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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by dekhn on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:11PM (#30534755)
It does seem like if he's just invaded donbas he could have gotten away with it.

Having watched the previous fall of the soviet union eventually enough people in moscow get pissed off and there is a regime change, although I suspect putin has control of the apparatus and security forces. So, we might just see a Russia civil war.

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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by InitialLastName on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:38PM (#30536862)
One thing that I've never seen discussed is the notion that the incident to break the 75-year "not nuking anybody" streak the world has been on could well be a civil war in a nuclear state, in which the side in control of the notional military apparatus sees no other way our of losing.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by torstenvl on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:58PM (#30537323)
Luckily, people like Eric Swalwell - the Congressman who proposed using nuclear weapons against Americans who resist gun confiscation - are few and far between.
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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by munk-a on Thursday March 03, 2022 @12:22PM (#30543797)
... In a tweet, that was pretty clearly a troll[1]. It's important to clarify that he never seriously proposed the measure.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-swalwell-gun-owners-n...

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Re:China asked Russia to delay war until after Olympics, Bid... by lupire on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:01AM (#30556536)
Of course he didn't "propose" it. There is nothing to propose until the war starts.
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