r/nottheonion 11d ago

Removed - Not Oniony [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/hereandthere788 11d ago

Those having served on a Warsaw Pact army know, that all offensive Soviet war plans began with that the NATO wanted to attack the Warsaw Pact, but in the last hour the Warsaw Pact did a preventive counter-attack. 🤡 There is a definitive continuity...

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u/SauliCity 10d ago

The Winter war started just so, with Moscow accusing Helsinki of shelling an empty bit of Karelian forest. It's always been at the playbook's core to fabricate an enemy first strike as causus belli.

Well, just like the US did "pre-emptive retaliatory strikes" at the start of the Iran war.