echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

It's especially pathetic seeing European right wing politicians use the phrase. It's always fun to challenge them to define it because they can't.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

Doctor who has a lot of guest writers and it shows. There's some really good stuff and then there's other episodes which really didn't need to be made.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I'm convinced that that was just something that they decided to tack on to as an afterthought because it doesn't really make sense to view it in that context.

Especially if you include the sequels.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah which is why they're currently so twitchy.

Of course if they weren't so aggressive Norway and especially Finland wouldn't have joined NATO. That's what I mean about it being a stupid military doctrine, it sort of made sense back in the Soviet era but it has not been updated for the late 20th century, let alone the 21st.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

See that is what Linux is missing, all their programmers are high, not drunk.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Aha yes, Teaching.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Russia's current military doctrine is to not allow any Western countries to border their territory (utterly stupid military doctrine but that is Soviet era thinking for you).

Kazakhstan isn't a Western country so there's no need to attack them. The problem Russia has is all the oligarchs stole the military funding so they now don't really have anything except a lot of meat that they can throw into the grinder. That sort of works in Ukraine where NATO aren't prepared to fully deploy, but that changes if Russia attacks them directly. Then the Western military industrial complex will swing into action and God knows what'll come out the other side.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If some kind of plausally deniable local insurgency was being backed by Russia, NATO wouldn't need to worry they would just let the local authorities handle it. If they started turning up with drones, rocket launchers, and military vehicles it would be suspicious so they would have to keep things small scale and if it's small scale the local military will be able to cope.

I'm just imagining a bunch of right-wing nutcases running around with AKs, they would probably shoot their own feet off.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago (15 children)

All that "next countries" are NATO countries. It would not end well for Russia.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Sir, may I recommend the Volkswagen, this model it has greater surface area.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

He hasn't got a licence plate so clearly he's now on trackable.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this guy trying to suggest that oxygen is bad? In his case I would agree that it's probably not a habit worth maintaining but generally speaking I tend to find oxygen to be rather agreeable

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