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swordfish1221 t1_j1zwlb2 wrote

Loved the first 3/4 of the season, i feel like the last 1/4 was fairly week and had to many cringy moments. Overall a good season. Crazy it was filmed before the Ukrainian invasion and it had so many parallels to real life.

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cynic74 t1_j21uwc3 wrote

I completely agree. It started off interesting at first, but then after the Jack Ryan on the run and the nuclear device plot sort of ended it got dull and boring. I did like it when that Navy Seal threw Krasinski out of the helicopter in a real stunt. That was cool. But ultimately although it mirrors current affairs a bit, it was a pretty lackluster story and the worst season out of the three.

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ChuckChuckelson t1_j1zyiha wrote

The Russians invaded in 2014. Look it up.

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swordfish1221 t1_j1zyssw wrote

Big difference between 2014 and this years invasion but yea.

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somedickinyourmouth t1_j209fkv wrote

As someone who's worked in international relations, not really.

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Mythic514 t1_j20du12 wrote

You really disagree that there is a "big difference" between a limited invasion to annex a single region of Ukraine vs. a fullscale invasion of the entire country, with military occupation, bombings of major urban centers, going on a yearlong now?

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swordfish1221 t1_j20jjt4 wrote

If you have worked in international relations care to explain why countries weren’t giving billions of dollars to ukraine since 2014 but only after full scale invasion if there is no big difference

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somedickinyourmouth t1_j24al61 wrote

One is hot, the other is cold. War is still war. Did you think nothing was happening simply because you didn't know about it?

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SonofNamek t1_j21xdpn wrote

I mean, if you paid attention to the boring stuff in international affairs and not just follow whatever is trending on Reddit or Twitter ("Oh Amerikkka warmonger, hurr durr CIA and 5 Eyez bad, RuSsIA nOt iNvaDing U just wAnT uS to obEy the eLiTes!"), you'd find that security analysts have been quite concerned about Russian activity being on the rise for years now. This show is just taking what's already in place and riffing off of it.

For example, someone like Peter Zeihan, who is more of a 'pop' geopolitical analyst, even correctly predicted 2022 as the invasion year back in 2014ish due to this year being likely the last year before Russia's male population began declining. They're all in, at this point, and probably are willing to throw a few hundred thousand men away.

In that time, Russia's been releasing material about how the Ukrainian identity is tied to the Russian identity and how they needed to be together as one identity. Just go out and read what actually gets put in document and you'll find that this war and Russia's list of justifications aren't too surprising.

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