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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

If Rushia has a Reddit, they would definitely have an r/OhNoConsequences with bots gleefully acting like they've taken down Goliath with a stone and sling and with finality

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Shooting down US assets rarely ends well for perps...

Russia knows this lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Remotes, though, are a different category of "assets." We still get more uppity about folks shooting things that have our people inside them. It's harder to get righteously indignant before the president when it's only a drone.

I'm not saying you're wrong; just... the bar is higher for an escalation in response. There isn't much more the US can do without becoming much more directly involved in the conflict. We're already providing material support, and what Ukraine is starting to need more than anything is bodies. Certainly, ordinance is critical, but Russia has vast, nearly depthless reserves of canon fodder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

They probably do.

ATACMS just annihilated multiple columns inside of Russia, and they're, not surprisingly, looking to push back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Maybe the US has some end of life tomahawks laying around with a Typhoon trailer. And maybe some more atacms. Or even JASSM.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Oh no not a drone

Compare and contrast to the crewed Russian surveillance airplane shot down recently

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shot down a US drone you say? Oh no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Let's wait and see what happened specifically. But I will say, the US does love their....proportional responses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

“Hey that response wasn’t very proportional.”

“Sure it was. You damaged our vessel and we blew the shit out of a big proportional of your entire navy in the space of one eight hour working day and then made you say you messed up and didn’t mean to shoot back or anything and we’re good now.”