you have the right to have a war with everyone. Even if we all know you can't.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A house cat has the right to attack a lion as well...

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[–] BeautifulMind 24 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah. Everyone has the right to make bad decisions

[–] pozbo 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, we're all gonna be totally dead in 3 days. Remember how they took Kiev in 3 days? Flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Sure. And the mouse has the right to war with the elephant. But it's not a very clever thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... I mean, ok?

Come get some.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh don't bother. Medvedev is a joke. Always has been. I tell you this as a Russian.

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[–] WiildFiire 20 points 1 year ago

How are they gonna have time to bury anybody when they're busy burying hundreds of thousands of citizens they force to go to war for them?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Just claiming you have the right doesn't mean you actually have the right. Ask January 6 trumpers for more information on that subject.

On another point: just because you can doesn't mean you should. You can kick a Lion in the balls but that doesn't make it a great idea.

Then again, I'm sure Russia's leadership knows this and right now is just posing like an 8th grader bragging about his uncle being a navy seal because holy shit, Russia is fuuuuuuucked.

For the next decades it will be busy pulling itself together, trying to rebuild an international economy that doesn't rely 100% on unsustainable practices of just selling all it's minerals, getting rid of the reputation that Putin gave it, trying to rebuild a military that isn't the laughing stock of the world... And all that is assuming that the country doesn't fall apart, doesn't dove into civil war and that say, china doesn't decide it likes the taste ofmsome of the pieces that are left.

Russia is fubar, and right now Ukraine is the victim, butt within this decade, the innocent Russian citizens will be the victims of it all

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Krushchev is an interesting person to quote here. Wasn't he stripped of power by an empire that would utterly collapse within 20 years of his death?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Freedom of ~~Speech~~ War doesn't mean Freedom from Consequences!

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[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl 17 points 1 year ago

Okay...? Why would you want to though? Just want to kill a lot of people for no other reason than, "but I have the right to!"

[–] Buddahriffic 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to war isn't about rights. Rights are a soft power thing while war is purely about hard power. What is he even trying to say here? Like if there was a right and lack of a right to war, what would they look like? What would the functional difference between the two be?

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[–] Gnemesis 15 points 1 year ago

You have the right to guzzle bleach if you choose also... just sayin'.

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