Seems like reasonable demand
Of course, for fairness sake that would also mean no Russian troops in any russian countries bordering the West
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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He is trying. Just needs a bigger grinder to feed them all into.
Of course, his demands are impossible. That way, he can just point to everyone else and say “see? They’re prolonging the war!“
I really wish people would stop, acting shocked and surprised when Putin and Trump do shit like this. We have known, for decades, that both of them are insane monsters. Do something!
Trump might be insane but Putin is far from it. He’s been locked in a battle for the survival of his regime (and by extension his life) for decades. He’s extremely savvy at playing the political game in Russia.
Trump basically shoots from the hip all the time and thinks only his relationships with people and his deal-making matter. He’s a sitting duck for a manipulator like Putin.
That way, he can just point to everyone else and say “see? They’re prolonging the war!“
Luckily this only works for two year iods and the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
Which is who is in charge of a lot of places, but you'd think normal people would never listen for a second.
Russia is not a serious country. The demands are essentially a shitpost. It's one of the most delusional things I've seen in a while.
So, it's pretty clear Russia plans to invade other neighbors, right?
Given how this one's going, that doesn't seem like a great plan.
It's a pretty safe bet.
Oh yeah, it's the county clerk's office and they're the Blues Brothers.
So Russia wants vassal states of everyone on their border. Just fucking try it with Finland. Go on, it will be funny.
I'd be more worried about the Poles.
All the Eastern Europeans know that Russia is not to be trusted. There is a reason all of them pushed so hard to join NATO.
Oh, definitely. The Polish have a score to settle though.
One day an old jewish pole, living in Warsaw, has his last light bulb burn out. To get a new one he'll have to stand in line for two hours at the store (and they'll probably be out by the time he gets there), so he goes up to his attic and starts rummaging around for an old oil lamp he vaguely remembers seeing.
He finds the old brass lamp in the bottom of a trunk that has seen better days. He starts to polish it and (poof!) a genie appears in cloud of smoke.
"Hoho, Mortal!" says the genie, stretching and yawning, "For releasing me I will grant you three wishes."
The old man thinks for a moment, and says, "I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his mongol hordes, march to the Polish border, and then decide he doesn't want the place and march back home."
"No sooner said than done!" thunders the genie. "Your second wish?"
"Ok. I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his mongol hordes, march to the Polish border, and then decide he doesn't want the place and march back home."
"Hmmm. Well, all right. Your third wish?"
"I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his --"
"Okokok. Right. What's this business about Genghis Khan marching to Poland and turning around again?"
The old man smiles. "He has to pass through Russia six times."
Every neighbour of theirs has a score to settle. Russia has never been a good neighbour to any of us.
so, NATO's surrender then.. as a condition of a cease-fire with Ukraine.. which isn't a NATO member.. which Putin invaded ostensibly to prevent it from joining NATO. right...
sure, I think we can do that. no Western troops, no problem! we'll just give them each a few dozen hydrogen bombs, and call it even.
A few dozen hydrogen bombs each? Sir, this is Europe! We won’t have such uncivilised weapons that could be used for discriminatory purposes in our beautiful continent.
No, the only solution is for every country in the EU, NATO, or bordering Russia to be equipped with a Project Sundial device. It’s the only way to preserve European unity.
If built and detonated, Sundial would have created a fireball up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter, instantly igniting everything within 400 kilometers (250 miles) and causing a magnitude 9 earthquake. It was thought that the explosion would lead to an apocalyptic nuclear winter, drastically lowering global temperatures and contaminating water sources, resulting in mass fatalities.
If detonated at an altitude of 28 miles (45 km) the Sundial device could ignite fires across an area the size of France.
The fuck is wrong with us?
that's 50s nuclear weapons development for ya
also probably didn't help that it's likely that Teller had autism and just wanted to make bigger bomb until he was removed from nuclear weapons design teams
so autism caused Musk to seig heil, and autism caused Teller to build doomsday devices. so basically Dr. Strangelove is autism's final form. (/s)
50s were also sorta time of finding out what practical limits were, but when Teller showed them 1000Mt device USAF decided that it's a bit too much, couple Mt is plenty. when USAF tells you it's too much boom you might have gone insane
other than that, Teller was a fucking asshole, he stole credit for other's people's work, he clinged to his own failed ideas against evidence (that makes him a shitty scientist), despised Carl Sagan, he was responsible for getting Oppenheimer out of Los Alamos, also a schemer and a rabid mccarthyist the entire time. so maybe you're onto something
if he was worse at physics he'd be probably setting acetylene bottles on fire in some field or something like this
The human desire to keep feeding the fire because big fire equals more awesome. But on a truly enormous scale.
There's the short story "A Colder War" by Charles Stross. Among other things, there's a reference to a real-life nuclear weapon concept called Project Pluto. In the story, it turns out it was built to try and kill Cthulhu.
So... maybe that's the goal of Sundial? Cthulhu would be a valid target for a weapon that ludicrous.
Otherwise, I agree. "The fuck is wrong with us" is the only valid conclusion.
I mean, there are people who want to pursue theoretical weapons, that would completely sterilize earth, if the theoretically possible concept could be proven to actually work. Only reason we really aren't is the impracticality of the research. So, if it were more practical an idea to research, we'd be on it.
the problem becomes size and amount of expensive materials, technically it's not even particularly interesting, all parts are there and some designs were tested when thermonuclear weapons were first developed
Yes with this, I was talking about weapons that theoretically could exist, but we don't know if what we think could work will, because just researching it isn't practical. However, if that weren't the case, we absolutely would be researching things like neutronium bombs, and such.
neither device was ever built or tested
I know, right?