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France greenlights Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia (www.rt.com)

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Time to do your thing, frenchies

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There was pretty direct involvement of both sides in Afghanistan (in the 80s), Vietnam, and especially Korea. It's bad, but at least it's not wholly unprecedented.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

The USSR was a hegemon back then. So it could engage in "symmetrical" proxy wars. This is a new situation, I think, where the USA, UK, and France able to act through far more proxies than either Russia or China can.

[–] PostingInternational@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, but US/UK never directly bombed/struck the USSR soil or vice versa, so it is unprecedented.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russian civil war Cough

[–] PostingInternational@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

lol ok debatebro, but obviously it was comparison with Cold War 1.0. Pretty sure they didn’t have nukes in Russian civil war.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok goalpost mover.

[–] PostingInternational@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 month ago

And yet you continue with your liberal debatebro pedantry. Sad.