• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 hours ago

    Hitting London with a ballistic missile would bring the rents down. Maybe this is a good thing.

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      1 hour ago

      Well it would likely put them up, seeing as it would remove supply but, if you know Londoners you’ll know it won’t do a damn thing about demand.

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        1 hour ago

        At least they have good public transportation. But yeah, anyone making less than £100,000 a year, good luck finding anywhere with a train commute of under an hour.

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          We moved into a home county. I grew up in London, but it’s just too expensive. We could have gotten a place there, but it would not be a good one, not be in a good area and likely be beyond our personal budget (the banks would give us the money, we wouldn’t accept it).

          Not regretting it at all really.

  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Please do it Putin. WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse, Poland’s chomping at the bit for the excuse and we really want to see how long it takes them to rush Moscow.

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    2 hours ago

    Reminder that World War 2 had a gradual unfolding of declarations of war across several months or longer, depending on how you want to fuck that pig. I think we’re already in the onset of WWIII, in some sense.

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      That’s terrifying because WW3 risks the use of nuclear weapons and every model of nuclear exchange that has been run always escalates to mutual assured destruction with billions dead and the end of civilization.

      I just finished listening to the audiobook of Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Highly recommend it.

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      42 minutes ago

      Are we in the Spanish Civil War type pre-phase of WWII?

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      The thing is, if NATO is worth anything at all. Hitting a NATO country would bring a lot of declarations in a very short order. It would get very WW3, very quickly.

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        1 hour ago

        That’s assuming Europe wasn’t economically stretched already, and America didn’t have an incoming president who wasn’t more interested in fellating Putin.

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          Even if there’s financial concerns in Europe. We DO have reasonably strong airforces, modern weaponry and several nuclear enabled countries. I think it would be a big risk to take in their current position.

          My main concern is Trump tries to coerce Europe to leave Ukraine to fight alone. It all depends on how much in Putin’s pocket he is.

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    41 minutes ago

    This is “threatens the uk” :

    “We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”

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      It would make sense to take out the UK first. In recent history, the rest of Europe just roll on their back and surrender or get taken by force.

      Take out your only realistic competition first. Genius move I’d say.