Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.

High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia’s Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows extensive damage.

A crater approximately 60 meters wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, along with visible damage in the surrounding area that was not present in images taken earlier in the month.

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    it’s a pretty bold claim to say that EVERY nation with a military has tried to invade

    It’s only the slightest exaggeration..

    Between 1915 and 1920, they were invaded by: United Kingdom, France, US, Japan, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, China, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and I’m sure I missed a few more.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russia_intervention

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_intervention

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_intervention

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        1 month ago

        The point was that it’s silly to try to divide up and assign individual responsibility for the achievements of the USSR 30-100+ years ago when those achievements were only possible because Ukraine and Russia were part of a greater whole.

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          1 month ago

          Considering what has become of Russia and Ukraine since the fall of the USSR, I’d say that Ukraine was just getting sucked dry by the elites in Moscow while they were a part of it.

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      1 month ago

      Czechoslovakia certainly didn’t invade in the traditional sense, because:

      • The troops were there before the bolshevik revolution with the agreement of the Russian government and on the way out of Russia when they were attacked.
      • Czechoslovakia didn’t exist yet.
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      It’s kinda wild to claim that the US invaded Russia when they literally only sent one contigent of troops. That’s like saying Canada invaded Afghanistan.

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          Ig technically, but it was really the US that invaded Afghanistan. Considering their allies that sent significantly smaller forces and did not make the decision to start the military activity as fellow invaders is disingenuous at best.

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            1 month ago

            In what way is it disingenuous to frame Canada sending thousands of soldiers to a foreign nation to carry out a war as an invasion?