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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why does it say this post has 16 comments but I see none?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, sure, let’s escalate this thing. And spread radiation across half of Europe in the process! And kill a million civilians in a slow, agonizing way!

    Only one man really needs to die for this thing to end.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Dirty bombs are a meme weapon that would barely cause damage except psychologically. If it spreads everywhere it’s too diluted to do much and if it remains concentrated then the scope is too small to affect many people. Their sole advantage is that people are terrified of them because they are ignorant about how bad they are as weapons. So no a dirty bomb is not spreading across Europe and killing hundreds of thousands of people, a hypothetical dirty bomb is literally nothing compared to the thousands of nuclear tests, Chernobyl release, Kyshtym disaster etc. that did not have death tolls anywhere remotely near a million. Even the actual atomic bomb strikes on populated cities of Japan combined did not kill a million.

    This is not to say it would be good for Ukraine to use dirty bombs, absolutely not. Negligible damage to Russia except for causing a massive scare to their people that would be condemned globally makes that a terribly counterproductive option to undertake vs. keeping on bombing refineries and so on.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    "Yeah, sure, let's escalate this thing" says man without minding that for Ukraine it is as escalated as it can escalate at the moment.

    This is all to say that I'm with you: let's escalate this thing and get us a real war going, it's awfully boring as it is around these parts. Let's all meet at Burger Town.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That’s like the worst of both worlds because it both barely does any damage to Russia’s war effort but people would think it was devastating to civilians

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You don't target civilians. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand?

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