Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by tremon on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:15PM (#30462601)

You mean an alliance helmed by Canada? Ukraine is not allying themselves with a superpower on the other side of the globe, but their western neighbours.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by saalweachter on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:52PM (#30463831)

I feel like "... and thirty years later ..." needs to be in there somewhere, also.

If the Pacific Northwest broke off tomorrow and tried to join Canada, I may still be opposed to war simply out of pacifism, but I wouldn't be terribly shocked if we had a Civil War II over the issue.

If the Pacific Northwest broke off tomorrow, the largest remaining Federal-ish government in the formerly United States recognized it as an independent country, and then thirty years from now it was contemplating an alliance with Canada...

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by JohnBooty on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:52PM (#30463834)

I said it was a flawed analogy. =)

However, in this admittedly flawed analogy, I thought it was pretty clear that Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were meant to be analogous to the multiple NATO countries already sharing borders with Russia.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a dastardly war crime, but it didn't happen in a vacuum either. Was attempting to explain the (shitty) reasoning behind Putin's actions.

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