And attacking Moscow might be exactly what motivates them to stand up from the table and shoot everyone else before themselves before the cops can get them

None of those red lines were direct attack on Moscow.

All the other times Moscow was directly attacked?

Moscow would respond with Nukes

Yes even if it was just Ukraine doing it and yes even if they used entirely their own homegrown tools to do it.

Everything about Russia’s geopolitical strategy is about either strengthening or defending Moscow (just look at a map of major transit ways in the region).

Literally any direct attack on that city would be seen as an instant validation of every most paranoid delusion of the aims of this war, and Moscow would be as close to turning the keys as it has ever gotten.

I’m pretty sure they’ve been doing this already though

one with the stickshift copypasta intensifies

Man imagine if that was an enforced rule

Like, Trucknuts McGee isn’t even allowed to move into a house that’s too close to the school because he’s driving something that’s better rated as an Armored Personnel Transport than as a passenger car.

Honestly I say the KGBs fails were funnier with regards to trying to coerce foreign governments

They made a sex tape of the leader of Indonesia and when they tried to blackmail him with it he demanded copies to show to his buddies

You joke but this is actually what like 99% of classified documents actually involve, not conspiracy shit, just methodologies that worked that the relevant agency doesn’t want people finding out about and developing countermeasures to.

This is why Edward Snowden is on an extended stay in a Russian airport right now, not for exposing a conspiracy and making the US government look bad, but for basically handing the playbook over to the public leading to adversarial countermeasures against the techniques and exploits they use.

If you ever see those “how to not be identified at a protest” posts, that’s more or less what the letter agencies are trying to avoid people being able to make more of.

Nah, the USS Guam is just Guam

No kinda aircraft carrier like an unsinkable island aircraft carrier!