US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Stay safe Jim!

 

[Handyman]

Hey if you watch Deadliest Catch you know the Russians have been crossing the border pretty frequently the past few seasons. Now we know why ;^)

 

[Kepler]

The first and only time this was appropriate:

 

[Jimjamesak]

Well, there's a reason why they have F-22s, F-35s, and an Airborne division stationed in the state...

 

[psych]

So this is what Sarah Palin meant all those years ago…b-tch played the long game.

 

[French Rage]

I dunno, he has at least two or three dozen troops not tied up in the Ukraine, they could do some real damage.

 

[Kepler]

WW2 really left a mark.

 

[Jimjamesak]

I dunno, he has at least two or three dozen troops not tied up in the Ukraine, they could do some real damage.

It’s time to play “At which Aleutian Island would the invading Russian forces be destroyed at?”

I’m going with Attu.

 

[Kepler]

It’s time to play “At which Aleutian Island would the invading Russian forces be destroyed at?”

I’m going with Attu.

TRADITION!

 

[Jimjamesak]

TRADITION!

It was hilarious reading the stuff on Reddit like “what if the Chinese teamed up with the Russians? That could be worrying.”

Like assuming the combined Chinese and Russian forces with their two aircraft carriers got past the five US carrier battle groups in the Pacific and somehow navigated the waters you see in Deadliest Catch, I think the land based forces could handle it…

 

[state of hockey]

The military might not be needed. The Hillstrand family probably has enough ammo to do the job themselves.

 

[French Rage]

TRADITION!

A great story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4

 

[dxmnkd316]

The military might not be needed. The Hillstrand family probably has enough ammo to do the job themselves.

This is some Tier S poasting

 

[Jimjamesak]

The military might not be needed. The Hillstrand family probably has enough ammo to do the job themselves.

Woof.

There are two ever present, Alaska involved discussions in the althistory/what if sphere of the internet and they both have really really simple answers despite many minutes of useless speculation (mostly because neither answer is very interesting for YouTube):

1. What would happen if Russia tried to take back Alaska? (A lot of Russians would die in the Bering Strait)

2. What would've happened if Russia never sold Alaska to the US? (It would've been annexed by the British at some point and become a part of Canada)

 

[Handyman]

The military might not be needed. The Hillstrand family probably has enough ammo to do the job themselves.

Its true...and they are so crazy they might set their own boat on fire just top stop the Russians!

 

[Jimjamesak]

It’s true...and they are so crazy they might set their own boat on fire just top stop the Russians!

I remember thinking “man those guys are a bit out there” and then found out that they’re from Homer.

FTR, the slogan for Homer AK is “A quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem.”

 

[Kepler]

I remember thinking “man those guys are a bit out there” and then found out that they’re from Homer.

FTR, the slogan for Homer AK is “A quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem.”

Stolen from Montauk.

 

[Kepler]

In which our infantile derps destroy Europe.

 

[Kepler]

I've been slowly reading a paper by Max Weber called "On the Situation of Constitutional Democracy in Russia." It's interesting in many ways, not least that Weber is a genius, but because it was written in 1906, after the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. The dramatis persona are:

• Tsarists: reactionary defenders of a violent and brutal autocratic order
• Bourgeois: capitalist-oriented businessmen and even the richer peasantry
• Social democrats: reformers who want reallocation of land to the peasants and universal, equal, secret ballot suffrage
• Agrarian conservative communists: hyper Russian Orthodox anti-Capitalist anti-Marxists who want to generalize Russian communal agrarian system directly under the Tsar and disempower the landlords and aristocrats, sort of like a Louis XIV or Napolean III regime
• Proletarian communists: Lenin et al, see reallocation of industrial and land resources as the next evolutionary step of emancipation

The first four groups are a kaleidoscope of alliances, jumping in and out of bed with one another, trading off reforms to either forward their aims or live to fight another day, and they gradually wear each other out and discredit themselves in front of their own followers with games of real politic. Only the Tsarists and the Leninists, the latter taking a consistent hard line and refusing to negotiate with anybody, grasp there is insufficient history and infrastructure in Russia to build a post-authoritarian democratic middle class like Western Europe. The Tsarists pretend to play along, playing for time, waiting for inertia to restore their disproportionate de facto power. And it holds for 12 years until... well... \_(ツ)_/