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>Russia-Ukraine
>Azerbaijan-Armenia
What's the next weird post-Soviet war?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    transnistria probably but it's gonna be like a 2 day thing because nobody cares

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How come Moldova isn't already taking the opportunity to retake Transnistria right now? Seriously asking

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because Moldova is pretty much the only country in europe that could probably frick up such operation.
        Hells, probably Iceland could do it, and they have no army.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They're waiting for the Russian "peacekeepers" to go home as a "gesture of goodwill".

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Please no, I need to watch Sheriff beat Man U in europoor league first

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Sheriff
          Sheriff literally owns like 3/4 of Transnistria

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because Moldova is pretty much the only country in europe that could probably frick up such operation.
        Hells, probably Iceland could do it, and they have no army.

        What if Romania annexes Moldova peacefully then just keeps going into transnigeria?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          IIRC the Romanians are mixed on the idea of reunion because Moldavia is so shit-poor. Even for Romanians. Yowch.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Goes to show that almost everything the soviet hand touched grows into a poor, dilapitated and corrupt shithole

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            And Moldavians are mixed on the reunion with troonystria for the same reason.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Moldovans are not only poor, they're corrupt beyond imagination. They might be the only people who are unironically right when they say life was better under communism.

            Also, more than the economic reasons, Romanians aren't very giddy about the idea of unification because Moldova has a very large pro-russian (or straight up russian) population, while most Romanians don't exactly view ruskies in a positive light, to say the least.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              A overlooked reason why unification isn't that popular is that Moldova has a minority of Christian Turks that enjoy autonomy rights, while the Romanian constitution doesn't allow autonomous regions to be created and they don't want to make one for the bozgors.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >They might be the only people who are unironically right when they say life was better under communism
              There's also the Russians, only because other ethnic groups carried them hard during the USSR times.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Crossing the Dniester is especially hard for a country with virtually no army like Moldova.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Moldova is so poor and badly equipped they could actually lose against the few forces Russia has there. Plus the land itself is not really worth the effort.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Does Moldova really want it back? Might they cede it or part of it to Ukraine?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Poland - Belarus

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Georgia and Belarus

      Belarus civil war, this time without Russia to rescue the top potato

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Potato man will flee to Russia and replace Putin

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not really, theres zero interest here in engaging Belarus and potato master is smart enough not to stir the pot. If anything he'll be pressured to retire, some shitty elections and/or a color revolution will happen that won't change much and germans will fast track them to EU because they're le democratic now.

      Russia vs. Russia

      this

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not gonna happen, but I'm really curious what Russia would do if Poland actually invaded Belarus.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They've been saying that Belarus would be considered part of the russian territory in case of any attack aka they'd use nukes. It's part of their military agreement.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And Russia is well known for keeping their promises, respecting agreements and not making idle threats.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Cry

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Belarus already tried last year with their most elite troops

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      not really, when ukies finish kacaps then agrofhurer have to flee or get killed. On ukraine you got belarussian soldiers, in poland there are in training more belarussian soldiers too.

      here for example for women training in poland for revolution on belarus.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Georgia and Belarus

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I was always of the opinion that Gorbachev didn't take down the USSR without a civil war - he just delayed it a couple decades. Funny how he died just as his "greatest achievement" began falling apart in front of him.

    I imagine a number of breakaway republics in Russia will form.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      More like how he "died". Awful covid complication of two to the back of the head.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Russia vs. Russia

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >People who convinced Putin
      So he's calling out Putin but pretending to blame others?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think he's throwing the FSB under the bus

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I imagine criticizing Putin publicly needs a certain rhetorical dance in order to not be immediately gulag'd or get a polonium pellet shot into your calf

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, that's part of the propaganda
        They've started changing the narrative but it's still clear that they are never allowed to criticize or threaten Putin's power
        Even though that guy is on the surface critical of Putin's actions, he blames everybody except Putin
        The host even asks him again to reiterate the idea to the Russians watching at home
        >People convinced Putin to go full moron in Ukraine
        >Are you sure these people exist?
        >Of course, our dear leader was betrayed by incompetents

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          When Putin is gone they'll blame him for everything too. Especially when the new guy ends up doing the same shit.
          These goddamn snow Black folk never change.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this

            >As soon as Lenin died, it turned out that the second person in the party, Comrade Trotsky, was a traitor. Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin and Stalin overthrew Trotsky and expelled him from the USSR. But a couple of years later it turned out that Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin were also enemies and pests. Then the valiant comrade Heinrich Yagoda arrested them. A little later, Yagoda was arrested as an enemy agent by Yezhov. But a couple of years later it turned out that Yezhov was not a comrade, but an ordinary traitor and an enemy agent. And Yezhov was arrested by Beria. After Stalin's death, everyone realized that Beria was also a traitor. Then Zhukov arrested Beria. But soon Khrushchev learned that Zhukov was an enemy and a conspirator. And he exiled Zhukov to the Ural. And a little later it was revealed that even Stalin himself was an enemy, a pest and a traitor. And with him, most of the Politburo. Then Stalin was taken out of the mausoleum, and the politburo was dispersed by honest party members led by Khrushchev. Several years passed and it turned out that Khrushchev was a voluntarist, a crook, an adventurer and an enemy. Then Brezhnev sent Khrushchev to retire. Soon Brezhnev died, and it turned out that he was a pest and the cause of stagnation. Then there were two more, whom no one even had time to remember. But then the young, energetic Gorbachev came to power. And it turned out that the whole party was a party of pests and enemies, but he will fix everything now. It was then that the USSR collapsed. And Gorbachev turned out to be an enemy and a traitor.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Slavs are completely incapable of doing anything that isn't slaughter and subjugate each other.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >~~*slavs*~~

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >slavs
                >russians

                Pick one

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Good tsar, bad boyars

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Exactly. He knows you can't criticize the Tsar, but it may be permissible to criticize his "advisers."

          No no, anon. The tzar is allways right, it's the advisors who are scum - they lied to him, they are the ones who are at fault.

          they use the same technique under the Tsar.

          the Tsar is chosen by god and can never be wrong, its always his advisors who are wrong

          Putin is "clever" enough to distance himself slightly from any decision he makes, and as long as you live in Russia it's best not to call out Putin directly, but instead aim at the convenient scapegoat that is always there.

          Pity Tsar Monke doesn't follow Nicky's lead and take personal command of this "special operation".

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Exactly. He knows you can't criticize the Tsar, but it may be permissible to criticize his "advisers."

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No no, anon. The tzar is allways right, it's the advisors who are scum - they lied to him, they are the ones who are at fault.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        they use the same technique under the Tsar.

        the Tsar is chosen by god and can never be wrong, its always his advisors who are wrong

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No no, anon. The tzar is allways right, it's the advisors who are scum - they lied to him, they are the ones who are at fault.

          Exactly. He knows you can't criticize the Tsar, but it may be permissible to criticize his "advisers."

          this is not some russia-specific thing, it's the only way authoritarian regimes can admit mistakes. when your right to rule is based on always being right, any change in direction must be preceded by offerings of blood in the form of scapegoats acting in the interests of the enemy

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Putin is "clever" enough to distance himself slightly from any decision he makes, and as long as you live in Russia it's best not to call out Putin directly, but instead aim at the convenient scapegoat that is always there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So fricking moronic, the only reason this is happening is Putin filled every level of his government with a bunch of brown nosing sycophants who told him exactly what he wanted to hear. Putin made his own bed.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's a cycle.
        Putin, like any other leader, makes decisions based on the info he is handed. Being an autocrat he has created an atmosphere were telling truth to power is undesirable, lest you become the fall guy for a certain frick up or the person that does get the hammer brought down upon themselves then uses the system to hurt you for exposing their frick up. Combine this with corruption, bribery and all that other jazz and you have one leader who is disconnected from reality and thus makes idiotic decisions. So yes, I would say that the people underneath Putin lied to him, but this is the end result of his stupidity.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's even an expression to describe this kind of propoganda tonal shift in some of the ex-soviet countries. Goes something like: The Tsar is good, it's the Boyars are that a bad.
        It's a pretty old expression, i think. Still applicable today

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Huh. When the first vatnik doomposts came out, I thought it was the oligarchs getting and siloviks tired of Putin and starting a campaign to make him look like a b***h so they could replace him. But this would suggest that maybe Putin is doing this first so he could Night of the Long Knives his powerstructures.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Civil war kino incoming

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Serbia - Albania
    Are you even paying attention?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Serbia and Kosovo unironically

      Don't make me cum please

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No? Explain

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He is moron mixed up Kosovo with Albania.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nah not gonna happen

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is already brewing, so I'm betting on that.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Aren't Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan literally gearing up to go to war with each other right this moment?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Serbia and Kosovo unironically

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wouldn't happen. Most they will do is negotiations for land swap and population transfer for serbian outside North Kosovo.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Estonia will finally close the cauldron.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatse_Boot

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Widespread internal Russian political violence. Never ending bombing attacks on the FSB from both ultranationalist and leftists. Daily street-fighting in Moscow. Half a dozen groups racing to see who can -ack Putin first. Chechnya and Dagestan flair up again as a dozen new ethnic separatists groups with leaders like Ivan Khan of Siberia county.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Kharkiv is still showed as Russian controlled in OPs pic

    Fricking vatniks, update your garbage.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is the most aesthetic frontline we got in this war, eventually the Russians won't control anything on either side of the border, just enjoy the picture

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Russia - Russia
    Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Russia-Russia

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Post-Russian warlord period is going to be so fricking kino. Even if you remove all of the ethnic and religious separatists from the picture. Just imagine the neo-reds fighting the neo-whites, only this time with loose nuclear weapons and neo-nazis thrown into the mix.
      From the perspective of aesthetics and accelerationism, Putin really is /ourguy/.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I hope with Dugin's efforts on spreading eurasianism we will get second Ungern

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Georgia is having a referendum about taking back territory stolen by Russia in 2008. It'll pass. You're about to see Georgia declare war on Russia.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      we'll supply them too

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'd really like to see something happening in belarus.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lukaschenko makes his move and takes over Russia

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Poland and Lithuania announce Operation Potato Freedom and invade Belarus to restore legitiamite government and put the female Hikikomori in power
    >Poland proceeds to fill the Stalin line with Cowshit, burns down the KGB building and lynches Luka by hanging him upside down at the Minsk KFC
    >Every Soviet Statue is melted down to create a giant middle finger on the Russian border
    >Tranzania starves as bad as Tanzania, the last few survivors agreeing to hand over the territory in return for a bowl of porridge
    >NATO raises eyebrow at the Serbs, who unironically understand everything and finally agree that only the northern part of Kosovo will stay with them
    >The Caucasus begins Chechnya 3: This Time it's Comical.
    >Georgian army goes literally insane and attacks Abkongo and South Orangutania without Presidential orders - he finds out after both taken
    >Khadyrov beheading video is uploaded to /misc/
    >Dagestan joins in to escape the cringe
    >Circassia wants to pull of Israel 2 and makes a go for their own independence, begins a self-defence genocide of Russians along the border
    >Kazakhstan taps out and says they're leaving CSTO
    >RACE WAR between Kazakhs and Russians in the country
    >Kyrgistan and Tajikistan agree to settle their issues through violence
    >Uzbeks continue to use their kids as slave labour
    >Shoigu gets fired, leads Tuvan independence rebellion in Asia
    >Komi Republic secedes, demanding to marry Tadano
    >America and China prepare a joint nuclear attack to obliterate the Russian stockpile before gypsies waltz in and steal it

    It's depressing how I only slightly exaggerate.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You forgot Finland.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >he finds out after both taken
      Our president is a woman though

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I can only get so erect. The sooner Russia is wiped out the better.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Abkongo and South Orangutania
      >Kyrgistan and Tajikistan agree to settle their issues through violence
      absolute zozzle

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't Kazakhstan already in the process of leaving? Or did /k/ lie to me again?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I mean, it doesn't matter if Kazakhstan leaves CSTO or not. The dollar-store NATO is now worth less than the carbon dioxide exhaled by Putin when he told Pashinyan to get fricked.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think that was Armenia. Kazakhstan is in the CSTO but aren't committed enough to actually do anything the Russians ask of them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Komi Republic secedes, demanding to marry Tadano
      you think we won't notice, didn't you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Komi Republic secedes, demanding to marry Tadano
      fricking kekd

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Georgia is unironically doing a referendum on whether they should attack Russia.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *post-Russian

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Serbia - Kosovo (Again)
    NATO is instantly dragged in because of KFOR and Serbia gets bombed again

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Russia can't even defeat the European equivalent of Guatemala, what kind of moron would turn to them for "defense"?

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What's the next weird post-Soviet war?
    USA - Afghanistan

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Round 2: Manifest Destiny Boogaloo
      No regular forces will be sent, but if you can hold a homestead in Afghanistan it's legally yours.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What's the next weird post-Soviet war?
    Putin versus Putsch

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tajikistan-Uzbekistan
    Baltics-Belarus
    Russian civil war

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    china and north korea rush to claim valdivostok

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Israel is about to destroy Syria since Russia is pulling out
    USA might do… something… about Cuba and Venezuela

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Venezuela is too much of a clusterfrick; we'll just stick to some sanctions and the occassional arrest as long as things stay thr same. Cuba is probably going to get soft powered as frick and their tourism industry heavily integrated with its US counterparts. Expect a parallel, grey economy tolerated because it keeps the commies in hard currency and gives the US backdoor influence.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What's the next weird post-Soviet war?
    The canada-mexico conflic of 2023

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think this has been mentioned before but Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
    Maybe Uzbekistan will finally sperg out on all of its neighbors.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Kosovo and Bosnian war are more like frozen conflicts than resolved. All you need is some ethnic pogroms and shit could pop off again.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Kosovo maybe but apart from media panicking and russians pushing a pipe dream there really is no chance the serbs could try anything without getting their roach ass swatted immediatly by EUFOR and NATO directly. They may have had a chance but now with the whole Ukraine debacle for Russia theres no way in hell theyd be able to pull it off, especially with dementia Joe in office...if he heard the Serbs are starting shit in Bosnia hed think its 1995 and elections are upcoming so hed bomb the shit out of them without a second thought.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Serbia - Kosovo (Again)
      NATO is instantly dragged in because of KFOR and Serbia gets bombed again

      Serbia and Kosovo unironically

      Serbia - Albania
      Are you even paying attention?

      Even though Kosovo is landlocked and has no resources, Serbs are obsessed with that patch of dirt instead of focusing on their own country. Kosovo only declared independence in February 2008 after MonteBlack did the same in June 2006, and that was supposed to be Serbia's kin and ally!!

      Majority of Montenegrins since then hate Serbs too because they're always stirring shit. There's been renewed tensions in MonteBlack since last year because the new government is too close to Serbia.
      > https://france24.com/en/europe/20210905-monteBlack-police-clash-with-protestors-as-ethnic-tensions-flare-over-serbian-church-ceremony

      Russian agents were arrested this August spying on weapons plants and public infrastructure in Albania.
      > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/europe/albania-says-it-arrested-russians-and-a-ukrainian-suspected-of-spying-on-a-weapons-factory.html
      > https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/54875264

      There was a Russian-made drone that crashed in Croatia in March just over two weeks into the Ukraine invasion, possibly flown from Serbia or Transnistria.
      > https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60709952
      > https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/croatia-criticizes-nato-crash-russian-made-drone-83405534

      There's tensions in Kosovo because Serbs don't want to use proper license plates and are using that of all things to flare tensions.
      > https://voanews.com/a/kosovo-delays-license-plate-plan-after-border-tensions/6681341.html

      In Bosnia, the Serbs have created a fully parallel state that's closer to Serbia than it is to the Bosnian central government. In recent years they've even been boycotting federal institutions in Bosnia.

      Russia and Serbia's ultimate long-term goal is for Russia to merge with Serbia, taking over the lands in-between, thereby Russia finally borders the warm waters of the Mediterranean. This is what the Russian Empire had tried to do between the mid 1700s and early 1900s.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        moron

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I see many dead Chetniks in your future.
          You'll wish you had it as easy as the Vatniks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Remind me again why NATO doesn't just let Serbians sort out the islamist problem once and for all?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Remind me again why NATO doesn't just let Serbians sort out the islamist problem once and for all?

          Montenegrins and Croatians are not even Muslims, you imbecile.
          Majority of Albanians aren't even religious, and 1/5 are Christian.

          The "Islamist" bogeyman in the Balkans, means about as much as Serbs and their imaginary war against Turks. Yet, in front of actual Turks, the Serbs are always good little boys. There's fewer Jihadists from the Balkans than the EU, and even the ones from the Balkans don't actually do shit in Europe but go over to Syria or elsewhere.

          Kosovo is Serbian. Unironically cradle of serbian people culturaly. Albanians stand no chance.

          > Kosovo is Serbian. Unironically cradle of serbian people culturaly. Albanians stand no chance.

          Kosovo has NATO troops in it right now, and Albania and North Macedonia are both NATO members. Around 1/3 of North Macedonia is ethnic Albanian.

          Serbia touches Kosovo again, the Chetniks will wish they were as lucky as the Vatniks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Kosovo is Serbian. Unironically cradle of serbian people culturaly. Albanians stand no chance.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Kosovo is Serbian. Unironically cradle of serbian people culturaly
          So what you're saying is Serbroaches need to be wiped out once and for all?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Kosovo is Serbian. Unironically cradle of serbian people culturaly
          So jamming a bottle up your ass is Serb culture?

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hell, did the Ethiopian civil war ever end? That one has a pretty kekworthy history.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Tigray rebels are pushed back to their core territory. Back in 2020 and 2021 it looked liked the government would fall, the rebels were on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. President Abiy declared full conscription and handed out guns on the street and it actually worked to turn the tide of the war.

      It's shocking that after 2 years we have so little information and photos from this war.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Don't forget the government purchased drones, which are kind of a game changer since the rebels don't really have much in the way of responding to them.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do the Ukrainians have Svatove or not?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >...hors de combat...

      Can't be calling them that. That's an actual term of war in regards to how they're to be treated. They're not non-combatants, they're just cowardly, incompetent combatants.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Hors de combat (French: [ɔʁ də kɔ̃ba]; lit.'out of combat') is a French term used in diplomacy and international law to refer to persons who are incapable of performing their combat duties during war. Examples include persons parachuting from their disabled aircraft, as well as the sick, wounded, detained, or otherwise disabled. Persons hors de combat are normally granted special protections according to the laws of war, sometimes including prisoner-of-war status, and therefore officially become non-combatants.

        >Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, unlawful combatants hors de combat are granted the same privilege and to be treated with humanity while in captivity but unlike lawful combatants, they are subject to civilian trial and punishment (which may include capital punishment if the detaining power has such a punishment for the crimes they have committed).

        have a nice day

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No. That's a real cheeseball map. There are no Ukrainian formations East of the Oskil River between the Russian border and Isium.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Likely not.
      Ukrainian forward elements pulled back days ago because they were unsure if they're not stretching their logistics too much.
      Same for Kremena from what I've heard.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Kyrgyzstan vs Tajikistan apparently if the border skirmish the other day is anything to go by.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the Latvian reclamation of Ruhnu island, mashallah

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Georgia, Norway, Estonia, Poland, and maybe Kazakhstan declairing war on Russia. China jumping in at the end to seize the eastern regions.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Russia-Russia

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So when do we recognize all of these conflicts and the inevitable expanding conflicts as WW3? Are we waiting for China to finally ape out and go after Taiwan?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the world wars are all about great powers, and until you have a significant portion of them participating, it's not a world war. at present those great powers are china, the united states, japan, russia (for now), germany, france, the united kingdom (for now) and india. this roster is likely to change soon, but for now, if your war doesn't at least have, like, 5 of them... it's not a world war.
      even china, the US and japan squaring off wouldn't be a world war, it would just be a large one. bring in india and russia, then you have a decent case for "world war".
      a bunch of random wars unfolding across the world isn't a world war or even necessarily a precursor to one. outside of the last few decades of unrivaled peace, it's actually just the norm

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the world wars are all about great powers, and until you have a significant portion of them participating, it's not a world war. at present those great powers are china, the united states, japan, russia (for now), germany, france, the united kingdom (for now) and india.

        What makes India a WORLD POWER?
        What POWER do they yield beyond Bhutan? They struggle to even yield any power over Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives or Bangladesh.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          they have an enormous economy (5th by gdp, 3rd by ppp), population (2nd) and military (worst of the great powers but not much worse than russia's), they're a nuclear power, they have a space program (a legit one, not a token one like turkey), etc.
          i'm not saying they're on the level of china or even germany, but i think it'd be tough to say they're not a great power considering they're one of the largest and most powerful countries on the planet

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            this post smells like curry

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              cope
              india is already more powerful than russia, they are without a doubt a great power

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >india is already more powerful than russia
                I don't doubt that, but you don't get to decide if they're a great power because they simply aren't, but maybe soon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                how is the 3rd largest economy with the 2nd largest population and one of the largest militaries on the planet, with nukes and a space program, not a great power? especially when there are only a small handful of countries that are more powerful

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >how is the 3rd largest economy
                India is 6th, not 3rd btw.
                https://www.worlddata.info/largest-economies.php

                Japan, Germany, UK are all ahead of India. France is 7th.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Great power (god I fricking hate these dick waving terms) implies power projection capabilities. What does India exactly have to advance, lets say, into Inbredistan or even the Himalayas which would be near border conflicts like Russia and Ukraine.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nta, I also kek at calling India a world power but if you wanna stretch:
            >5th largest GDP
            >2nd largest population
            >nukes
            Those 3 alone makes them too big to ignore altogether. They have no force projection but could definitely, at the very least brawl with China long enough to significantly tie them up on one front

            Pakistan has a large population and nukes too, and they're definitely not a world power outside of that.

            India is ranked 6th in terms of economy, and Italy and Canada are 8 and 9. South Korea is 10.
            India isn't a world power. They're a large market.

            how is the 3rd largest economy with the 2nd largest population and one of the largest militaries on the planet, with nukes and a space program, not a great power? especially when there are only a small handful of countries that are more powerful

            Here's a question: Between Turkey and India, who do you say is a bigger "world power"??

            Turkey's population is large (85M) but not near the billions. In fact, I don't know why ultra large populations are even being counted here as a point. Once you cross the ~50M and ~100M thresholds, any number beyond that is irrelevant. Turkey economy is still 19 in the world, but they actually produce a lot of shit across multiple fields in material terms. India struggles to make a simple assault rifle.

            India struggles to fight border wars against their neighbors. Turkey places multiple bases across multiple countries, and wages conventional and unconvential wars. Neither India and China can make a war erupt beyond their immediate surrounding, but Turkey could in multiple states they're not even bordering.
            The only reason Turkey doesn't have nukes is because they're not even trying because that would face backlash.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >pakistan
              has 1/8th the population and 1/10th the economy of india, the two aren't remotely comparable from an overall power perspective
              >once you cross the ~50M and ~100M thresholds, any number beyond that is irrelevant
              blatantly false and moronic to the point of discrediting every other thing in your post. at this point you're trying to argue that having a larger economy and larger population somehow don't make you a more powerful country.
              for some reason you're confusing a country's ability to intervene in conflicts as their level of power. by that metric, the UK is the second most powerful country on earth and china is a lesser power than france
              as much as i wish that were true, it's not.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >by that metric, the UK is the second most powerful country on earth
                It's certainly top 5. Maybe even top 3.

                >and china is a lesser power than france
                France has nukes too. Isn't that one of your points??
                France wields influence across parts of Africa, and most of the EU, while China wields influence across majority of the world. So they are both more influential than India. They are both world powers, India isn't.

                Those 3 states, regardless of their astronomically different population sizes, each wield REAL power. India doesn't.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                this is assuming that a country *must* be an interventionist one that wants to meddle in the affairs of other countries in order to be a great power, which i don't think is true at all.
                the fact that france loves dicking around in west africa doesn't suddenly negate the fact that their economy and population are both far smaller than india's

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're doing a lot of mental gymnastics. France is a world power. India is not. You have yet to convince me otherwise. All I hear is that India is a large market.

                No, a country doesn't need to be interventionist per se. China does very little of that, and so does Japan. Yet, China is substantially more influential because their manufacturing and investment prowess can easily sway or bully anyone into listening to their demands.

                Japan is not a major world power but it's comparatively more than India. Again, because their manufacturing and investment prowess can sway people (and we know they have the capability to take over weaker countries well beyond their shores if they wanted to).

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            THANK YOU SIR!

            Superpower 2022

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Nta, I also kek at calling India a world power but if you wanna stretch:
          >5th largest GDP
          >2nd largest population
          >nukes
          Those 3 alone makes them too big to ignore altogether. They have no force projection but could definitely, at the very least brawl with China long enough to significantly tie them up on one front

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >he doesn't know
    This train has no brakes

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/14/clash-erupts-between-kyrgyzstan-and-tajikistan-border-guards

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Buryat insurrection to join Mongolia, Mongols themselves try to deny they have anything to do with it, China eagerly funds and equips the proxy conflict.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    China vs Taiwan and Greece vs turkey its going to happen.

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