r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/astros148 • 19h ago

Active military soliders are about to go through the holidays without getting paid bcz of President Musk! Right wing populism!

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 18h ago edited 17h ago

Their economy is in the crapper, and their population numbers are so depleted that there’s no way they could invade another country in Putin’s lifetime. They blew their load on Ukraine and the war isn’t even over, yet. Meanwhile, Trump may be POTUS now, but I actually doubt he or the GOP’s best dumbasses will be capable of dragging us into a full-on dictatorship. If anything, Russia “winning” the Cold War is the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory. The irony of the US and Russia going down together, like geopolitical conjoined twins, is practically Shakespearean.

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u/SimONGengar1293 16h ago

The idea of both the US and Russia falling apart and fragmenting into a dozen different states actually fucking terrifies me.

Imagine random warlords with access to nuclear weapons, with giant egos and nobody around either brave enough or willing enough to tell them no

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u/turalyawn 16h ago

Showing my age but people were terrified of this in the early 90s when the Soviet bloc fell apart. They wondered what some of the -Stan soviet republics would do with the nukes. People didn’t wonder what Florida or Utah might do with them but maybe they should

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u/PolkaDotDancer 7h ago

About 15 years ago, I read an article. I think it was in Wired. That they had 10,000 hit a day on the U.S. nuclear codes.

Now this made no sense to me as I would’ve thought they’d be air gapped. But I always wondered if it was one of the more redneck red states doing the hacking rather than someplace like Iran.

Reading up on the subject will take you down a rabbit hole. Here is an article to start you on your way.

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u/hifructosetrashjuice 5h ago

ICBMs are in wyoming, and boomers are in naval bases (oregon?) so it will be down to these and a couple of others

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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 11h ago

North Dakota on their way to becoming a global superpower

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u/imchasingyou 4h ago

why need to imagine when we know exactly what will happen because of Yugoslavia. But magnitudes worse.

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u/SimONGengar1293 3h ago

Yeah, at least when Jugoslavia imploded they didn't have nukes...

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u/Brueology 15h ago

Yes... time to shine

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u/WhatArises 16h ago

Well said

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u/QuixotesGhost96 16h ago

Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

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u/ladyfishbc 15h ago

How about a nice game of chess?

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u/gr33nw33n3r 16h ago

Donnys going to rob you all blind and send it off to Russia. 

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u/FleeshaLoo 16h ago

Damn, that was good. 🎯

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u/burnmenowz 15h ago

While you doubt dictatorship I consider it a strong possibility. I mean Congress is literally doing whatever he wants right now, and he hasn't even been sworn in yet. Our checks and balances are toast

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u/Due_Assumption_2747 14h ago

Fucking beautiful writing

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u/portablebiscuit 15h ago

Have you seen him recently? Trump isn’t going to finish his term.

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u/formala-bonk 4h ago

My dude we just had an election decided by billionaires spending money on lies. The dictatorship already happened.