Monkey241:
Carryfast:
robroy:
Do you reckon he’s come to the conclusion that he’s bitten off more than he can chew, and that he realises that he has seriously underestimated the actions and bravery of the Ukraine forces, and their last minute conscripts from the equally brave Ukraine civilian public.I think (also from an amateurish pov) that he just expected to march in with little opposition, then use his ‘liberation from Naziism’ propaganda b/s to come across as the hero…(badly thought out btw as at least 2 of the Ukraine govt are reported to be of Jewish origin.)
All this b/s he’s spouting about NATO using threatening language,.and his veiled threat of using nuclear weapons could be a mixture of a smokescreen and damage limitation to save face and take the focus off his misjudgment.
When the unexpected amount of Russian troops arrive home in body bags to their families, .surely the Russisn populace will turn against him.
You’re betting ( our farm ) on some suicidally wide of the mark assumptions about what and who you’re dealing with
If Russia nukes anyone they won’t be stupid enough to drop one on Ukraine.
The reference to putting their nuke ‘deterrent’ at our equivalent of DEFCON 2 means their long range strategic nukes not dropping a tactical nuke in their own back yard.
He’s now qualified that with the reference to Liz big mouth Truss.So now we know the target.Thats not a veiled threat that’s all too clear.
As for this stunt it was obviously a deliberately restrained operation meant to give NATO a way out.Which it’s been stupid enough to ignore.
You’d best hope that I’m wrong but if I’m not luckily I live close enough to a ground zero for it to be quick and the US controls our launch codes not zb Truss because the US isn’t going to trade NYC and LA in retaliation for London.
While Putin stopped being in charge of events from the point of the order to move.He just signs the orders that his generals and Politburo give him to sign.
For someone who lived through the Cold War you should know better.
Effectively Putin is the equivalent of JFK but with less power than Curtis Le May had and Russia sees it as their Cuban missile crisis with Ukraine and Poland etc being the equivalent of Cuba.
Unfortunately Biden, Bozo let alone Truss combined haven’t got the intelligence of Kruschev.
Ironically Threads almost got it right but even Barrry Hine wouldn’t have been able to envisage this stupid scenario of us wanting to move NATO into Poland let alone into Ukraine.As for the US controlling our launch codes?
Absolute brain dead bull
By implication you’re saying that the US would be prepared to lose the US homeland to a mutually assured destruction strategic nuke exchange in retaliation for the UK being taken out.
That’s what I call brain dead bull.
That’s why France maintains its own nuke deterrent not Polaris or Trident.It has rightly never trusted the US in that regard.Yet more reason why Russia would target the UK specifically.Playing off France and US at that point.
Ironically the US wanted the conventional containment strategy stupidly thinking that it would reduce the risk of nuclear war and Russia would meet that strategy on the US’ terms.
Big mistake.Potentially catastrophic for us.
My bet is that the US would prefer to take out France than allow France to retaliate for being hit by the fallout from the UK strikes.
As for our Trident force not being under US control dream on.
