Russia keeps threatening with nukes

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, April 14, 2022 11:00 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/russia-baltic-nuclear-
deployment-finland-sweden-nato/

BRUSSELS — Russia warned Finland and Sweden on Thursday that if they join NATO, Moscow will reinforce the Baltic Sea region, including with nuclear weapons.
The threat came a day after Finnish officials suggested that their country could request to join the 30-member military alliance within weeks and as Sweden mulled making a similar move.
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Finland moves closer to joining NATO
Helsinki and Stockholm are officially nonaligned militarily, but they are reconsidering their status in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — leading to escalated warnings from Russia.
Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said Thursday that NATO expansion would lead Moscow to strengthen air, land and naval forces to “balance” military capability in the region.
“If Sweden and Finland join NATO, the length of the land borders of the alliance with the Russian Federation will more than double. Naturally, these boundaries will have to be strengthened,” he wrote on Telegram.

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Someone needs to roll up a newspaper and smack that dog.

SECOND

Friday, April 15, 2022 1:58 AM

Putin wants to "win" by May 9. What will count as a "win" for Putin is unclear.

Officials in the US and Ukraine believe that Putin wants to declare a battlefield victory by May 9, the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Celebrated as Victory Day in Russia every year, the date is marked by a grand military parade in Moscow. What more spectacular way to celebrate than nuclear fireworks over Kyiv? Russia Threatens to Strike Kyiv ‘Command Centers’ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/14/russia-threatens-to-strike-k
yiv-command-centers-over-cross-border-attacks-a77349

Haste to meet the May 9 deadline can make for “a military disaster” for Russia, as an unnamed Western official told AFP, but it can also spur Russia into even more short-term brutality. The new Russian commander in Ukraine, Alexander Dvornikov, “has a résumé that includes brutality against civilians in other theaters—in Syria,” Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor, told CNN on Apr. 10. “We can expect more of the same.”

https://qz.com/2154947/why-russia-wants-to-win-its-war-against-ukraine
-by-may-9/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Friday, April 15, 2022 9:40 AM

As Russian President Vladimir Putin readies a new offensive in his stalled war with Ukraine, strategists still talk of some form of Ukraine’s “Finlandization”—a kind of cowed neutrality—as a possible negotiated solution. But Finland itself may be about to tilt the balance dramatically the other way.

For Russia — which, for most of the past century, has pressured Finland into taking a nonthreatening posture — no outcome could be more devastating, except perhaps the very defeat in Ukraine Putin is now trying to avoid, experts said. Helsinki sits less than 200 miles from Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg, and Finland’s NATO membership would deliver “poetic justice” to him if this whole conflict “allegedly was about preventing Ukraine from joining NATO and shutting NATO’s open-door policy,” Monaghan said.

“It pushes him further into a corner,” said James Dobbins, a former senior U.S. diplomat now at the Rand Corporation. “If he wins in Ukraine but loses Finland, he comes out of this without having gained much. If he loses both, which is more likely, then he’s compounded his problem and the sort of nightmare scenario of an overriding NATO right on Russia’s border.” Finland’s 830-mile border with Russia would double NATO’s border against Moscow, amounting to the longest potential front between the European Union and Russia. “It’s a new problem not just in a military sense but in a cultural and economic sense,” Dobbins said.

Provoking the “self-encirclement” of his country is a catastrophic strategic error, wrote Aaron Friedberg, a former senior U.S. official and scholar at Princeton University, in an email. The entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO “would be at least as important as the shifts in Germany and maybe more so,” Friedberg wrote, referring to Berlin’s new willingness to arm up against Russia.

“Finland and Sweden won’t just be free riders, but will add materially to NATO’s combat power,” he wrote, adding that these decisions are very unlikely to be reversed. “They will mark a permanent change — one that the Russians have tried for years to prevent.”

If it joins NATO, Finland could also opt to go the way of Norway, which—although it was a founding member of NATO—has sought to placate Moscow by not allowing foreign military bases and nuclear weapons as well as placing limitations on NATO exercises. Even so, Norway has begun taking part in NATO defense measures to a much greater degree in recent years.

A senior Finnish official told Foreign Policy that the “Norway model” was being considered. Finland, whose long history in standing off Moscow’s aggression includes its successful defense against a Soviet invasion during World War II, has seen to its own defense for decades, including compulsory conscription.

“We’re not in desperate need of foreign bases because we have our own,” said the Finnish official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Our military is one of the strongest in Europe in numbers and weapons.” Although Finland’s military is smaller than major NATO nations—such as Britain, France, and Germany—its longtime lone preparedness against Russian aggression has made it one of the most formidable in terms of artillery firepower, airspace surveillance, and cyber and missile readiness. The Finnish military can “swiftly mobilize” 280,000 troops, the official said, “with a maximum of 900,000.” Finland, despite having a population of 5.6 million people that is dwarfed by Germany, even possesses more battle tanks than Berlin. It also deploys an air force of 64 F-18s armed with highly sophisticated U.S.-supplied “smart” missiles and has ordered 64 more new F-35s, with deliveries scheduled to start in 2026, according to Finland’s official figures.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/13/finland-sweden-nato-membership-ru
ssia-war/

For the fifth year in a row, Finland is rated the happiest country in the world and would be happy to make Russia the most miserable.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-happiest-countries-2022-well
ness/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Was

THG

Friday, April 15, 2022 4:41 PM

In the movie Patton he says he only hopes his troop do not lose their fear of him. We need the Russian people to become less fearful of removing Putin one way or the other, and more fearful of letting him continue on.

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SIGNYM

Friday, April 15, 2022 5:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

In the movie Patton he says he only hopes his troop do not lose their fear of him. We need the Russian people to become less fearful of removing Putin one way or the other, and more fearful of letting him continue on.

Why?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SECOND

Friday, April 15, 2022 8:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Why?

Same reason as the Confederacy needed a change of leadership because the "leaders" wanted a war. The leaders lead them into poverty that lasted from 1861 all the way until today. The ex-Confederate states, and the Border States, are the poorest, when once they were the richest. Belligerent leaders cause poverty, even in a fertile land.

If Putin gets in a hurry to achieve his arbitrary deadline of May 9, the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany, and drops a suitcase nuke on Kyiv to kill Volodymyr Zelenskyy, decapitating Ukraine's government, Putin will be shoving Russia into poverty that will last for a century.

Border states (American Civil War)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_states_(American_Civil_War)

Suitcase nuclear device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device#Soviet_Union_and
_Russia

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Friday, April 15, 2022 10:23 PM

"Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they've faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons," CIA Director William Burns said.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-weapons-burns-cia/31804539.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Saturday, April 16, 2022 3:57 AM

Ret. general discusses CIA chief's warning about nuclear weapons

CIA Director William Burns warned Russia may use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmett discusses the differences between artillery shells and tactical nuclear weapons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ret-general-discusses-cia-chief-s
-warning-about-nuclear-weapons/vi-AAWfyFV

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Saturday, April 16, 2022 6:38 AM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN Friday that “all of the countries of the world” should be prepared for the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/tapper-zelensky-interview-cnnt
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, April 16, 2022 9:21 AM

Quote:
Russia keeps threatening with nukes

No. They don't.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

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