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   Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 17:16:02 JST Rob Landley

   So putin ran out of all the ammunition Iran and North Korea could sell him, and was reduced to launching a 40 year old cold war ICBM at Ukraine (except probably not because they no longer work) and this is viewed as a sign of _strength_?

   If he was crashing passenger airliners into Ukraine's cities A) each one would be significantly cheaper, B) Russia has more of them, C) they were last demonstrated to work this century, D) the people who know how to maintain them didn't all retire 15 years ago.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 17:17:27 JST Rich Felker

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     @landley I keep telling folks all his weapons are rotted and all his threats are bluffs and the optimal move would be leveling every military manufacturing capable facility in Russia and subjugating it.