>what is Pyrrhic Victory?

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Nigga “what is mad, what is mad??!!” But then doesn’t understand nuclear deterrence “China will go to war with America hehe!” No they won’t, they don’t want a nuclear war dumbass

China loses a war against America *easily*

Ah, you missed that I was using it to mock @Snake

Sorry, I'll be more direct next time

it might scratch America on the homefront, sure, but it isn't even comparable

@Snake

We have no need to nuke them. Here's a rough and dirty list of options. We can interdict their fuel supply (the magic go-juice that makes planes and tanks work) thousands of miles from their border. We could use SLCMs to wax all those military bases on artificial island (what I like to call point-targets with absolutely no possibility of civilian casualties)

@Coolitic In just about every way but Cyber, definitively

“I was just joking!!!1!1!”

Classic

cyber is finicky

"I was only pretending to be retarded"

yeah

fair

Kek

Imagine having no argument

Go on, continue

Ironic.

@Jym you see those are options, but my logic is that of the mafia. Someone takes your piece you take theirs. Also if someone steps out of line—make a example out of them

International relations and geopolitics isn’t a fun house

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Well I don’t know what to say to that

But for the most part I’m actually a isolationist

I know

And a pragmatist

Which is why it's impossible to have an discussion with you

If your approach is "Walk away"

Y'know, a discussion would be possible if you tried to understand his mindset

Then sure, lmao

His mindset being "Destroy our current position for no gain" @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck

I already know what it is.

My approach “walk away if it isn’t your business”

They did it. They outlawed memes.
https://nichegamer.com/2019/10/24/u-s-house-of-representatives-approve-of-anti-meme-case-act/

>I already know what it is
>doesn't know what it is

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You mean not just assault memes?!

That's what isolationism it @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck

@Wizard_of_The_West oh fuck

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Context, buddy.

@Jym

Oh I am talking about thug options. I mean recognize that China only dug itself out of being another 3rd world shithole by having access to global trade networks we control. In a war would we let them continue to do business anywhere? Would we let their container ships travel through water where we have overwhelming force?

Context being, we're going to let an enemy take our position? @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck

Yeah but he doesn’t understand my position, see he would have us protect the sea lanes of hostile nations like China while rooting for them in a conflict between us. That’s the scummy shit we’re dealing with @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck

@Nathan James 123 the enemy being some paper tiger in the far north?

A "paper" tiger that's expanding

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>inb4 "Saudi Arabia is funding your enemies"

I mean there's that as well

technically no

the govt isn't

Of course :))))

@Jym y’know if you really wanted to get evil about it, you could just say “we aren’t protecting chinas sea lanes anymore” then have a “mutiny” on one of the carrier strike groups that attacked Chinese ships “out of our control” or blame it on someone else

Put Chinese flags up on your own ships

>Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism
>but we shouldn't treat Russia like that
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/04/30/russia-is-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-but-dont-treat-it-that-way/

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You can add subverting elections into that as well

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That's like a year old

yes

the 2016 election?

Glad they did

Fuck Hillary

European ones as well

>inb4 the national security orgs said so, therefore it's true

ah right

Depends on who they put in power? Right wing nationalist? If so then yeah, go Russia

because National Security orgs are trustworthy about election meddling

And RT tells me there was no influence

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Russia must have a lot of time on its hands

>inb4 Russian Troll farms

Well, paying people to do it gives them a lot of time @Snake

@Snake

I doubt it would require anything that complex. My point being that in any sort of conflict they are so outmatched as to be irrelevant. Nathan really really wants CHina to be a threat because it would mean someone somewhere could contest us.

@Jym And: war

gotta love warmongers, amirite lads

>Russian Lobster Troll Farms

@Jym yeah but then we could avoid a lot of conflict if we blamed it on terrorists but it would actual be us

>Pissgate

>Steele Dossier

I mean if I had my way it would be hard to tell the difference to be quite honest

Are the Kurds all dead yet.

I was told they would all be dead by now

not yet

there's like a few dozen dead

No there is a cease fire

they've got a sizeable population in Iraq AFAIK

For some reason it backfired on Trump

LMAO @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck goes to show how pointless it is

>helping the commies

And he asked the VP to get a ceasefire

>>helping the commies

>Enemy of my enemy is my friend

>that's not always a workable solution

I suppose that might be a little too advanced for ideologues

>everybody I don't like is an ideologue

mfw

>that's not always a workable solution

this is literally the "Everybody I don't like is Hitler" meme

>Was working