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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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
v/

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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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Saturday, April 16, 2022 5:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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
v/

I can't wait to hear SIGGY's Russian pretzel logic excusing Putin's use of a tactical suitcase nuke. "The US forced them!"
She can live with thousands of executions of innocent women and children, the razing of entire cities, the silencing of free speech, so a nuke? No problem.
You have to wonder who's side she and Putin are on at some point. So much destruction, now and long into the future, is being done to Russia by Putin's actions. Crazy, effed up thinking.

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Saturday, April 16, 2022 6:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

I can't wait to hear SIGGY's Russian pretzel logic excusing Putin's use of a tactical suitcase nuke. "The US forced them!"
She can live with thousands of executions of innocent women and children, the razing of entire cities, the silencing of free speech, so a nuke? No problem.
You have to wonder who's side she and Putin are on at some point. So much destruction, now and long into the future, is being done to Russia by Putin's actions. Crazy, effed up thinking.

I already know how Russia will handle nuking Kyiv -- Russia will firmly claim that Ukraine did not keep its treaty obligation to remove all nukes from Ukraine. Unfortunately, there were accidental explosions in the storage facilities that just happened to be beneath the most important government buildings in Kyiv. Russia had nothing to do with these explosions and to say otherwise is to slander the great nation of Russia.

See how easy it is to turn blame away from Russia and place it where it belongs -- on the foolish Nazis in Ukraine who would store atom bombs underneath their own Capital.

This will be Signym's contribution to confusing which nation nuked Kyiv: "You know it is logically impossible to prove a negative."

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, April 16, 2022 8:04 PM

There isn't going to be any nukes, Karen.

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SECOND

Saturday, April 16, 2022 10:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There isn't going to be any nukes, Karen.

Putin’s gambit: To kill two Presidents, Biden and Zelenskyy, with one nuke

In war, assassination of heads of state has been exceedingly rare. Winston Churchill reportedly believed that after the U.S. entered World War II and the battle had reversed, killing Hitler was a bad idea. The fuhrer was the Allies’ best weapon in that his so-called genius had turned to gotterdammerung. Killing Hitler might have led to a successor who sought peace and thus derail the aim of unconditional surrender.

The most successful example in World War II of a directed assassination against a major leader was the plan to intercept and shoot down the aircraft carrying Japan’s senior admiral and the architect of Pearl Harbor, Isokuro Yamamoto, in 1943 over the South Pacific. The plan worked perfectly as envisaged by the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Chester Nimitz.

From Putin’s perspective, clearly Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a prime target. If Zelensky were killed, who would replace him? And would a successor have the same charisma to rally the nation and the West? And if President Biden were also in Kyiv, would that not raise the ante?

Obviously, any visit by an American dignitary would be wrapped in the utmost secrecy and security. But suppose that Russian intelligence assessed that there was a probability of a Biden visit at a certain time and date. Given the huge losses Russian forces have suffered and the Moskva debacle, how might former KGB Lt. Col. Putin evaluate his options?

Unlike America’s SEAL Team Six that dispatched Osama bin Laden in 2011, Putin does not have that option. Hence, the only certain, or near certain, means to ensure elimination of the presidents could be through a nuclear attack obliterating Kyiv and killing possibly hundreds of thousands of people. In Putin’s mind, could such a barbarically stunning act so paralyze any U.S. and NATO response and force a victory in Ukraine, however defined and regardless of whether Biden were there?

Dangerous in the extreme, such a decision could provoke a thermonuclear war. One of the more frightening aspects of this ghastly invasion is that this scenario is no longer confined to fiction or Hollywood action films. And a further nagging problem for President Biden is that if he does not go to Kyiv and there was serious speculation he might, clearly his adversaries and critics would challenge his courage.

Harlan Ullman, Ph.D, is senior adviser at Washington, D.C.’s Atlantic Council and the primary author of “shock and awe.” His latest book is, “The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large.”

More at https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3270535-putins-gambit-to-kil
l-a-president/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, April 18, 2022 2:59 AM

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged US president Joe Biden to visit Ukraine during an extended interview with CNN broadcast on Sunday.

The Ukrainian president also reiterated fears that Russian forces could deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Zelenskiy failed to note that the best day for Russia to nuke Kyiv is a day Biden visits, killing two Presidents with one nuke, decapitating NATO and Ukraine at the same instant.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/zelenskiy-cnn-interview-
biden

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, April 18, 2022 7:39 PM

Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen.

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

SECOND

Monday, April 18, 2022 8:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen.

The way the USA makes sure Putin doesn't is to kill Putin, not take him to Court. But even making Putin uncomfortable about his survival might be enough to deter him without actually sending 007 to Moscow. See the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, for the super secret mechanism to kill Putin. The whole movie revolved around stolen technology to build nano-bots that could kill Putin, or somebody like him, without needing to nuke a city to assassinate Putin. It just so happens that nano-bots are even more dangerous to mankind's survival than 10,000 nukes, so it was a very bad idea to develop the technology.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, April 18, 2022 8:19 PM

Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen.

P.S. Read Jane Hawk. James Bond is for idiots.

Who knows? You might even have an intimate relationship with nanobots yourself right now, mudblood.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

THG

Monday, April 18, 2022 11:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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
v/

I can't wait to hear SIGGY's Russian pretzel logic excusing Putin's use of a tactical suitcase nuke. "The US forced them!"
She can live with thousands of executions of innocent women and children, the razing of entire cities, the silencing of free speech, so a nuke? No problem.
You have to wonder who's side she and Putin are on at some point. So much destruction, now and long into the future, is being done to Russia by Putin's actions. Crazy, effed up thinking.

And you know she will make excuses for Putin doing that. She already has. If Putin does use nukes, it is additional proof that even with overwhelming numbers of weapons and troops, he cannot win against a much smaller and more capable fighting force. The Russian army is a joke, and the world has witnessed this. As much as he would like, no way Putin can put the Jennie back in the bottle.

Told you so comrades’ signym and kiki, told you so.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:34 AM

You didn't tell anybody anything of importance, Ted. You never have.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 6:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen.

P.S. Read Jane Hawk. James Bond is for idiots.

Who knows? You might even have an intimate relationship with nanobots yourself right now, mudblood.

For your anti-vaccine argument, the human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass.

6ix, the nanobots are already here.

For your anti-nuke argument, upgrading the country’s nuclear arsenal remains a priority for the Kremlin. Kartapolov said 49 billion roubles will be allocated for the nuclear armed complex on an annual basis from 2022-2023. The figure for 2024 will be about 56 billion roubles.

6ix, Putin wouldn't spend that money for something that he can't use because he is a peace-loving man spending nothing on nukes.

Russian nuclear weapons stand out in defense budget request
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/11/01/russian-nuclear-w
eapons-stand-out-in-defense-budget-request/

NIH Human Microbiome Project
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-microbiome-pro
ject-defines-normal-bacterial-makeup-body

Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991899/

“So to our 30 trillion human cells, we have on average about 39 trillion microbial cells. So by that measure, we’re only about 43% human,” said Rob Knight, director of the University of California San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation and professor of pediatrics and computer science and engineering.
https://www.voanews.com/a/research-estimates-we-are-only-about-43-perc
ent-human/4932876.html

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen.

P.S. Read Jane Hawk. James Bond is for idiots.

Who knows? You might even have an intimate relationship with nanobots yourself right now, mudblood.
For your anti-vaccine argument

Yes...

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, the human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass.

So what?

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6ix, the nanobots are already here.

I know. And they can be injected in your blood with a hypodermic needle.

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For your anti-nuke argument

I didn't make an anti-nuke argument.

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:24 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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For your anti-nuke argument

I didn't make an anti-nuke argument.

I'll quote you: "Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen." I'm sure nukes are for killing, either deliberately or by negligent homicide. For an example from the USA:

460,000 Premature Deaths: The Horror That Was Nuclear Weapons Testing
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/460000-premature-deaths-horror-
was-nuclear-weapons-testing-69512

Russia has killed a few, too, and there is no reason to be confident Putin will not use nukes in Ukraine. The Soviet Union's Nuclear Testing Programme
https://www.ctbto.org/nuclear-testing/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing/t
he-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme/

6ix, ask yourself what the world will do if Putin does nuke Kyiv? Just one little nuke to kill Zelenskyy and decapitate Ukraine's government. The most likely action is more of what the world has already done to Russia. Doing the same is not much of a deterrent. The world won't invade Russia if Putin nukes Kyiv and the world won't nuke Moscow, either. Nuking Kyiv doesn't seem like a bright idea, but then attempting to capture Kyiv didn't seem bright, either.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:35 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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For your anti-nuke argument

I didn't make an anti-nuke argument.
I'll quote you: "Nobody is nuking anybody, Karen."

Nope. Still not an anti-nuke argument.

I'm pro-Nuke. I'm pro-mutually assured destruction.

Putin isn't going to use nukes because Putin isn't what you think he is. If he has actually threatened their use, and in a world of deep-fakes and lying news I'm never going to concede that, he's just whipping out his dick and reminding the world that he's got them.

The only people I'm worried about having Nukes in our modern day are Muslim extremists who genuinely believe that when they kill people in the name of their "God" that they will be rewarded on the other side for it. Especially the ones that don't care if they die in the process. Fortunately for us, I don't believe that any of the "leaders" in the Middle-East actually believe that shit, so it's probably not very dangerous in their hands. "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes", and all of that...

But don't let it fall into the hands of the simple minded idiots that you're controlling through religion in the area that believe that 72 underage virgins are just up in the clouds waiting to open their legs for them if they set one off from a suitcase in the middle of town square.

Nukes won't be part of this equation, Karen.

But don't let me stop you from hiding out in a bunker the rest of your life with your fake cats and your fake wife and fake daughters.

Preferably one without internet access.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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SECOND

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm pro-Nuke. I'm pro-mutually assured destruction.

Putin isn't going to use nukes because Putin isn't what you think he is. If he has actually threatened their use, and in a world of deep-fakes and lying news I'm never going to concede that, he's just whipping out his dick and reminding the world that he's got them.

The only people I'm worried about having Nukes in our modern day are Muslim extremists who genuinely believe that when they kill people in the name of their "God" that they will be rewarded on the other side for it. Especially the ones that don't care if they die in the process. Fortunately for us, I don't believe that any of the "leaders" in the Middle-East actually believe that shit, so it's probably not very dangerous in their hands. But don't let it fall into the hands of the simple minded idiots in the area that believe that 72 underage virgins are just up in the clouds waiting to open their legs for them if they set one off from a suitcase.

Nukes won't be part of this equation, Karen.

But don't let me stop you from hiding out in a bunker the rest of your life with your fake cats and your fake wife and fake daughters.

Preferably one without internet access.

I'm saving your reply because you are so completely crazy that it makes me laugh. But most of what I see the lower class poor white trash say and do is funny. Maybe there should be a TV show called "Jackasses for Real" about all the stupid things Trump voters say and do in life before they die broke and prematurely.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 9:07 PM

Go ahead and save it, Arthur.

I'm not the one who goes back and deletes posts. That would be you.

Fortunately, I have your greatest hits archived, and a very long list of rather self-incriminating things you've said here in the past and tried and failed to delete after the fact.

And keep telling yourself I'm poor white trash dude. I haven't worked since Summer of 2019 and I'm not worried about where my next meal is coming from.

I've got work to do. I'll leave your lazy, worthless ass to worry about all the things that you don't need to worry about and wouldn't have any power to do anything about even if you did all day long.

Have another miserable day!

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 11:11 PM

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6ix, ask yourself what ... if Putin does nuke Kyiv?

Oh Jeez, the stupidity of your posts.

It's not enough that you hyperventilate about what tsars did 200 years ago, misquote Putin, "mind-read" to concoct false motives, and post dozens of other stupidities, you're now frothing "WHAT IF" about stuff that'll never happen???

Don't we have enough REAL problems to worry about without getting caught up in your irrelevant fantasies?

Personally, I'm more worried that we have a senile sockpuppet for President who's scripted by warhawks as out of touch with reality as you are. That we have an inflation problem on our hands and no production with which to tamp it down, that we're up to our ears in debt, that we're taking in millions of illegal aliens, and that our society is riven by DNC droids who can only win by pitting people against each other.

I'm glad I'm not participating much with your stupidity, SECOND.

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SECOND

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 3:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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SECOND

6ix, ask yourself what ... if Putin does nuke Kyiv?
Oh Jeez, the stupidity of your posts.

It's not enough that you hyperventilate about what tsars did 200 years ago, misquote Putin, "mind-read" to concoct false motives, and post dozens of other stupidities, you're now frothing "WHAT IF" about stuff that'll never happen???

Don't we have enough REAL problems to worry about without getting caught up in your irrelevant fantasies?

Personally, I'm more worried that we have a senile sockpuppet for President who's scripted by warhawks as out of touch with reality as you are. That we have an inflation problem on our hands and no production with which to tamp it down, that we're up to our ears in debt, that we're taking in millions of illegal aliens, and that our society is riven by DNC droids who can only win by pitting people against each other.

I'm glad I'm not participating much with your stupidity, SECOND.

Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor has ordered media across the country to only publish information provided by official sources. It also forbids describing the actions as an invasion or a war, instead insisting they are called "special military operations."
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-military-false-news/31737627.html

Signym, Russia has a history that goes back to 862. Unless there has been some kind of magic that has made Russians in 2022 completely different people, their characteristics had been set for a very long time. Putin, for example, has a long history, none of which looks like he is the kind of man who wouldn't murder President Zelenskyy by nuking Kyiv. Even recently, like today, Putin is "Denazifying" Ukraine by killing women and children. I'll give you a hint -- that is not how Denazification is done, Signym. What Putin is doing is straight forward conquest, but he won't even call it a war. A Russian calling it a war will be jailed under a new law passed this year.

A reminder of Russian character: 100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dea
d-1510011810

Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917
Conservatively calculated, 61,911,000 people were systematically killed by the Communist regime from 1917 to 1987.

Free copy from https://libgen.unblockit.llc/libraryp2/main/973A74FA929615971CB788BB9B
BB7F58

or buy a copy from https://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Politics-Soviet-Genocide-Murder/dp/08873
83335

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SIGNYM

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 7:41 AM

So,Russian behavior is genetic?

That's raciss.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

So,Russian behavior is genetic?

That's raciss.

Killing 100,000,000 people in 100 years is cultural, not genetic. Did Russian culture denounce the killings when the calendar moved forward from 1999 to 2000? No. The Russians denied everything, everywhere, all the time. One small Russian nuke exploding in Kyiv would be just one more little thing to deny.

100 Million Dead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dea
d-1510011810

Russian war crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 7:58 PM

Seriously, Second. Go live in a fucking bunker and bury your opinions along with yourself. The surface world will be more than fine without you.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 9:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Seriously, Second. Go live in a fucking bunker and bury your opinions along with yourself. The surface world will be more than fine without you.

I'm guessing that you misunderstood Putin when he said Russia would nuke any nation that interfered with his plans. He hasn't nuked, but maybe he will. He is certainly spending the money on nukes: 49 billion roubles will be allocated for the nuclear arms on an annual basis from 2022-2023. The figure for 2024 will be about 56 billion roubles.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/11/01/russian-nuclear-w
eapons-stand-out-in-defense-budget-request/

Putin Threatens to Nuke the World
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-threatens-nuke-world-opinion-1685241

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:20 AM

You are a fucking idiot.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You are a fucking idiot.

Today Putin said he'd nuke the USA if he loses in Ukraine. Signym would say Putin didn't, but he did in way that he could take back, or claim he was misunderstood, without admitting he had made a death threat.

Russia's defense ministry on Wednesday announced it held a test launch of a nuclear-capable, intercontinental ballistic missile. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the weapon—dubbed the Sarmat—and said it would force other countries to "think twice."

The test occurred at 3:12 p.m. Moscow time from a silo launcher at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, according to Russian officials. The Kremlin reported that Putin watched the launch via videoconference. Afterwards, he released a statement in which he congratulated Russia's defense ministry.

The launch took place as Russia continues its military attacks in Ukraine, which has caused tension between Putin and other world leaders. On March 23, The New York Times reported that the White House put together a team of national security officials to draft up responses should Putin resort to using any weapons of mass destruction, including those from Russia's nuclear arsenal, in Ukraine.

"This is a big, momentous event in the development of advanced weapons systems for the Russian Army," Putin said in his statement about the Sarmat's reportedly successful test. "The new complex has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is capable of overcoming all modern means of anti-missile defense. It has no analogues in the world and will not have any for a long time to come."

In televised remarks later on Wednesday, Putin said, "This truly unique weapon will force all who are trying to threaten our country in the heat of frenzied, aggressive rhetoric to think twice," The New York Times reported.

A 2020 report from the Atlantic Council described the Sarmat as a nuclear-capable "heavy" intercontinental ballistic missile.

"The Sarmat possesses a greater throw-weight, faster speeds, and improved survivability compared to its predecessor. It is slated to replace the Voevoda, known more commonly by its NATO reporting name, SS-18 Satan," the report stated.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-sarmat-missile-test-vladimir-putin-169
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 21, 2022 7:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You are a fucking idiot.
Today Putin said he'd nuke the USA if he loses in Ukraine. Signym would say Putin didn't, but he did in way that he could take back, or claim he was misunderstood, without admitting he had made a death threat.

Forget Sigs. I WILL SAY THAT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT.

Go hide in your bunker, retard.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 7:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You are a fucking idiot.
Today Putin said he'd nuke the USA if he loses in Ukraine. Signym would say Putin didn't, but he did in way that he could take back, or claim he was misunderstood, without admitting he had made a death threat.

Forget Sigs. I WILL SAY THAT HE DIDN'T SAY THAT.

Go hide in your bunker, retard.

I'm not hiding, 6ix. But Putin budgeted 49 billion roubles for nukes this year and the same amount next year and more the year after that. He is spending so he can believably threaten to nuke the USA. These Russian defense expenditures are readily available:
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/11/01/russian-nuclear-w
eapons-stand-out-in-defense-budget-request/

If 6ix wants to say Putin can't nuke the USA, 6ix is crazy and stupid and addicted to tobacco, three things which are deadly alone but especially lethal when one man combines all three. Nobody will be surprised, other than 6ix, when he abruptly drops dead from the fatal combination of crazy/stupid/nicotine.
Putin Threatens to Nuke the World
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-threatens-nuke-world-opinion-1685241

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:34 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If 6ix wants to say Putin can't nuke the USA

Learn to read you stupid, ignorant fuck.

I've got a gun. That doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you with it.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If 6ix wants to say Putin can't nuke the USA

Learn to read you stupid, ignorant fuck.

I've got a gun. That doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you with it.

Putin has a gun and says he will kill. If Putin was killed, before Putin fired a shot, it would be justified homicide. There is no law requiring Putin's intended victims to wait until after Putin shoots before they shoot him. Putin's life depends on Putin's victims being intimidated by him into doing nothing to Putin until too late.

Putin is a TV show villain. Putin is killing anybody he wants in Ukraine. He is threatening to kill anyone, anywhere in world, who stops him. Anyone includes Finland and Sweden for thinking about joining NATO. Anyone includes the USA and UK for being part of NATO. Putin is putting on an impressive show of villainy.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 21, 2022 6:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If 6ix wants to say Putin can't nuke the USA

Learn to read you stupid, ignorant fuck.

I've got a gun. That doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you with it.
Putin has a gun and says he will kill.

I still haven't heard him say that. He's the one who's got half the world being aggressors against him right now. I'd be reminding people that I had a gun too. If he were a skunk, he would have already sprayed.

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If Putin was killed, before Putin fired a shot, it would be justified homicide.

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There is no law requiring Putin's intended victims to wait until after Putin shoots before they shoot him.

Let's dig up your posts about Kyle Rittenhouse, shall we?

Quote:
Putin is a TV show villain.

Since Trump left office, US cable TV needed a villain. They made one.

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Friday, April 22, 2022 9:04 AM

The chain of command for a potential Russian nuclear strike

President Vladimir Putin has once again promoted Russia’s nuclear might against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, saying on Wednesday that a new ballistic missile system should make Moscow’s enemies stop and think.

Announcing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine eight weeks ago, Putin warned the West that any attempt to get in its way “will lead you to such consequences that you have never encountered in your history”. Days later, he ordered Russia’s nuclear forces to be put on high alert.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last month that “the prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility.”

Here is how Russia’s chain of command would work in the event of a nuclear weapon launch.

Who decides to launch Russian nuclear weapons?

A 2020 document called “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence” says the Russian president (Putin) takes the decision to use nuclear weapons. https://web.archive.org/web/20220303085303/https://archive.mid.ru/en/w
eb/guest/foreign_policy/international_safety/disarmament/-/asset_publisher/rp0fiUBmANaH/content/id/4152094

A small briefcase, known as the Cheget, is kept close to the president at all times, linking him to the command and control network of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces.

The Cheget does not contain a nuclear launch button but rather transmits launch orders to the central military command – the General Staff.

If Putin gives the nuclear order, what happens?

The Russian General Staff has access to the launch codes and has two methods of launching nuclear warheads.

It can send authorisation codes to individual weapons commanders, who then execute the launch procedures.

There is also a back-up system, known as Perimetr, which allows the General Staff to initiate the launch of land-based missiles directly, bypassing all the immediate command posts.

Did Putin’s ‘high alert’ order make a launch more likely?

After Putin said on February 27 that Russia’s deterrence forces – which include nuclear weapons – should be put on high alert, the defence ministry said the Strategic Missile Forces, the Northern and Pacific Fleets, and the Long-Range Aviation Command had been placed on “enhanced” combat duty, with reinforced personnel.

The term enhanced, or special, combat duty does not appear in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, leaving military experts puzzled over what it might mean.

Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, said on Twitter that the order might have activated Russia’s nuclear command and control system, essentially opening communication channels for any eventual launch order.

Alternatively, he said, it might just mean the Russians had expanded the staff at their nuclear facilities.

Does Russia have rules on using nuclear weapons?

The 2020 doctrine presents four scenarios that might justify the use of Russian nuclear weapons:

– the use of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies;

– data showing the launch of ballistic missiles aimed at Russia or its allies;

– an attack on critical government or military sites that would undermine the ability of Russia’s nuclear forces to respond to threats;

– the use of conventional weapons against Russia “when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy”.

What nuclear capabilities does Russia have?

The Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads, more than any other country. Of these, 1,588 are deployed and ready for use. Its missiles can be fired from land, by submarines and by airplanes.

Putin oversaw a coordinated test of Russia’s nuclear forces on February 19. On April 20, he was shown on TV being told by the military that the intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat, which has been under development for years, had been successfully test-launched for the first time. Russia’s nuclear f

THG

Friday, April 22, 2022 9:03 PM

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SECOND

Saturday, April 23, 2022 5:39 PM

A panel of Russian analysts on the state-run TV channel Russia-1 spoke about the Russian military test-firing a nuclear-capable missile and how it could damage areas in the U.S., such as New York City.

Russian state TV hosts and panelists giggled uncontrollably while discussing nuclear strikes against the continental territory of the United States. Can you imagine any of our prominent media anchors laughing at the idea of destroying cities?

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-response-russian-tv-nuclear-strike-d
iscussion-1700166

Why are Russians talking about nuking the USA? Because Russians are told they have two choices: Win this war or be destroyed. Aleksey Zhuravlyov, a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament, put a Kremlin spin on the war in Ukraine for the millions of viewers of an influential Russian talk show. Russia wasn’t really fighting Ukraine or Ukrainians; the real enemy was the American-led Western bloc. “We need to introduce a new term,” Zhuravlyov said. “Biden’s war.”

Given that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying humanity, it is bad news for everyone on the planet when Russians ask, as Putin once put it: “Why do we need the world if there is no Russia in it?”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinions-russians-are-told-they-h
ave-two-choices-win-this-war-or-be-destroyed/ar-AAWtL1N

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Saturday, April 23, 2022 6:41 PM

The threat of nuclear war gives Putin license to kill

History isn’t short of people to blame. You could say of the present world crisis that it was former president Barack Obama’s fault for not getting tougher with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Syria. You could blame former president Donald Trump for giving Putin a sense of entitlement and for undermining NATO, seeing it as a financial play. You could blame former German chancellor Angela Merkel for encouraging Russian gas imports, shutting out the nuclear energy option.

You could, of course, blame President Biden for explicitly telling Putin, and the world, what the United States wouldn’t do if he invaded Ukraine. And you could blame Biden and NATO for dribbling vital military aid to Ukraine over the first devastating months of the Russian invasion.

If you want to continue, you could blame the world’s military strategists for believing that Russia, after the fall of communism, had changed. You could, perhaps, blame NATO itself, for expanding its reach to the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Putin is unequivocally the one to blame. He is the one who wants to remake Russia in the image of the imperial tsars. It is a flawed scheme but a real one.

As the world grapples with the reality of Putin, the past informs but it doesn’t instruct. If NATO were to engage Russia with conventional forces, it would triumph. That is one lesson of Ukraine. Russian military forces are woefully inefficient, even incompetent.

Would it were that simple.

The beast in the room, the feared monster, the threat that hangs over the whole world is nuclear war. It is the clear-and-present danger. It shapes our handling of Russia and will shape our response to China, if and when it invades Taiwan.

Nuclear war avoidance is again dominating the world in ways we had nearly forgotten. Will Russia — a caged, fierce bear — resort to nuclear, and how much nuclear to what effect against which targets?

The United States and the Soviet Union reached a modus vivendi: mutual assured destruction (MAD), which kept the peace even as nuclear armaments proliferated and stockpiles grew exponentially. Is that still the option? Is MAD — so long after the collapse of the Soviet Union — still the underlying realpolitik, the restraining factor between nuclear powers?

Does that mean that anyone with nuclear weapons can wage conventional warfare in the belief that they won’t face NATO or any other serious restraining military action because they can unleash terrifying global destruction?

Or is there, as some believe, the prospect of limited nuclear engagement, using area tactical nuclear weapons? This has never been tested. There hasn’t been a limited nuclear ground war. Could it be contained? Should it be contemplated outside the deeper reaches of the defense establishment?

But it is what keeps the leaders of Europe, the United States and Canada awake nights. If you favor limited nuclear war, just look to the effects of a nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, and start multiplying.

It is the unthinkable scenario that must be thought about. It is the reality that holds back NATO and makes the West a spectator to the carnage in Ukraine.

Russia isn’t a rich country. It has a large, poorly trained and equipped military. But it bristles with nuclear weapons aimed at North American and European cities. Its ability to threaten us with nuclear horror changes the balance between nations: an indelible change to future foreign policy.

In the short term, when contemplating the return of MAD in international relations, the question is: How mad — as in insane — is Putin, and how ready is Biden?

The pieces on the world chess board have moved and they won’t be moved back. The intelligentsia has yet to grasp the extent to which Ukraine has changed the world — and made it a more dangerous place. They need to catch up fast.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-gi
ves-putin-license-to-kill/ar-AAWvgEb

https://www.myconfine

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, April 23, 2022 8:38 PM

lol

Thanks for posting that. Ted loves pictures.

There's nothing under the building in real life though.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 4:55 PM

Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive.

“Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a Russian television interview, according to a transcript on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.

Lavrov said he would not want to see risks of a nuclear confrontation “artificially inflated now, when the risks are rather significant.”

“The danger is serious,” he said. “It is real. It should not be underestimated.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter that Lavrov’s comments underscore Ukraine’s need for Western help: “Russia loses last hope to scare the world off supporting Ukraine. Thus the talk of a ‘real’ danger of WWIII. This only means Moscow senses defeat in Ukraine.”

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-business-nato
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 6:23 PM

Russia’s top diplomat said the West was engaged in a proxy war with his country that could escalate into a world war with nuclear weapons, as Western nations elevated their commitment to defending Ukraine.

“The risk is serious, real. It should not be underestimated,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a Russian state-television interview broadcast Monday night. “NATO is, in essence, going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last week said his government was treading carefully to avoid a nuclear war. But Germany said this week it would refurbish and send to Ukraine decommissioned antiaircraft cannon tanks known as Flakpanzer Gepard, or Cheetah, ending its longstanding reluctance to give tanks to the country.

For months, the U.K. has provided weapons on the proviso that they are used to defend Ukraine from Russian attack rather than offensively. But U.K. reversed that. “Things that the international community are now providing to Ukraine have the range to be used over the borders,” Mr. Heappey, who is U.K. minister for the Armed Forces.

Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, he has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear war, invoking his country’s atomic arsenal in an effort to deter the U.S. and the NATO from getting involved in the conflict.

But as Mr. Putin’s army has faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces strengthened by large infusions of Western weaponry, concerns have grown in Washington and allied capitals that Russia could consider using a so-called tactical nuclear weapon to gain the upper hand on the battlefield.

Earlier this month, Russia further warned that it could station nuclear forces in and around Kaliningrad — a Russian exclave wedged between Lithuania and Poland — and bolster its military presence there if Finland and Sweden join the NATO alliance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-lavrov-says-nato-risks-t
urning-ukraine-conflict-into-a-world-war/ar-AAWBIkb

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 6:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
“NATO is, in essence, going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.”

CORRECTION: America is going to war with Russia while straight up arming the proxy of a proxy.

If Democrats want war with Russia so bad, then declare it and send the things you've created in Public Schools to go fight it already.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
“NATO is, in essence, going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.”

CORRECTION: America is going to war with Russia while straight up arming the proxy of a proxy.

If Democrats want war with Russia so bad, then declare it and send the things you've created in Public Schools to go fight it already.

World War II began in September of 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The United States would not join the Allied war effort until December 7, 1941 when it was attacked by the Japanese Empire in Pearl Harbor. You might say World War II started when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The Philippines would be next with the Bataan Death March of captured Americans.

So, 6ix, why then did the United States not join the war effort before the Pearl Harbor attack? Lack of imagination. Germans and Japanese kept telling America about the countries that would be conquered, but Republicans in the Senate couldn't imagine it would happen. It took years, and thousands of highly dramatic American deaths involving flames and explosions and heroics, to get those Republicans to change their minds.

Putin has kept telling America about countries that would be conquered -- countries that joined NATO. It does not take much imagination to believe Russians will be executing Putin's plan, especially when Russia has the ultimate weapon and keeps threatening at least once a week to use it on NATO countries.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:07 PM

If NATO has any power at all, why do we have to be involved at all?

Perhaps NATO should be disbanded if it can't function without us.

We've got our own invasion happening at our Southern border to worry about.

And until we do, nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If NATO has any power at all, why do we have to be involved at all?

Perhaps NATO should be disbanded if it can't function without us.

We've got our own invasion happening at our Southern border to worry about.

And until we do, nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

When Putin is finished with Ukraine, he will be invading another NATO country, but not Germany nor France nor UK nor USA.

Germany, France and the UK would have done nothing, as all weak countries will do nothing, until they are attacked. The USA helped Ukraine and then those other countries decided to help. If the USA stops helping, all other countries stop because their whiny cowardly cheapskate citizens don't want their Prime Minister to get involved. All of NATO would just stand back and watch as Putin invades the next NATO country.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If NATO has any power at all, why do we have to be involved at all?

Perhaps NATO should be disbanded if it can't function without us.

We've got our own invasion happening at our Southern border to worry about.

And until we do, nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
When Putin is finished with Ukraine, he will be invading another NATO country, but not Germany nor France nor UK nor USA.

Germany, France and the UK would have done nothing, as all weak countries will do nothing, until they are attacked. The USA helped Ukraine and then those other countries decided to help. If the USA stops helping, all other countries stop because their whiny cowardly cheapskate citizens don't want their Prime Minister to get involved. All of NATO would just stand back and watch as Putin invades the next NATO country.

Exactly.

Thank you for proving my point.

Disband NATO.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Exactly.

Thank you for proving my point.

Disband NATO.

I think Putin had great plan to conquer Europe, one country at a time. If Ukraine had a president much like Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, the guy who immediately fled the country, Ukraine would have fallen two months ago and Putin would be moving troops to border of the next country on his hit list. But the USA had already sent enough ammo to stop Putin until more ammo arrived. So long as the USA and the other NATO countries don't run out ammo for Ukraine, Putin can't move to the next country on his secret hit list. Speculation is that Moldova is next for Putin.

Explosions rock Moldova after Russia suggests it could be its next target in Europe
https://www.foxnews.com/world/moldova-explosions-russia-next-target

Moldova urges calm, steps up security after blasts in Russia-backed breakaway region
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/moldova-urges-calm-steps-
up-security-after-blasts-in-russia-backed-breakaway-region/

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 1:53 AM

Nah.

It's about keeping NATO out of his backyard.

You're an idiot.

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Sunday, May 1, 2022 4:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Exactly.

Thank you for proving my point.

Disband NATO.
I think Putin had great plan to conquer Europe, one country at a time. If Ukraine had a president much like Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, the guy who immediately fled the country, Ukraine would have fallen two months ago and Putin would be moving troops to border of the next country on his hit list. But the USA had already sent enough ammo to stop Putin until more ammo arrived. So long as the USA and the other NATO countries don't run out ammo for Ukraine, Putin can't move to the next country on his secret hit list. Speculation is that Moldova is next for Putin.

Explosions rock Moldova after Russia suggests it could be its next target in Europe
https://www.foxnews.com/world/moldova-explosions-russia-next-target

Moldova urges calm, steps up security after blasts in Russia-backed breakaway region
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/moldova-urges-calm-steps-
up-security-after-blasts-in-russia-backed-breakaway-region/

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

If Putin’s plan was to keep NATO from encroaching any further towards Russia’s border, he fucked up big time. Finland went from about 17% wanting to join NATO to 61% after Putin invaded Ukraine. When Finland joins NATO in a few weeks, it will double NATO’s border with Russia. That’s just one way Putin fucked up. The rest are too numerous to list.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, May 1, 2022 7:38 PM

Polling results brought to you by Pfizer... brought to you by BlackRock... brought to you by NATO.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

THG

Sunday, May 1, 2022 9:13 PM

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US, UK, France Dock Nuke Submarines In Scotland l NATO's Clear Message To Putin Amid Ukraine War?

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 2, 2022 1:37 AM

Nobody cares.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

SECOND

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:37 PM

Ireland has called for a diplomatic response to Moscow after mocked-up images on Russian state television showed nuclear weapons destroying Ireland and the U.K.

During a segment on Russia's Channel One, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov described a nuclear attack as a graphic showed the islands of Ireland and Great Britain being wiped off the map.

"The island is so small that just one Sarmat missile is sufficient to sink it once and for all," said Kiselyov on Sunday, as he boasted about the nuclear-capable weapon Russia tested last month.

Kiselyov also said that a Poseidon nuclear underwater drone, an experimental Russian weapon, could "plunge the British Isles into the depths of the sea." He said that the 100-megaton warhead could cause a "gigantic tidal wave up to 500 meters (1,600 feet) high," which would also carry "extreme doses of radiation."

An Irish Foreign Affairs Department spokesperson told Newsweek in a statement that "there can be no justification for threatening use of nuclear weapons. Ireland has long argued that nuclear weapons offer no security, and their use would result in devastating humanitarian consequences."

The BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg said about the comments by Kiselyov, considered as one of the Kremlin's chief propagandists, "It's another attempt by the Kremlin to demonize the West in the eyes of the Russian public, to get Russians to believe the Kremlin narrative that their country is a besieged fortress surrounded by enemies."

The rhetoric on Russia's Channel One pushing the Kremlin's narrative about Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has repeatedly referred to Russia's nuclear capabilities.

Last week, Duma deputy Aleksey Zhuravlyov, chairman of the nationalist Rodina political party, told the Russian program 60 Minutes that the Sarmat missile should target the U.K. because of its support for Ukraine.

During the discussion, panelists discussed the prospect of European cities being hit by Russian missiles.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-tv-nuclear-ireland-uk-ukraine-kremlin-
propaganda-1702909

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

THG

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Ireland has called for a diplomatic response to Moscow after mocked-up images on Russian state television showed nuclear weapons destroying Ireland and the U.K.

Putin and his cronies just can't keep from weakening themselves while strengthening the West. I for one greatly appreciate it.

Thanks Putty.

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SECOND

Friday, May 6, 2022 7:34 PM

Russia Ambassador to U.S. Says NATO Not Taking Nuclear War Threat Seriously, but that is false:

U.S. Strategic Command chief Admiral Charles A. Richard said, "The nation and our allies have not faced a crisis like Russia's invasion of Ukraine in over 30 years. President Putin simultaneously invaded a sovereign nation while using thinly veiled nuclear threats to deter U.S. and NATO intervention."

The United States has made clear its concerns about Russia's arsenal of theater-range nuclear weapons, which commonly refers to weapons armed with low-yield, tactical warheads, of which the U.S. Intelligence Community assesses Russia possesses between 1,000-2,000, a figure that is projected to grow.

Russia's envoy to the United States has told Newsweek that leaders of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance do not grasp the true gravity of a potential nuclear conflict erupting, as a tense war of words among powers looms over the ongoing fighting in Ukraine.

As officials and other influential figures of the U.S. and allied nations accuse the Kremlin of summoning the specter of nuclear war over NATO's support for Ukraine against Russia's devastating invasion, Moscow's ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, disparaged what he called "a flurry of blatant misrepresentation of Russian officials' statements on our country's nuclear policy."

In fact, he said it was those in the Western bloc that have proven irresponsible in their handling of what has been described as one of the most dangerous moments since the Cuban Missile Crisis six decades ago.

"The current generation of NATO politicians clearly does not take the nuclear threat seriously," Antonov told Newsweek.

And while U.S. officials cast Russia as the aggressor in escalating nuclear tensions, Antonov called these accusations "baseless," and "part of a propaganda campaign launched against Russia in response to the steps taken to neutralize threats to our national security emanating from the Ukrainian territory."

He then outlined the "conditions under which the use of nuclear weapons is possible" as per Russia's official doctrine, which he said states that such weapons of mass destruction "can be used in response to the use of WMD against Russia and its allies, or in the event of aggression against our country, when the very existence of the state is jeopardized."

Rhetoric touched upon the potential for nuclear escalation in the opening days of the conflict, especially after Putin announced on February 27 that his nuclear forces were being placed "on a special mode of combat duty."

Antonov said Western nations "misinterpreted the decision." But Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu "publicly explained that it was only about the work shifts of strategic forces commands which began to perform combat duties with reinforced personnel."

"This means that Russia has increased its vigilance against the backdrop of extremely confrontational statements by Western countries," Antonov said, "including NATO member states that possess nuclear weapons." Three possess nukes and none of the three threatened to nuke Russia, but Russia repeatedly threatened to nuke them over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, just to clarify.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ambassador-us-says-nato-not-taking-nuc
lear-war-threat-seriously-1703968

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

SECOND

Friday, May 6, 2022 7:56 PM

Putin tells the world, once again, that he is ready to nuke them:

President Vladimir Putin will send a "doomsday" warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.

A fly-past over St Basil's Cathedral will include the Il-80 "doomsday" command plane, which would carry Russia's top brass in the event of a nuclear war, the Defence Ministry said.

In that scenario, the Il-80 is designed to become the roaming command centre for the Russian president. It is packed with technology but specific details are Russian state secrets.

Putin has repeatedly likened the war in Ukraine to the challenge the Soviet Union faced when Adolf Hitler's Nazis invaded in 1941.

"The attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be a mistake that cost our people dearly," Putin said on Feb. 24 when he announced what he called a special military operation in Ukraine.

"We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right."

Less than two decades ago, U.S. President George W. Bush joined Putin for the May 9 celebrations in Moscow. This year no Western leader was invited, the Kremlin said.

The Kremlin did not respond to requests for comment on what Putin might say in his speech, to be delivered from the Red Square tribune in front of Vladimir Lenin's Mausoleum.

Last year, Putin jabbed at Western exceptionalism and what he said was the rise of neo-Nazism and Russophobia - trends he has returned to again and again when addressing the issue of Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-send-doomsday-warning-west-
russias-ww2-victory-parade-2022-05-06/

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

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Friday, May 6, 2022 8:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Putin has repeatedly likened the war in Ukraine to the challenge the Soviet Union faced when Adolf Hitler's Nazis invaded in 1941.

"The attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be a mistake that cost our people dearly," Putin said on Feb. 24 when he announced what he called a special military operation in Ukraine.

"We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right."

Turns out the whole freaking country is still/newly fixated on WWII. Part of Putin's new propaganda push. There's even a word for it:

"But already for some years, the victory cult has been referred to by critics as pobedobesie, a derogatory play on the Russian words for victory and obscurantism – “victorymania” is an approximate English translation."

Much more about the new obsession and how Putin is using it to stoke hatred of anything not Russia:

https://bit.ly/3LQb3rl

"Rhetoric of 1945 victory over Nazis has become more twisted over two decades of Putin’s rule

Many see this talk of “denazification” as pure propaganda. For sure, there have been other convincing explanations offered for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a fear of Nato expansion, a post-imperial disdain for Ukrainian language and culture, and an isolated leader who spent the Covid pandemic in a bunker pondering his legacy.

But the rhetoric of victory and of fighting Nazis, which has become gradually more twisted over the past two decades, also plays a role.

Of course, it takes a particular mindset to look at Russia’s expansionist war, with the executions, targeting of civilians, filtration camps and harassment of dissidents at home, and come to the conclusion that it is the Ukrainians who are the Nazis.

As this pobedobesie metastasised year on year, the phenomenon took on forms that were ever more grotesque: schools put on performances in which the children dressed up as Soviet soldiers; people posing as captured Nazis were paraded through the streets. Ever more opponents of modern Russia were branded as Nazis, neo-Nazis or Nazi accomplices."

Turns out everyone who isn't Russian is a Nazi.

https://bit.ly/3LQb3rl

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 6, 2022 8:26 PM

Nobody cares.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

THG

Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Turns out everyone who isn't Russian is a Nazi.

https://bit.ly/3LQb3rl]

Which means all Putin's followers are the real Nazi's. With the introduction of cell phones and the internet it has become apparent the Russians who live by the lie suffer from learned helplessness.

Learned helplessness occurs when a person believes that they cannot overcome challenges even if given an opportunity to do so. It usually occurs after repeated exposure to mental trauma, abuse, and psychological maltreatment.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:31 PM

You morons already removed any meaning from the word Nazi since 2016.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

SECOND

Monday, May 9, 2022 3:42 AM

Russian Space Boss Warns Against Nuclear War: NATO 'Destroyed in Half Hour'

"In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

Then the Russian switched to pious mode, as if he hadn't just made a threat to nuke Europe:

"But we must not allow it, because the consequences of the exchange of nuclear strikes will affect the state of our Earth," he said. "Therefore, we will have to defeat this economically and militarily more powerful enemy by conventional military means."

"Such a victory is possible with the full solidarity of the entire country with the army, with the mobilization of the state economy, with the transfer of the military-industrial complex and related industrial sectors of Russia to a military footing," he wrote. "And this must be done immediately and quickly."

In another post, Rogozin said NATO was "waging war" against Russia, using Ukrainian forces to fight a proxy conflict.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-space-boss-warns-against-nuclear-war-1
704567

The more Russians talk about nukes, the more likely they are terrified this war is already lost unless they use nukes. They never clarify whether they want to nuke only Kyiv, nuke all of Ukraine, nuke just the 3 countries in NATO that have nukes, nuke all of NATO, or nuke the world. Maybe nuking Putin would be Russia's best nuclear option.

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

SIGNYM

Monday, May 9, 2022 3:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russian Space Boss Warns Against Nuclear War: NATO 'Destroyed in Half Hour'

"In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

So, what they're saying is .. don't start a nuclear war bc you won't win.

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

SECOND

Monday, May 9, 2022 6:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russian Space Boss Warns Against Nuclear War: NATO 'Destroyed in Half Hour'

"In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

So, what they're saying is .. don't start a nuclear war bc you won't win.

That is a dimwitted interpretation, SignyM. What the Russians have been broadcasting is that Putin's military will destroy Ukraine the old fashion way with artillery, but if that doesn't work fast enough, before glorious leader Putin, the pinnacle of virile manhood, loses his cool there are always nukes, but Russia won't use the nukes because Russia is full of humanitarians/ecologists/friends-of-the-Earth who care so deeply for the preciousness of all life. You know that beep-beep noise dump trucks make when backing up? That sound is on Russian TV news as it dumps another truck load of bullshit about the war and how Putin is winning because he is a big wiener same as Trump is a wiener.

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

SIGNYM

Monday, May 9, 2022 9:51 AM

Whatever.

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

THG

Monday, May 9, 2022 6:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:

Whatever.

Putin's getting spanked Polish Russian Collaborator loser Signym.

Can you see me laughing? I told you so. For years I have been telling you and comrade kiki so. For years I have been telling you America would take you down for fucking with us. Putin stupidly going into Ukraine made it possible for us to do that now. Not next year, not in the next decade, nope, now.

You can’t possibly know how much I am enjoying watching Putin and the Russian army getting their asses kicked. You have no Idea how much I will enjoy the next decade as Russia tries to drag itself out of the gutter as a third world country. That part of this stupid war I take great solace in.

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THG

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:21 AM

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THG

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2:22 AM

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SECOND

Friday, May 13, 2022 1:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Whatever.

Today, Russia again threatened the world with nukes. I expect a nuclear threat from Russia at least once per week from now to Christmas.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is warning Thursday that the "pumping of Ukraine by NATO countries with weapons" brings the risk of the conflict "turning into a full-fledged nuclear war."

Medvedev, who now is the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote in a Telegram post that such an escalation would be a "catastrophic scenario for everyone."

"The pumping of Ukraine by NATO countries with weapons, the training of its troops to use Western equipment, the dispatch of mercenaries and the conduct of exercises by the countries of the Alliance near our borders increase the likelihood of a direct and open conflict between NATO and Russia instead of their ‘war by proxy,’" he said.

"Such a conflict always has the risk of turning into a full-fledged nuclear war," Medvedev added.

"You just need to think about the possible consequences of your actions," he also wrote in the post.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/medvedev-nato-russia-ukraine-war-nuclear
-warning

Meanwhile,

Lithuanian foreign minister says Putin and Russian regime must be removed to stop ‘warmongering’

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the removal of not only Vladimir Putin, but the entire regime that supports him, is necessary to stop Russia’s “warmongering” and predicted the Kremlin leader will become increasingly erratic as his battlefield losses grow in Ukraine.

Landsbergis also said his nation is seeking a permanent US troop presence, calling it “the biggest deterrent to an aggressor like Russia,” as well as fortified support from NATO at next month’s leaders’ summit in Madrid.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/lithuanian-foreign-minister-in
terview/index.html

Once Putin hears about Lithuania, maybe this weekend Russia will threaten to nuke the world. Maybe two threats or even three nuclear threats per week will be coming in the future.

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

SECOND

Saturday, May 14, 2022 4:03 PM

How many seconds does it take for a ballistic missile to reach London, Paris or Berlin?

That’s the question pundits on Russian state TV were pondering as the war in Ukraine entered its third month.

The eerie estimates were accompanied by a graphic showing the trajectories that Moscow’s intercontinental ballistic missiles would take to reach the capitals of European nations that supply Kyiv with the most military aid.

All the while, pro-Kremlin host Olga Skabeyeva and the experts on her “60 Minutes” show on the Russia-1 TV channel were nonchalantly joking about how the West should tune in.

Just months ago, the graphic, the rhetoric and the seeming casualness of such conversations would have been shocking, even by the standards of Russian propaganda.

But with Russia’s military struggling, its rivals emboldened and the neighbor it invaded responding with defiance, NBC News watched dozens of hours of state media coverage to find the Kremlin and its mouthpieces increasingly reaching for new and more outlandish claims to justify the Ukraine invasion.

“The Kremlin has relatively few instruments to try and influence the West, and therefore it’s resorting to all this spine-chilling rhetoric as a means of attempted intimidation,” said Mark Galeotti, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank based in London. That leaves “the dark power of looking crazy and dangerous” as one of the very few tools at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disposal, he said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-tv-jokes-nuclear-missiles-lo
ndon-putin-propaganda-ukraine-war-rcna28067

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, May 14, 2022 8:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
All the while, pro-Kremlin host Olga Skabeyeva and the experts on her “60 Minutes” show on the Russia-1 TV channel were nonchalantly joking about how the West should tune in.

They probably should.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

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

SECOND

Thursday, May 19, 2022 1:12 AM

Military-Industrial Complex Is Itching to Send “Hunter-Killer” Drones to Ukraine

After failing to convince the Biden administration to ship NATO fighter jets to Ukraine, the military-industrial complex is now trying to coax the White House into sending unmanned fighter jets to counter Russia’s invasion. Kyiv reportedly met with the major defense contractor General Atomics about obtaining the “Hunter-Killer” MQ-9 Reaper drone, armed with Hellfire missiles, which the U.S. has infamously used in botched airstrikes that killed and maimed civilians in Afghanistan, Somalia, and other countries around the world. The company and Kyiv’s allies in Washington are appealing to policymakers to greenlight the export, despite the high risk of escalation that could turn the devastating war nuclear.

Take retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of the influential and General Atomics-funded Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, who penned an op-ed in Forbes advocating for the U.S. to give Ukraine Reapers in March, before Kyiv’s interest was publicly known. He blasted skeptics who voiced concern about offering Poland’s MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, saying they’re “being cowed by Putin,” the Russian president.

In a phone call with The Intercept, Deptula reiterated his hawkish stance, arguing concern about conflict escalation “is being fed by the Russians through a very sophisticated information operations campaign to deter U.S. and NATO actions to assist the Ukrainians. Anything’s fair up to, but not including, the use of NATO forces in the conduct of hostile operations against the Russians.”

“Approve this, US Govt.,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., tweeted last month when the Washington Post reported that Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. met with General Atomics. Notorious for calling on the U.S. to enforce a dangerous no-fly zone over Ukraine, Kinzinger, along with Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Penn., also asked the Defense Department to report on how long it would take to train a Ukrainian pilot to fly the MQ-9. This week, senior fellows from the General Atomics-funded Hudson Institute wrote an op-ed in The Dispatch endorsing sending Ukraine Reapers as well. And General Atomics sends lobbyists to Washington specifically to influence the strict export policy that the U.S. has enforced to limit the global proliferation of such dangerous drones.

The White House has shown an increased willingness to give Ukraine weapons as the war in Ukraine has dragged on and U.S. aims shift toward seeing a “weakened” Russia. Initially, it was only willing to give shoulder-fired missiles; backpack-sized drones called Switchblades strapped with grenades; and encrypted communications equipment. More recently, the administration has greenlighted heavy artillery weapons, armored personnel carriers, and longer-flying experimental drones called Phoenix Ghosts.

. . . Hartung warned that giving Reapers to Ukraine in service of weakening Russia, as stated by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, can especially be dangerous.

“A policy of trying to weaken Russia risks pushing Putin into a corner and increasing the risks of escalation of the conflict to a direct U.S.-Russia war, with all the risks that entails, including the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons,” he said.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220518190306/https://theintercept.com/20
22/05/18/ukraine-reaper-drones-weapons-transfer/

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

SECOND

Friday, May 20, 2022 1:06 AM

The chances of the Russian tyrant launching a nuclear strike are receding as it is likely people would refuse to carry out his order.

That’s according to expert and investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who suggests Putin is losing his grip on power.

He says leading officials are unlikely to obey Putin’s commands to launch nukes as they don’t trust he will still be in power in three months time.

‘I think that it is the informed elite within the security forces who understand that the war is lost,’ Grozev told Radio Liberty.

He said Putin’s inner circle understand the president would need a full mass mobilisation to win the war, but this would cause a ‘social explosion’ in Russia.

Some hardliners may pressure for use of nuclear or chemical weapons, Grozev warned.

But others will say ‘enough is enough’ and ‘it is better not to waste another 10,000 lives of our soldiers and officers’.

Grozev, lead Russia investigator for investigative journalist group Bellingcat, said one or more of the ‘five hands’ needed to launch Russia’s nukes could end up defying Putin.

‘And this refusal will be the trigger, most likely, a coup d’état, because after the refusal to comply with the order of the king, everything will go down very quickly,’ he added.

‘If Putin decides to give an order to use nuclear weapons, he must be sure that everyone along the chain will carry out this order.’

If one person does not comply, Grozev says this will be a ‘signal of insubordination’ which could lead to the ‘death of Putin’.

‘So until he is sure that everyone will comply, he will not give this order,’ he added.

It is known that defence minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the defence staff Valery Gerasimov would both need to sanction a nuclear strike.

During the war, Putin has made a point of being seen in public with an official carrying the nuclear briefcase.

Defence ministry flights for Russia’s elite to a supposed command and control bunker near Ufa – 725 miles east of Moscow – have reduced since earlier in the war, according to Grozev.

The journalist said senior figures from the FSB security agency and the GRU military intelligence organisation are preparing for life after Putin.

He said the ‘FSB elite’ knows exactly how many Russian troops have died in Ukraine and knows that the loved ones of the dead or missing ‘do not stop asking questions’.

‘They know that this situation will eventually get out of hand,’ Grozev added.

‘These are those parts of the security forces who know the dangers for the regime, and they themselves are now preparing their future.

‘Some of them are looking for an opportunity to take their families out of Russia, all are looking for ways to transfer the accumulated money (corruption money in many cases) into dollars and euros.

‘This is already a kind of betrayal by these people, because they do not follow the ideological orders of the Kremlin, but are preparing for an alternative reality.’

https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/19/putins-inner-circle-believe-ukraine-war
-is-lost-and-russia-faces-coup-16672422/

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

THG

Sunday, May 22, 2022 3:56 PM

Sen. Mitt Romney suggests 'NATO could engage' in Ukraine, 'potentially obliterating Russia's struggling military' if Putin used nuclear weapons

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sen-mitt-romney-suggests-nato-cou
ld-engage-in-ukraine-potentially-obliterating-russia-s-struggling-military-if-putin-used-nuclear-weapons/ar-AAXzVqo?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=c979fdc6201f4dd8b49428cdc6a5985a

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SECOND

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 5:11 PM

Russian State TV Discusses How to 'Destroy East and West Coasts of U.S.'

A Russian politician discussed what the country would need to do to destroy the east and west coasts of the U.S. in a clip that has gone viral on social media.

While speaking on Russian state TV, Aleksey Zhuravlyov insisted Russia had the military capability to destroy America's coasts and said that the U.S. was trying to "raise the stakes."

The video has also gone viral on Twitter.

While the Russian politician makes his claims in the clip, an English translation can be seen running along the bottom of the page.

Newsweek was able to independently verify that the words accompanying the video match what is being said.

More at https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-war-east-coast-u-s-w
ar-ukraine-destroy-viral-1711566

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

THG

Monday, June 6, 2022 10:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russian State TV Discusses How to 'Destroy East and West Coasts of U.S.'

A Russian politician discussed what the country would need to do to destroy the east and west coasts of the U.S. in a clip that has gone viral on social media.

While speaking on Russian state TV, Aleksey Zhuravlyov insisted Russia had the military capability to destroy America's coasts and said that the U.S. was trying to "raise the stakes."

The video has also gone viral on Twitter.

While the Russian politician makes his claims in the clip, an English translation can be seen running along the bottom of the page.

Newsweek was able to independently verify that the words accompanying the video match what is being said.

More at https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-war-east-coast-u-s-w
ar-ukraine-destroy-viral-1711566

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

Poor Russia...

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russian State TV Discusses How to 'Destroy East and West Coasts of U.S.'

A Russian politician discussed what the country would need to do to destroy the east and west coasts of the U.S. in a clip that has gone viral on social media.

While speaking on Russian state TV, Aleksey Zhuravlyov insisted Russia had the military capability to destroy America's coasts and said that the U.S. was trying to "raise the stakes."

The video has also gone viral on Twitter.

While the Russian politician makes his claims in the clip, an English translation can be seen running along the bottom of the page.

Newsweek was able to independently verify that the words accompanying the video match what is being said.

More at https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-war-east-coast-u-s-w
ar-ukraine-destroy-viral-1711566

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

Poor Russia...

Any time I read or hear what any of these Russian mooks say I have to remind myself just how we got here, what the flash point was that started all this. And then I remember: there wasn't any - there is no fcking reason. Everything anyone from Russia has to say about any of this, all their lies and funny bullsht speculation on Russia TV is to cover for Putin. Total fwad.

SECOND

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:

Any time I read or hear what any of these Russian mooks say I have to remind myself just how we got here, what the flash point was that started all this. And then I remember: there wasn't any - there is no fcking reason. Everything anyone from Russia has to say about any of this, all their lies and funny bullsht speculation on Russia TV is to cover for Putin. Total fwad.

This is a believable reason: Vladimir Putin Invaded Ukraine Over Control Of Their Oil And Gas Reserves

Vladimir Putin claimed he invaded Ukraine over eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. However, this video essay by RealLifeLore makes a convincing case that Russia did it for control of the country's natural resources.

Putin would NOT talk about this because his soldiers would want a cut of the money. Putin will not be increasing their wages by 1,000%, although he could if the Army does conquer Ukraine. All that petroleum and natural gas money is for Putin's bank account, not for the soldiers who make it possible by giving their lives for Putin to get richer and more powerful.

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

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, June 9, 2022 2:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
This is a believable reason: Vladimir Putin Invaded Ukraine Over Control Of Their Oil And Gas Reserves

Vladimir Putin claimed he invaded Ukraine over eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. However, this video essay by RealLifeLore makes a convincing case that Russia did it for control of the country's natural resources.

Putin would NOT talk about this because his soldiers would want a cut of the money. Putin will not be increasing their wages by 1,000%, although he could if the Army does conquer Ukraine. All that petroleum and natural gas money is for Putin's bank account, not for the soldiers who make it possible by giving their lives for Putin to get richer and more powerful.

I meant to watch this last time you posted it - thanks. Caught the first 5 minutes so far - good stuff, high caliber. I'll definitely will check out more of this producer's videos. I'm looking forward to finding out how much oil Ukraine produces and why haven't they been known for producing an amount worth stealing (that I know of). And why they got rid of their nukes.

SECOND

Monday, June 20, 2022 6:25 PM

Customary international humanitarian laws and treaties — including the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their protocols — demand that the driving principle in war be military necessity, which mandates all combatants direct their actions toward legitimate military targets. The law requires a balance between a military mission and humanity. Combatants must not carry out attacks that are disproportionate, where the expected civilian harm is clearly excessive, according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to the direct and concrete military advantage that would be anticipated. Combatants must consider distinction, that attacks are directed only toward lawful targets and people and are not applied indiscriminately. And they must not use weapons calculated to inflict unnecessary suffering.

“The Russians have violated every single one of those principles almost daily,” said Mike Newton, a Vanderbilt University law professor who frequently supports efforts to prosecute war crimes all over the world.

“The law of war is far more demanding than the rule of simple expediency and convenience,” Professor Newton said. “Just because I have a weapon doesn’t mean I can use it.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20220620010520/https://www.nytimes.com/int
eractive/2022/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-munitions-war-crimes.html

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

SECOND

Saturday, July 9, 2022 4:22 PM

A Russian Navy submarine armed with a strategic nuclear torpedo the size of a school bus was delivered to the Kremlin this week. (July 8, 2022 11:12 AM)

Poseidon, first revealed in 2015, is a nuclear strategic weapon that would have a range of thousands of miles and would “destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country’s territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time,” according to a translation of a Russian presentation caught on camera by the BBC.

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/08/doomsday-submarine-armed-with-nuclear
-torpedoes-delivers-to-russian-navy

The Poseidon "doomsday" device is designed to travel up to 5,000 nm at a speed of 50-100 knots, transit to a harbor or near-coastal area, and detonate a nuclear warhead. The immediate effects of the explosion would be extreme, but the real objective would be to coat wide swathes of the surrounding coastline with radioactive fallout - an enduring and difficult-to-remediate hazard of underwater nuclear detonations.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/russian-navy-takes-delivery-of-
world-s-longest-submarine

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

SECOND

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:59 PM

Commentators desperately cling to the hope that Putin is just one wild man, that around him are people who will eventually find the spine to overthrow him. Remarks were made recently by a representative of Rosneft, Russia’s largest state oil company. “You must have heard it,” Alyokhina says, with frustration, but no, I have not. “He promoted Adolf Hitler. He said that, of all the decisions in the west, the Anglo-Saxons are the most guilty people. The first nuclear bomb must be dropped on Great Britain. This is what we have, in our so-called news. They are speaking about nuclear bombs almost every day.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/11/pussy-riot-maria-alyokhi
na-putin-crimes-hitler-years-of-resistance

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:42 PM

blah blah blah

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

SECOND

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 3:00 AM

Blinken accuses Russia of 'reckless, dangerous nuclear saber rattling'

(CNN)Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday called on Russia to live up to its nuclear arms control commitments, accusing Moscow of "reckless, dangerous nuclear saber rattling" as part of its war in Ukraine and warning of the negative impact the war will have on this month's conference to recommit to the importance of nuclear non-proliferation.

In remarks at the start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations, the top US diplomat warned that the landmark agreement is "under increasing strain" due to not only the actions of Russia, but also of North Korea and Iran.

Officials have acknowledged the challenges that Russia's war in Ukraine will present at the review conference -- which is typically held every five years but had been delayed for two due to the coronavirus pandemic -- and the prospects of all parties agreeing to a consensus document at the conclusion of the month-long gathering.

In his remarks, Blinken noted that Russia had joined with the other NPT nuclear states -- the United States, United Kingdom, France, and China -- in a joint statement in January emphasizing the importance of avoiding nuclear war and arms races, but "the very next month, Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine."

US unveils new sanctions targeting 'illicit' support for Iranian oil industry

"It's engaging in reckless, dangerous nuclear saber rattling, with its president warning that those supporting Ukraine self-defense 'risk consequences such as you have never seen in your entire history,'" Blinken said.

Unlike in January, only three of the NPT nuclear states -- the US, UK, and France -- released a joint statement Monday at the start of the conference, in which they called on Russia "to cease its irresponsible and dangerous nuclear rhetoric and behaviour, to uphold its international commitments, and to recommit -- in words and deeds -- to the principles enshrined in the recent Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races Leaders' statement," referencing the one released in January.

Blinken said Russia's war is in violation of the UN Charter, the rules-based international order, and the Budapest Memorandum -- the 1994 agreement under which Russia pledged to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and Kyiv agreed to forfeit its nuclear weapon arsenal.

"What message does this send to any country around the world that may think that it needs to have nuclear weapons to protect, to defend, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence? The worst possible message," he said. "And so it's directly relevant to what's going on here this month at the United Nations."

"Most recently, we saw Russia's aggression with its seizure of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such plant in all of Europe," Blinken continued. "Russia is now using the plant as a military base to fire at Ukrainians, knowing that they can't and won't shoot back because they might accidentally strike a reactor or highly radioactive waste in storage."

"That brings the notion of having a human shield to an entirely different and horrific level," he said.

Blinken says he had 'frank' discussion with Russian foreign minister in first call since Ukraine war began

Blinken contrasted the actions by Moscow to those of the US, which he said has sought to avoid escalation "by forgoing previously scheduled ICBM tests and not raising the alert status of our nuclear forces in response to Russian saber rattling."

"There is no place in our world, no place in our world for nuclear deterrence based on coercion, intimidation, or blackmail," he said.

Blinken also called out North Korea for its nuclear provocations, noting that "as we gather today, Pyongyang is preparing to conduct its seventh

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 8:44 AM

Blah blah blah...

It's the USA that has withdrawn from all nuclear treaties.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 9:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Blah blah blah...

It's the USA that has withdrawn from all nuclear treaties.

OMG! The artificial gravity field has flipped polarity where Signym lives. What was once up is now down and down is up. So strange. Signym may not be a Russian asset but an awful lot how Signym behaves is exactly like how Russian assets would. So weird.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 10:20 AM

*yawn*

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

SECOND

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 10:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
*yawn*

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

World ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’, UN chief says. Citing Ukraine, António Guterres says: ‘We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/world-one-miscalculation
-away-from-nuclear-annihilation-un-chief-says

There is a simple strategy where humanity has an adequate chance of all surviving, but what most people prefer as a solution -- the intuitively obvious strategy of random decision making -- guarantees we all die. Here is a little video where we are all in prison together and the right mathematical strategy means we all escape our lethal fate:

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

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 1:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Blah blah blah...

It's the USA that has withdrawn from all nuclear treaties.
OMG! The artificial gravity field has flipped polarity where Signym lives. What was once up is now down and down is up. So strange. Signym may not be a Russian asset but an awful lot how Signym behaves is exactly like how Russian assets would. So weird.

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

And yet, what I post is true.

Isn't it SECUND?

Cue RUSSIARUSSIA! in 3...2...1...

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

SECOND

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 6:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Blah blah blah...

It's the USA that has withdrawn from all nuclear treaties.
OMG! The artificial gravity field has flipped polarity where Signym lives. What was once up is now down and down is up. So strange. Signym may not be a Russian asset but an awful lot how Signym behaves is exactly like how Russian assets would. So weird.

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

Isn't it SECUND?

Cue RUSSIARUSSIA! in 3...2...1...

Cue two:

1) "Russia has failed to comply with its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and as such, the United States has withdrawn from the INF Treaty effective today, Aug. 2, 2019," Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said in a statement today. "This withdrawal is a direct result of Russia's sustained and repeated violations of the treaty over many years and multiple presidential administrations."
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1924779/us-w
ithdraws-from-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty/

2) Russia sortied ballistic missile submarines and land-based mobile missile launchers on March 1 in what was called a drill.

Two days earlier, Vladimir Putin put Russian nuclear forces on "special combat readiness," in other words, high alert.

Minutes before the Ukraine invasion, the Russian president warned of "consequences that you have never experienced in your history."

"Yes, Putin might do the unthinkable," said James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence . . .

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-threatens-nuke-world-opinion-1685241

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 8:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
*yawn*

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
World ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’, UN chief says.

No. It's not.

*yawn*

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

SECOND

Sunday, September 4, 2022 9:38 PM

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a stark nuclear warning to the West on Saturday as relations remain tense amid the ongoing Ukraine war.

Medvedev accused the West of wanting to take "advantage of the military conflict in Ukraine" to "eliminate Russia from the political field."

"Those are the dirty dreams of the Anglo-Saxon perverts, who go to sleep with a secret thought about the breakup of our state, thinking about how to shred us into pieces, cut us into small bits." Medvedev wrote in the translated post. "Such attempts are very dangerous and mustn't be underestimated. Those dreamers ignore a simple axiom: a forceful disintegration of a nuclear power is always a chess game with death, in which it's known precisely when the check and mate comes: doomsday for mankind."

Other Russian politicians have also left the door open on Russia's use of nuclear weapons amid the war, though Putin has typically used more measured rhetoric himself. In March, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russia would use nuclear weapons if leaders felt like their country was facing an "existential threat."

Russian-state television, which typically pushes Putin's propaganda, however, has made more forceful threats of nuclear warfare. In April, television personality Vladimir Solovyov warned of a nuclear war that only "mutants" would survive if member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) continued providing Ukraine weapons.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-official-issues-stark-nuclear-warning
-us-chess-game-death-1739674

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

SECOND

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:54 PM

The nuclear threat might change the mood in Russia itself, stoking widespread fear
by Peter Pomerantsev

Putin’s propaganda glories in devastation but he is sowing the seeds of self-destruction

Russian state propaganda drips with the pathos of martyrdom. Russians are meant to love the pain of proving how tough they are, surviving everything from the Gulag to the extreme weather, as compared with the effete west. The propaganda taps incessantly into the myth of the Second World War, in which Russians are described as unique among nations in their readiness to sacrifice themselves for a greater cause. On the anniversary of that war, the state organises marches where people carry placards of dead veterans, “the immortal regiment”: death in war brings immortality in the heaven of state propaganda. There’s a suicidal bravura, a “let’s destroy the whole world” implication in the popular catchphrase “What’s the point of the world if there’s no place for Russia in it?”. Putin’s nuclear threats are snarled with relish, as if sadistically summoning the Gods of Total Destruction.

The Russian myth of martyrdom and resilience is suspect. Ukrainians have a genuine tradition of suffering for the cause of national liberation – and success through sacrifice. For centuries, Ukrainian poets and rebels proved themselves ready to bear unjust imprisonment, executions and genocide to fight for their national and linguistic rights. Many of Ukraine’s heroes, such as the poets Taras Shevchenko and Vasyl Stus, suffered Russian prisons and tortures, and their underlying spirit of resilience is being proved on the battlefield.

Russians have indeed been killed en masse, most often by their own state, but, unlike Ukrainians, they do not celebrate their own dissidents. These are hated and damned in state propaganda and by the public at large. Real courage is derided. Instead, mass oppression has resulted in a society that celebrates passive conformism. Bravura is celebrated on the screen, but as a way to compensate for the way society is actually cowed. You are crushed by the state and then compensated with patriotic heroics on television and sadism towards the weakest in your own society and others (in this case, Ukraine).

Putin’s propaganda is geared to demobilisation: sit on the couch, feel strong by watching propaganda and let the Kremlin run things. Beneath the rhetoric of self-sacrifice, Putin’s propaganda has traditionally allowed for self-interest or, at least, self-preservation. You go to war spouting patriotic rhetoric, but really you are in it because it allows for loot. You enjoy the highs of patriotic rhetoric at home, but really your interest is in being allowed to pursue corruption, great and small. Putin’s trick is to dress self-interest in patriotic propaganda. Now those two things are splitting. Going to the front just means pointless death. It’s now clear the “partial” mobilisation is not partial at all; people are being grabbed on the streets and packed off to war. On social media, the sentiment towards mobilisation is highly negative. In polling, even the most pro-Putin Russians are against it. The war in Ukraine was meant to be a movie, not a personal sacrifice.

Putin’s threat of nuclear war may backfire, too. It’s meant to intimidate the west and Ukraine but it can upset his own people more. If there’s one thing Russians fear more than Putin, it’s nuclear war – and now he’s the one bringing it closer. For both the elite and the “ordinary” Russians who I’ve spoken to recently, the calculation is about whether the risk of going against Putin is bigger than the risk of sticking with him. So far, rebelling has seemed the bigger risk; does the nuclear topic change that?

Losing public opinion in Russia is not the same as in a democracy. It doesn’t necessarily lead to protests, let alone losing non-existent elections. But being able to show you can control public opinion, through fear and propaganda, is one of the emblems of tsardom. Putin has lost control of the military situation. Losing control of propaga

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 6:45 PM

Nobody cares about your fear porn.

Why don't you just go outside without your mask today if you want to terrorize yourself.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

SECOND

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 7:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares about your fear porn.

Why don't you just go outside without your mask today if you want to terrorize yourself.

Every day you give a short memory dump proving the inadequacy of your operating system. There are NAN errors, overflows, unhandled interrupts. You are the epitome of the results from bad-to-grotesquely-incompetent system programmers (be it family, acquaintances, or friends) using sloppy algorithms and rules-of-thumb to train or guide human shaped robots such as yourself. Is your simulacrum fooling other people that you are a real person, not a gadget that smokes tobacco, poops and falls into and out of addictive behaviors such as hoarding and viewing screens (computer, TV, movie)? Trump will be fine, declares the robot 6ix. I could get the robot 6ix to archive this comment, since it has a small repertoire of programmed responses. Trumptards are uncomplicated devices and Trump knows well how to push the Trumptards' buttons.

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

SIGNYM

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 7:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Quote:
President Zelensky Suggests Ukraine May Pursue Nuclear Weapons To Counter Russia, Putin Responds

https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-zelensky-suggests-ukraine-may
-pursue-nuclear-weapons-to-counter-russia-putin-responds

Quote:
Cheers as Liz Truss says she's ready to press nuclear button and unleash 'global annihilation'

https://news.yahoo.com/audience-liz-truss-ready-press-nuclear-button-u
nleash-global-annihilation-103552126.html

Quote:
In its aggressive anti-Russian policy, the West has crossed every line. We constantly hear threats against our country, our people. Some irresponsible politicians in the West not only talk about plans to organize the supply of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine – systems that will allow strikes against the Crimea and other regions of Russia.

Such terrorist strikes, including with the use of Western weapons, are already being carried out on the border settlements of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. In real time, using modern systems, aircraft, ships, satellites, strategic drones, NATO carries out reconnaissance throughout southern Russia.

In Washington, London, Brussels, they are directly pushing Kyiv to transfer military operations to our territory. No longer hiding, they say that Russia should be defeated by all means on the battlefield, followed by the deprivation of political, economic, cultural, in general, any sovereignty, with the complete plunder of our country.

Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.

For those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries.

And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/text-of-putin-speech-announcin
g-partial-mobilization.html

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

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