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[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Zelensky is the strongest man in the world to be able to hold himself back from attacking these ass holes.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it would have certainly resulted in him being shot on the spot. The Secret Service would shoot anyone .

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder how long until the US is nuked? Or at least actually attacked, militarily.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

If you’re imagining some kind of first strike situation I think you’re barking up the ring tree. However, the US is extremely vulnerable economically.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

US didn't spent most of it's money on army for nothing. Doesn't matter if the army is as powerful as it says it is, the image is strong enough, so nobody will dare.
The only way it will crumble down is if they do "putin gambit", really attack someone, fail spectacularly at it, expose inability to do shit, and get 50 square kilometres of baren wasteland for it.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That’s the only way anyone can beat us

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you just described Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Didn't even get to keep 50 square kilometers of barren wasteland.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not really, no. US went there, destroyed a bunch of shit, played around for couple of decades, and went home. They didn't lose much (occasional humans don't count, who counts a bunch of kids with guns), that was basically a play so the ghouls can watch some people die, par for the course. US didn't lose anything substantial ever and never was in a war that was important for them ever since that one with Mexico.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think he should call Trump's bluff and send in a few dozen battle hardened Ukrainian troops with a few dozen drones and show Trump's entire nursing home and support staff how things work nowadays. We need to put together an anonymous block chain fund with the purpose of putting multi million bounties on the treason party, funded anonymously by small donors and build a reliable mechanism for people to anonymously, but truthfully claim the bounties. What our political contributions fail to do, crowd funding can do. All of the technology exists to make this happen, and it's one of the main appeals of crypto currencies. Large scale anonymous transactions. If I find out there's a billionaire Trump donating traitor or heritage foundation member near me, and I can get a basic Intel file and there's a 500K bounty on them, then shit. They better hug their money goodnight one last time. Just send an email from a burner/anon account to a recipient with the time of death rough location and wallet address before any news is released. If all the details add up then release the funds to the wallet.

Make it worth while and let rule#3 take effect:

"Number three, never trust nobody Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up Hoodied and masked up, shit, for that fast buck She be laying in the bushes to light that ass up"

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually love this idea of anonymous crowdfunding by the masses. But how could we make this happen? I guess it would have to be initiated from the Ukrainian government.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, the framework is already in place with crypto. The silk road ran for years and facilitated enormous amounts of illegal activity, and in the end who got in trouble? Like one fucking guy.

It's honestly no different than a bookie. You facilitate the transactions and keep a portion of the cut for each transaction. The key is keeping the payor, payee, and broker anonymous.

And no Ukraine wouldn't be involved in this, if anything the Swiss might be on board, or Panama

Sorry I misread: not crowdfunding assassinations, but the Ukrainian government and defence forces.