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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by SanjayMehta on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:49AM (#50102894)
You do understand that a naval blockade is an overt act of war?

You're basically asking two nuclear powers to go to war. The US has been sly in its blockades, but anything like what you're suggesting is basically WW-3.

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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by varjag on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:54AM (#50102949)
Speaking of overt acts of war, Russia just blew up a merchant vessel in EU territorial waters. A little blockade will do just fine.
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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by SanjayMehta on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:59PM (#50113910)
About time. I really don't understand why Russia has been so restrained. They should have used NATO style tactics from day one, like the methods used on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Syria.
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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by varjag on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:52AM (#50114579)
So we agree that blockade is not a problem then, goodie.
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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by SanjayMehta on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:52AM (#50116336)
Russia should have done exactly what NATO did to Yugoslavia et al.

Unfortunately they are too nice for their own good.

You Europeons should thank your stars that President Putin is a man of restraint; someone like Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Hussain would have wrecked Europe overnight.

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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by varjag on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:38AM (#50116706)
Maybe Russia should have tried that on NATO if that's where it's beef is, rather than attacking a neutral third country. But Russia is a weak bully and weak bullies seek for weaker victims (and have weak, cowardly sympathizers).
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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by SanjayMehta on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:39AM (#50191235)
Neutral country? They were collaborating with NATO.
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Re:Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield dep... by the_why_of_y on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:33AM (#50129431)
NATO never had a combat mission in Syria or Iraq.

Russia, on the other hand, together with the Syrian government bombed so many hospitals in Syria that Doctors Without Borders stopped reporting the locations of their hospitals.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/msf-will-not-s...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/15/syria/russia-strategy-ta...

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