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MisterMunchkin • yesterday at 12:51 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Interesting. The government has been suggesting war with Russia is coming. This would be a great initial move. Take out the European food supply network, then hit things like the grid and the internet.

It's funny because red storm rising is an old book at this point, but it's pretty accurately shown exactly how conflict with Russia plays out. Even down to Russia realising it is about to run out of diesel... causing it to invade Europe while it still can.


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mvdwoord • yesterday at 12:58 PM

An apt time to revisit this gem...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192998/

hn_submit • yesterday at 1:44 PM

Russia will never attack NATO, that would be their death knell. NATO is a hundred times stronger than Ukraine, who are kicking Russia's ass as we speak. I even suspect that if Putin were to order an attack he would be put down by his own people.

Yes, they're threatening and doing some low-key sabotaging (through third-parties for plausible deniability, which is good for us since we can choose not to respond), but they're shying away from actually killing people through means that might be directly attributed to them (like with a Shahed drone).

I do accept that Russia wants to hurt NATO for our support of Ukraine, but there's a limit to how far they can go.

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chrisjj • yesterday at 7:48 PM

> This would be a great initial move. Take out the European food supply network

So the current incident was a preemptive alert by Brussels.

SanjayMehta • yesterday at 3:00 PM

Russia is out of diesel because they're shipping it to Trump.

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4gotunameagain • yesterday at 12:57 PM

Russia cannot invade Europe, that is nonsense peddled by the EU establishment to support their idiotic military Keynesianism as part of a plan to reboot EU manufacturing.

They are struggling to take a couple of villages in Ukraine, why would they invade the EU.

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