Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

  • freamon@endlesstalk.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s also surreal (for a different reason), to hear lines like

    Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?

    from Terminator 2.

  • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Rewatching Stargate and international cooperation feels so strange and bereft somehow. A kinder path.

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think you have any clue what the military power of the Russians are. I bet you’ve watched your telly and just trust whatever you are told by western ‘analysts’. Currently, Russian military is the strongest military in the world, and are winning against the third Nato backed army. Deal with it. Watch ‘The Duran’ on YT, or follow some real news channels on Telegram…

  • Blue and Orange@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Modern Warfare 2/3 where Russia not only manages to successfully invade the US, but brings it to it’s knees.

    Even if you set aside the fact that the US has the world’s most powerful military and a heavily armed civilian population, geographically it would be virtually impossible to invade from another continent.

    But fiction is fiction. And the Modern warfare trilogy was outstanding.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m old enough to remember when movies like ‘Firefox’ and ‘The Hunt For Red October’ first came out.

    The US was always miles ahead of the Soviets. It was so bad that during the Reagan Era the Right had to come up with a new metric that let the Reds look tougher than they were. “Throw weight” was the measure of how big a load an ICBM could carry. Because the Russians had inferior tech, they had to build bigger missiles. Kind of how a 1700’s musket had a higher caliber than an M-16. It was actually a symbol of soviet inferiority, but you’ll hear people talking about it to this day.