• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    lol, do it anyway. let’s see russia hike its troops all the way to the southern tip of Africa. Putin can barely muster enough fighters and ammo for one war on his own border. let’s see him try to fight another one half a planet away, lmao. it might as well be in space-- at least there are some russians there already! 🤣

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      1 year ago

      This. The big bad menace that could have invaded Europe any time in the last decades, stumbled in its own front yard and broke its teeth.

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        1 year ago

        lol, what an amusing metaphor. much better than the “drunk bear in a china shop” I was thinking of.

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      Maybe they’ll bring along some of that grain that they don’t want to allow through the Black Sea. Putin claimed with his big heart that Russia would not let Africa starve after all.

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          Damn those NATO sissies and the Satan’s homogays! They are just too powerful in Africa for mighty Russia and god’s holy war.

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      Russia could use its mercenaries aka PMC that is has scattred all over the African continent.

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        That’s true but if anything happen I think it would be akin to what israel did with former nazi, quick collect and extract.

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        The thing about mercenaries is that they will only fight so long as they’re getting paid. Nobody wants rubles, so they would expect currency conversion, and this is while the Russian economy is in the toilet. Russia also has a bad history in terms of keeping their word even if you could trust that the country weren’t in a spiral, so most PMCs aren’t exactly gonna get excited for any deal that doesn’t include payment upfront. If Putin is jailed, I think we’re more likely to see a power vacuum in Moscow than people scrambling to free him and go to war against South Africa. Putin only has power so long as he is surrounded by protectors loyal to him. I’m not sure any of them are that loyal to him at this point. He’s fucked the country with this invasion, and he’s getting old, and the rumor is that he’s very sick and possibly terminal, but that part could be propaganda designed to get loyalists to second guess their allegiance.

        Although, to be fair, Russians haven’t exactly made a lot of good decisions lately, so maybe there are enough ignorant dumbasses in the region to decide to go to war. Devout nationalists might continue to fight despite empty bellies, but they won’t fight well.

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        Yeah but that’s literally thousands of miles away. It would take Wagner weeks of driving from Sudan to get to South Africa, and then they would get blown to pieces.

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          Not saying that isn’t a fact, Africa is fuckin huge. Just saying they’re a bit closer than Russia