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Post by LtWorf » Sun, May 17, 2026, 7:17 AM UTC

bulbar wrote: post #80

LtWorf wrote: post #72

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How many times have germany, sweden, italy invaded russia in history and how many times has russia done the opposite? Either you're going to be surprised or you're just in bad faith.

When the Nazis attacked, it was important for the Soviets and the world that the Soviets had a huge army. So yeah that kind of supports my argument. Doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Putin transformed the young post cold war democracy of Russia right back into a dictatorship and is now in a full scale war with another country and would have already invaded everything he thinks should be part of 'great Ru…

Post by LtWorf » Sun, May 17, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

tastyface wrote: post #82

karim79 wrote: post #9

A friend of mine recently got headhunted by a "defense" company called, and I won't even post the link, it's a website which sounds a bit like Van Helsing with some AI thrown in as a twist. He got an offer of 50k EUR more than his current already ridiculous salary. I had to say that it's up to you, but don't expect me to still be your friend and still talk to you if you go for that. "defense"

Gotta say, it’s kinda funny how many people here get triggered by this line of thinking. "Yes, of course I'd make tools to kill people for money! How dare you unfriend someone for that?" Telling on themselves.

Post by michaelscott » Mon, May 18, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

brahma-dev wrote: post #70

michaelscott wrote: post #19

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Sure, but what _is_ the practical solution to the invasion of a foreign military power on your home soil then? Do you think these systems should only be developed by the government? And if so, do you then apply the same logic to anyone working in the government?

Idea. They can develop all they want, only the government should be the one buying and selling weapons. That way if a government decides to sell weapons to genocidal maniacs, people can vote that government out.

Post by bulbar » Wed, May 20, 2026, 4:32 AM UTC

LtWorf wrote: post #86

bulbar wrote: post #84

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If you intend to discuss, you need to state an explicit argument.

My argument being that your claim that Russia is capable of invading Europe is fear mongering to convince people to pay for wars they don't need.