:reddit-logo:

Link to comment.

Buddy posts a lot in some christian sub, some depression sub and about 3D printing. It kind of reminds me of some scene in the chapo book where some out of the way older accountant kept a lot of war shit on and in his desk, as if it was some totem that let him feel like his life wasn't complete drek, who they only found out he was pro war after he died and someone was cleaning out a dead man's desk.

"We can escalate to deescalate" has that nice perfect ring to it that completely sums up the blood thirsty lib foreign policy wonky mind.

  • Judge_Juche [she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    "Escalate to Descalate" is literally something the US defence blob made up about Russia. They theorized that at the start of a NATO-Russia conflict, Russia would immediately launch a nuke at a NATO base or some sparsely populated area to show that they were serious, and NATO would back off becuase nothing was worth a general nuclear war. Even though everyone knows that if Russia did that, there's a very good chance the US would just launch all their missiles anyway.

    The whole point of this moronic argument was to argue for the US to start building tactical nukes again so they could "respond in kind" and pretend this kind of nuclear exchange wouldn't escalate to all out nuclear war.

    This is despite the fact that no other country except for the United States believes nukes can be used for warfighting, all other countries (including Russia) understand nuclear weapons can only be used as deterrents and this is reflected in their doctrine and arsenals. The US is the only one who wants to do what this stupid reddit post is saying, and they are always pushing the envelope on this shit from ABM to nuclear cruise missiles to stealth fighter delivery.

    In the end its all just projection, although it is kind of funny when a Redditor of all people just goes mask off on US nuclear policy but thinks it's a fucking great thing. Also r/geopolitics is the pinnacle of dumb guys trying to sound smart.

    • triangle [none/use name]
      ·
      4 years ago

      lol, I got that impression of the sub. It basically sounded like r/credibledefense but for dumb guys.

      • Judge_Juche [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I also shouldn't throw too much shade since I use to post on r/geopolitics regularly 7 or 8 years ago, when it just had 15k members and you could have somewhat coherent discussions about foreign policy. Specifically it was the only place to post about North Korea without getting bombarded by the same three reddit jokes. After it got more than 30k members the whole sub just devolved into "who would win" posts.

        I even remember the post that put me off forever, it was something like "Could the US emerge victorious if the Muslim world declared war on them".

        • lilpissbaby [any]
          ·
          4 years ago

          yeah, i used to be a MUN person but /r/geopolitics is just unbearably us-centric and lib brained. they always put their shitty fan fiction/conspiracy theories into whatever country the US is currently antagonizing, turning them into cartoon level villains.