So putin ran out of all the ammunition Iran and North Korea could sell him, and was reduced to launching a 40 year old cold war ICBM at Ukraine (except probably not because they no longer work) and this is viewed as a sign of _strength_?
If he was crashing passenger airliners into Ukraine's cities A) each one would be significantly cheaper, B) Russia has more of them, C) they were last demonstrated to work this century, D) the people who know how to maintain them didn't all retire 15 years ago.
https://mstdn.jp/@landley/113531270690461358
Perun agrees the Russian "ICBM" basically wasn't, in his review of the first 1000 days of Russia's 3 day special operation:
youtu.be/vf2vSoWsmgI
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I love this post so much, I'm going to frame it.
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@landley I keep telling folks all his weapons are rotted and all his threats are bluffs and the optimal move would be leveling every military manufacturing capable facility in Russia and […]
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