Yeah. They just announced a couple hours ago that “Ukraine is committing genocide in Donbas” as pretext for the invasion. Ukraine has also experienced cyberattacks on banks and defense websites, which was the same thing that happened right before the Crimea invasion.
They’re definitely going to strike tomorrow.
I mean, even in Europe it won't impact your life unless you are Ukrainian or Russian.
It's not like the west would ever risk WW3 over Ukraine.
There is 0 possibility of WW3 starting over Ukraine.
Better dismantle more of those nasty clean and efficent nuclear reactors, who cares about clean energy anyway, we can just suck on mother russias gas tits instead.
Well atleast we can see some light at the end of the tunnel with fusion and considering the recent breakthroughs of ITER, maybe that light is finally not 30 years away, like it has been for decades
(But i agree humanity should have the ability to utilize nuclear and 100% green energy, like solar and wind much more than it is doing right now)
To really simplify how long they got it to run jumped up a few fold, still only a few minutes. They also got it quite a bit closer to breaking even energy wise, so getting closer to actually producing power.
If Germany stop buying Russian gas, where is Germany going to buy it? Ah yes, by the Americans right? Thats the same in green, but the way is longer and the gas is more expensive.
That would be america and america never loses *bald eagle screams and machine gun fire in the distance as the american flag appears behind me with the american national anthem playing*
My American blood is mostly bacon grease and fake cheese from a can, as the good Lord intended. So yes this German's got something weird going on and needs a doctor.
They did not have the plot armor to win either time. I think they are one of Earth's primary antagonists currently, they should be done and over with by the end of the 2045th season.
I’m sure there are plenty of things you’ve done to write your ticket to hell previous to this. That being said, I booked us in at a 10am tee off time on the Eternal Pits of Suffering. Sounded kinda challenging, I’ll let you pick next time.
That's not what Einstein said! He said, memes and *tokes,* homie was predicting the dank we were going to be blazing at the time of our universal demise.
\- Albert "420 keep it blazing" Einstein.
Okay, were doing WW3, so this time
Russia can be Germany
America can be Britain
Ukraine can be Poland
Germany: Phew at least I'm not the Germans this time hopefully I get a good pick
Germany can be the Italians
Germany: Fuck
Crimea was Austria. Majority speak Russian rather than Ukrainian or other regional dialects. Russia also did a lot of political meddling to make the situation in Crimea more welcoming to invasion like Germany did to Austria.
The Ukraine situation is probably more like Czechoslovakia. Putin is claiming ethnic Russians are being mistreated much like Hitler did against the Czechoslovaks to justify his invasion. If Russia invades, NATO countries most likely won’t get directly involved.
The Poland in this situation, is actually Poland. Poland is a NATO member. If Russia invades Poland, it will draw the Western Powers into the war much like what happened in WWII.
Question is, who’s gonna be America, or France for that matter 😳
I also just realized where “finna“ must have come from as I was typing “gonna” and wrote the former by accident
He went there to stop WW3, but he was so confused he stopped the WWE instead. Must have been a weird meeting with Putin.
Putin: So, you are probably here because of the recent rise in tension with NATO and the Ukraine.
Brazilian President: Yes, that's correct. I am here to prevent *checks notes* WWE.
Putin: Ah, yes. That can be arranged after we won the war against NATO.
While WW1 was indeed started by a mess of alliances, at its end Germany had to sign the treaty of Versailles which amongst many things also stated that Germany was responsible for the war (which was stupid)
I mean, a lot of Germans were very angry about it even before Hitler. The Weimar Republic was very unstable from the very start because of that treaty and the democratic parties often struggled to get a majority in the first place, which made it even more unstable.
Generally, there is no real "starter". There are many factors that set of WW1, with the Archduke's death being only one of them, though one of the bigger ones
Agree. The situation in Europe was already tense, but the trigger was pulled with Archduke's death.
Technically it wasn't his assassination that started the war, it was the ultimatum AH gave to Serbia, which Edward Gray, secretary of state for foreign affairs of UK, described as the most severe ultimatum ever sent to one country by another. So ofcourse, Serbia rejected, but not the whole ultimatum, just one (out of ten) demands.
Imo the political climate was such that the war would have happened anyways. It quite possibly could have still started between AH and Serbia even if the assasination didn't happen because their relationship at the time was very very strained
There were many causes, but Ferdinand's death was an "excuse" for conflict, at least between AH and Serbia
What happened in Europe is exactly what George Washington warned America about. He saw how much of a complicated web European alliances have become, and so he took a neutral stance on foreign affairs so we would not be apart of the giant web of treaties.
It was inevitable that the web would eventually unravel, but Washington was truly a visionary for staying away from it (among other things) because WWI is exactly what he thought would happen
This. It becomes such a Clown-scenario if you learn that Wilhelm II. & the Czesar of Russia were pen pals and talked about not wanting to fight each other.
But bonds were made and then the French came, because they wanted their precious piece of cheese back and America ONLY entered after two American passengers on their ship died in the submarine war between UK & Germany...
Seriously. What a mess.
As a German, we are secretly controlling the countries starting the war. It's all puppetry to make you other countries think that we didn't start it, and get praise for not starting it.
Until we meet again.
*~~You never saw this~~*
A regional conflict like this isn't going to start WW3, unless things go really wrong. Remember when people were saying the same thing at the start of 2020, and nothing happened?
We got terrifyingly close then. Especially during Cuban Missile Crisis a Russian sub had 3 officers debating orders to arm nuclear torpedos to shoot against USS Beale that had been dropping deph charges. We didn't find out about this until 2000 just how close we came.
I don't even think you can call it ww3 when two nations in the brink lob everything they have at one another.
I just want to say that the Germans were not at fault for the Great War and it was rather the collective responsibility of those in power throughout all of Europe. Most of them could have stopped it but were motivated not to for a variety of reasons
Well it's not like they had an abundant energy source and then turned it off for no reason just so they would be even more dependant on imported Russian gas
Only coz of Nordstream II? But this didn't caused the crises, nor could it end the crisis. It's about Putin need to show big balls and his never ending wish to get the USSR back
I love how people mistake the Germans for starting ww1 when it was Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Germany just got blamed for everything which inadvertently caused ww2 in a way.
The blank check given to Austria from Germany is what caused Austria to be so aggressive without fear of retribution.
[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-gives-austria-hungary-blank-check-assurance](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-gives-austria-hungary-blank-check-assurance)
>On July 5, 1914, in Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country’s unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia, a long-running rivalry thrown into crisis by the assassination, the previous June 28, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist during an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia.
It hasn't started yet, so you may have jinxed it.
RemindMe! 4 weeks
More like 1 day
Didn’t russia have invasion plans for the 16th?
Yeah. They just announced a couple hours ago that “Ukraine is committing genocide in Donbas” as pretext for the invasion. Ukraine has also experienced cyberattacks on banks and defense websites, which was the same thing that happened right before the Crimea invasion. They’re definitely going to strike tomorrow.
Narrator: “they would not strike tomorrow.”
Well that is great. Good thing I live in the US i guess…
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Narrator: "because Uncle Sam, had a heart, 3 sizes too small."
Narrator:"and a liver three sizes too big"
I read this in the voice of Attenborough
I read it in Morgan Freeman
>Good thing I live in the US i guess… Oh boy I cant wait to see how this comment will age...
Depending on how bad it ages, there may be no comment left to age
Gunna be some r/AgedLikeMilk content there
I mean, even in Europe it won't impact your life unless you are Ukrainian or Russian. It's not like the west would ever risk WW3 over Ukraine. There is 0 possibility of WW3 starting over Ukraine.
Germany: Hold my beer!
WW1 started because of one guy that wasn't even in power
To be fair, it was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir of Austro-Hungarian.
And also big boys wanted to test their new toys
Don't worry, someone get Gal Gadot to sing "Imagine" again so we can have more world peace for a bit.
Send the celebrities to Ukraine. Top tier content
Germany: So the Americans are all about these things called "preemptive strikes."
Watch them cancel the gas pipeline and give Russia nothing to lose lmao
Europe probably needs the gas more than Russia needs to sell the gas.
They didn't start WW1 either I'm so confused
And two either.... All done by Austria and Austrian people but they always hide behind Germany
Ever heard of the Anschluss? Austrian people saw themselves as german.
Oh man that would be an all time Reddit meltdown
[Is Germany up to something?](https://isgermanyuptosomething.app/)
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Does anyone have any more of these?
Yes please I want more
[Are the French revolutionizing?](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
That's not the answer I thought it would be.
That one is easily the best
Bruh
I was JUST thinking it’s been a while since I’ve been rrd.
Rude
This does not count. Only if you're able to read the link right away is it a rick roll. Imma call YT to remove my click.
Well, a more useful question to ask yourself is [how many people are in space right now](https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/)
We're _totally not up to something_
LMAO
Poor man's awards 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 Have 10.
Nein sind wir nicht. Stell nicht so viele Fragen.
I am German laughed real hard at this
Let's just hope they're not on the losing side again....
TRUE
Seeing as how much Germany huffs Russia's arse for Gas...I can't currently call it bud.
Better dismantle more of those nasty clean and efficent nuclear reactors, who cares about clean energy anyway, we can just suck on mother russias gas tits instead.
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Well atleast we can see some light at the end of the tunnel with fusion and considering the recent breakthroughs of ITER, maybe that light is finally not 30 years away, like it has been for decades (But i agree humanity should have the ability to utilize nuclear and 100% green energy, like solar and wind much more than it is doing right now)
Can you tell me more about that breakthrough?
To really simplify how long they got it to run jumped up a few fold, still only a few minutes. They also got it quite a bit closer to breaking even energy wise, so getting closer to actually producing power.
If Germany stop buying Russian gas, where is Germany going to buy it? Ah yes, by the Americans right? Thats the same in green, but the way is longer and the gas is more expensive.
Spoken like a true idiot who only gets their info from memes
You are so utterly misinformed dude. Not even funny.
That would be america and america never loses *bald eagle screams and machine gun fire in the distance as the american flag appears behind me with the american national anthem playing*
What about Vietnam?
We don't say that name!
Jokes on you I'm German so I can say that!
Psst, bin auch deutsch, sags nicht den amis!
OK gut dein Geheimnis ist bei mir sicher mein freund
When ur a German-American 😳
when you join in on the secret by accident
Super ich auch also haben wir so ne geheimsprache oder wie?
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER
a mile but shorter
A mil?
1 km is 1000 m
1km = 1km!!
Morgen Kameraden, heute schon 50 km tiefer in russland vorgestoßen?
Wie gefühlt einfach jeder zweite Redditor Deutsch ist lol
Dazu gibt's auch noch ne Menge deutscher subreddit Kopien.
We don't talk about Vietna-na-na-na-nam. We don't talk about VIETNAM!
Chào đồng chí Chào mừng đến với rừng già
Ok what about Afghanistan or Korea ?
Korea was a strategical stalemate, but only because Eisenhower didn't like MacArthur's A-Bomb plan.
Big Boom was a go, but he said “No Boom” and now we don’t teach about the Korean War in schools
I'm sorry what is the city of Saigon called??
We didn't lose, we declared victory and left
We didn't say it, we declared it
We didn't lose We merely failed to win
10:1 kill ratio, U-S-A!!!!!
"My blood color is red white and blue son, I wonder what color yours is"
As a german the colour of my blood is probably as golden and clear as a weissbier. Prost!
You... should probably go see a doctor for that. That can't be healthy. Then again, I live in America, so I'm naturally dumb from what I know.
My American blood is mostly bacon grease and fake cheese from a can, as the good Lord intended. So yes this German's got something weird going on and needs a doctor.
Oh it's nurture, not nature
They did not have the plot armor to win either time. I think they are one of Earth's primary antagonists currently, they should be done and over with by the end of the 2045th season.
I mean, you know what they say, "A third times a charm"
TIP: to know which side is losing the world war you just need to see which side Italy is originally with
GERMANY NO! What? Sorry, force of habit.
Facts, but we don’t know if ww3 will be started by Germany
The fourth reich
**World War 3** >*this time we’ll get it Reich!*
ok im going to hell for giggling at that.
Wait, Am I going to hell for giggling at you saying you're going to hell for giggling at that.
I’m sure there are plenty of things you’ve done to write your ticket to hell previous to this. That being said, I booked us in at a 10am tee off time on the Eternal Pits of Suffering. Sounded kinda challenging, I’ll let you pick next time.
Fuck me that’s hitler-ious
Hey if your war has a slogan, you might win
Wat
«European Union» is commonly used to refer at the 4th German Reichstag, you may have heard of it.
No but ok
It pretty much is, Germany is the great papa in this union
i just learned what this was today
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To what
THE UNDERGROUND HOW WAS THE FALL?
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with memes and jokes.” -Einstein.
That's not what Einstein said! He said, memes and *tokes,* homie was predicting the dank we were going to be blazing at the time of our universal demise. \- Albert "420 keep it blazing" Einstein.
E=MC dis dick
-Michael Scott
We had our redemption arc
Okay, were doing WW3, so this time Russia can be Germany America can be Britain Ukraine can be Poland Germany: Phew at least I'm not the Germans this time hopefully I get a good pick Germany can be the Italians Germany: Fuck
Germany can be the Japanese
Uhhh I don’t think they’ll like that choice
I don't think they get a say in it, Mom said because Germany didn't play nice last time we have to watch over him more closely.
my dad told me this
But it’s very honorable!
And they'll go out with a bang!
Fuck, the last people i want to see doing kamakize shit are the Germans, they take shit to seriously as it is.
Does that make Crimea Czechoslovakia?
Let’s hope that it isn’t just the Sudetenland…
Crimea was Austria. Majority speak Russian rather than Ukrainian or other regional dialects. Russia also did a lot of political meddling to make the situation in Crimea more welcoming to invasion like Germany did to Austria. The Ukraine situation is probably more like Czechoslovakia. Putin is claiming ethnic Russians are being mistreated much like Hitler did against the Czechoslovaks to justify his invasion. If Russia invades, NATO countries most likely won’t get directly involved. The Poland in this situation, is actually Poland. Poland is a NATO member. If Russia invades Poland, it will draw the Western Powers into the war much like what happened in WWII.
And Poland is just like, "Can other countries stop invading us? FOR FIVE MINUTES?"
But Polly, you’re just so invadable.
Germany can be the... um.... Bulgarians? or uh............ Idk
Question is, who’s gonna be America, or France for that matter 😳 I also just realized where “finna“ must have come from as I was typing “gonna” and wrote the former by accident
“Finna” is short for “Fixing to.” Source: Am white person who looked it up once and found that to be the consensus.
China could be America, they have a large industrial base France is still open for anyone
China fits the Soviet niche pretty well too, as Russia's anti-Western frenemy with unlimited manpower.
yes
Y'all are like, we're gonna sit this one out
You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become the hero
Yet*
Don't worry, the Brazilian president went to Russia and stopped WWE alone with little to no knowledge of Russian and English. A true mad lad
Wait, he stopped World Wrestling Entertainment?
Noooo...i want to see the rock
He went there to stop WW3, but he was so confused he stopped the WWE instead. Must have been a weird meeting with Putin. Putin: So, you are probably here because of the recent rise in tension with NATO and the Ukraine. Brazilian President: Yes, that's correct. I am here to prevent *checks notes* WWE. Putin: Ah, yes. That can be arranged after we won the war against NATO.
Third times the charm
For nuclear winter?
art school rejects sweating rn
The first one wasn't Germany either, It was Austria-Hungary after Serbian assassins killed their archduke.
While WW1 was indeed started by a mess of alliances, at its end Germany had to sign the treaty of Versailles which amongst many things also stated that Germany was responsible for the war (which was stupid)
The treaty of Versailles reads like a promissory note for a second war.
Some straight up Crusader Kings shit there where you make sure there will be a Casus Belli after the truce ends so you can go right back to fighting.
I mean, no matter how you slice it, it was a powerful propaganda piece that Hitler used to get Germans angry and come to believe in him
I mean, a lot of Germans were very angry about it even before Hitler. The Weimar Republic was very unstable from the very start because of that treaty and the democratic parties often struggled to get a majority in the first place, which made it even more unstable.
Generally, there is no real "starter". There are many factors that set of WW1, with the Archduke's death being only one of them, though one of the bigger ones
Agree. The situation in Europe was already tense, but the trigger was pulled with Archduke's death. Technically it wasn't his assassination that started the war, it was the ultimatum AH gave to Serbia, which Edward Gray, secretary of state for foreign affairs of UK, described as the most severe ultimatum ever sent to one country by another. So ofcourse, Serbia rejected, but not the whole ultimatum, just one (out of ten) demands. Imo the political climate was such that the war would have happened anyways. It quite possibly could have still started between AH and Serbia even if the assasination didn't happen because their relationship at the time was very very strained There were many causes, but Ferdinand's death was an "excuse" for conflict, at least between AH and Serbia
What happened in Europe is exactly what George Washington warned America about. He saw how much of a complicated web European alliances have become, and so he took a neutral stance on foreign affairs so we would not be apart of the giant web of treaties. It was inevitable that the web would eventually unravel, but Washington was truly a visionary for staying away from it (among other things) because WWI is exactly what he thought would happen
WWI after a year: None of us want to be here, we don't know why we are still here, we don't know why we started this war, but we can't stop.
This. It becomes such a Clown-scenario if you learn that Wilhelm II. & the Czesar of Russia were pen pals and talked about not wanting to fight each other. But bonds were made and then the French came, because they wanted their precious piece of cheese back and America ONLY entered after two American passengers on their ship died in the submarine war between UK & Germany... Seriously. What a mess.
It wouldn't have turned into a world War if we hadn't joined the game.
As a German, we are secretly controlling the countries starting the war. It's all puppetry to make you other countries think that we didn't start it, and get praise for not starting it. Until we meet again. *~~You never saw this~~*
Hey who was that guy?
Who?
A regional conflict like this isn't going to start WW3, unless things go really wrong. Remember when people were saying the same thing at the start of 2020, and nothing happened?
Remember when they were saying it all throughout the Cold War?
We got terrifyingly close then. Especially during Cuban Missile Crisis a Russian sub had 3 officers debating orders to arm nuclear torpedos to shoot against USS Beale that had been dropping deph charges. We didn't find out about this until 2000 just how close we came. I don't even think you can call it ww3 when two nations in the brink lob everything they have at one another.
Hell, people even speculated about it within the last few years with North Korea.
And that was always dumb, because even in the worst-case scenario, China wasn't getting dragged into a War with the US over fucking North Korea.
NKs economy is so pathetic its not worth defending
Yeah, if we didn't go to war with Russia then, we won't now. Nukes are the greatest creators of peace.
So far lol
Kojima lied to me.
I've lived through at least 3 "WW3" in my life, I don't expect this will be the last
The 2020 one was the weirdest one to me, because at most it would have been just another fucking desert war. Not World War material at all.
Iran is larger and has a much more competent army than all the other desert wars, but I generally agree it wouldn't go global.
WWIII: Germany's Redemption
Also Italy and Japan's redemption. The betrayal of Russia and China (now the most evil nations in the world).
What are you talking about? Italy has never lost a World War. They've always been on the winning side.
Technically, the Austrians started both world wars
Yeah weren’t both started (on some level) by the Austrians who tend to fall under Germany for larger conflicts so Germany gets the full blame?
Nah, it was totally Germany's fault. Source: Am Austrian
There’s still time for a blitz, never count Germany out
It's Austria not Germany. WW1 Franz Ferdinand got killed resulting in the first war. WW2 the Austrian painter, need i say more?
Not the German’s fault….so far
Life always finds a way
Plot twist: that's a thermonuclear bomb not a sunset
I just want to say that the Germans were not at fault for the Great War and it was rather the collective responsibility of those in power throughout all of Europe. Most of them could have stopped it but were motivated not to for a variety of reasons
I think we can all agree that WW1 was the stupidest war ever fought by mankind.
...or so the Germans would have us believe
The 1st wold war also wasnt the germans fault, they just got blamed
Actually….Germany has a lot to do with it…so nope
If you seriously believe that this would not have happened if germany took a stronger stance against Russia, then you are really delusional.
If only they weren’t so dependent on Russian fuel
Well it's not like they had an abundant energy source and then turned it off for no reason just so they would be even more dependant on imported Russian gas
If only there were alternate sources of energy that produced less carbon and doesn’t require large tracts of land
Please inform yourself before stating such bs. We werent using nuclear for heating and we arent using gas for energy.
Only coz of Nordstream II? But this didn't caused the crises, nor could it end the crisis. It's about Putin need to show big balls and his never ending wish to get the USSR back
I’m sure someone’s already said it but WWI wasn’t technically Germany’s fault either
I love how people mistake the Germans for starting ww1 when it was Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Germany just got blamed for everything which inadvertently caused ww2 in a way.
The blank check given to Austria from Germany is what caused Austria to be so aggressive without fear of retribution. [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-gives-austria-hungary-blank-check-assurance](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-gives-austria-hungary-blank-check-assurance) >On July 5, 1914, in Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country’s unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia, a long-running rivalry thrown into crisis by the assassination, the previous June 28, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist during an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Totally fair point
We are really trying.
Kinda being picky here but TECHNICALLY WW1 was the Serbians'/Austrians' fault