Biden added, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” He suggested the threat from Putin is real “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.”

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.”

    I mean fuck war, but that's pretty rich coming from a country with a military that hasn't fought a near peer since the 1950s and has routinely gotten its ass handed to it by farmers for the last half century.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Furthermore, if he's acknowledging that the reason there's a threat to begin with is that conventional means have started to become less effective against Ukraine, due in no small part to the fact the West can keep throwing support to Ukraine and fight to the last Ukrainian, isn't is psychopathic that there isn't even a question of trying to end the war just to avoid the threat of nuclear war?