• @[email protected]
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    2219 hours ago

    Sure, maybe they’d win the invasion easily, but can they win an occupation of a hostile populace for an indeterminate duration? The 21st Century repeatedly suggests the answer to that is “no, eh”.

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      34 hours ago

      occupation of people who are virtually indistinguishable at a glance. Just ask the Russians how that worked out in Eastern Ukraine, the only way they could ever secure the place was by killing pretty much everyone.

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      1018 hours ago

      …last i heard, canadian snipers outperform the finns…