Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago on February 24, Medvedev has repeatedly raised the threat of nuclear chaos and used insults to describe the West.
Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads while the United States has 5,428, China 350, France 290 and the United Kingdom 225, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
As president, Putin is Russia’s ultimate decision-maker on the use of nuclear weapons.
Washington has not detailed what it would do if Putin ordered what would be the first use of nuclear weapons in war since the United States unleashed the first atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
While NATO has conventional military superiority over Russia, when it comes to nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear superiority over the alliance in Europe.
Putin casts Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine as an existential battle with an aggressive and arrogant West and has said that Moscow will use all available means to protect itself.
Since a grim New Year’s Eve message describing the West as Russia’s true enemy in the war on Ukraine, Putin has sent several signals that Moscow will not back down.
Putin said on Wednesday that Russia’s powerful military-industrial complex was ramping up production, and was one of the main reasons why his country would prevail in Ukraine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/19/medvedev-warns-of-nuclear-war
-if-russia-defeated-in-ukraine
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Lavrov says Russia will "sober up" NATO and EU
Jan 19 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow would do all it could to "sober up" the European Union and NATO, which he accused of setting out to weaken and defeat Russia.
His comments came on the same day that former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.
Nearly 11 months after invading Ukraine, Russia is increasingly presenting the war to its own people as an existential battle with the West. In televised comments, Lavrov said Moscow would set out to disabuse Western politicians of their "presumptuous" and "colonial" attitudes to Russia.
"I hope that the sobering up will come," Lavrov said. "We will do everything so that our colleagues from NATO and the European Union sober up as soon as possible."
"We have a common position on what goals need to be achieved and how to ensure that neither Russia nor Belarus is threatened by our neighbours - be it Ukraine or anyone else," Lavrov said in a statement after meeting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230119203215/https://www.reuters.com/wor
ld/europe/lavrov-says-russia-will-sober-up-nato-eu-2023-01-19/
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Originally posted by second:
Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago on February 24, Medvedev has repeatedly raised the threat of nuclear chaos and used insults to describe the West.
Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads while the United States has 5,428, China 350, France 290 and the United Kingdom 225, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
As president, Putin is Russia’s ultimate decision-maker on the use of nuclear weapons.
Washington has not detailed what it would do if Putin ordered what would be the first use of nuclear weapons in war since the United States unleashed the first atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
While NATO has conventional military superiority over Russia
HAHAHAHA!!!
*gasp!*
hahahahaha!
Your nuclear bogeyman depends on a counterfactual assumption.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Quote:I assume you are certain Russia will win in Ukraine. If Putin was as certain as you are, Russian spokesmen would not keep mentioning using nukes to prevent losing.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
HAHAHAHA!!!
*gasp!*
hahahahaha!
Your nuclear bogeyman depends on a counterfactual assumption.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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I see that Second has had another unproductive day masturbating his fear boner to the fear porn.
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Quote:All the Trumptards I know are fearful. They are scared of losing their jobs or blacks shooting them or inflation or paying taxes or illegal aliens on border or being caught cheating by their wives or the government taking away their guns or whatever. And so Trumptards think other people are fearful like they are. 6ix, get control of your cowardly soul.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I see that Second has had another unproductive day masturbating his fear boner to the fear porn.
For people who aren't chickens, there is Can Russia’s War in Ukraine End Without Nuclear Weapons?
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/11/03/can-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-e
nd-without-nuclear-weapons-pub-88321
“For Putin, this war is a game of a chicken.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is failing. And as they continue to be pushed out of Ukrainian territory, there are enormous incentives for escalation. . . . It looks to me like Russian strategy is that they have acknowledged they can’t defeat Ukraine’s army, so they are looking to split off Western support and corrode the Ukrainian population’s willingness to continue to resist Russian occupation.
My expectation of what’s going to happen is that by next summer, Russia will have been pushed out of the entirety of the territory of Ukraine, including Crimea. It is so shocking how fundamentally bad the Russian military is at warfare. That’s going to give enormous incentives to escalation. So there will be a premium in the coming three months to signal very clearly and very concretely to the Russian government the consequences of crossing the nuclear threshold.
I don’t see meaningful military targets for nuclear use in Ukraine. There isn’t a port or an airfield or massing of large numbers of troops that would be a traditional battlefield nuclear target. President Vladimir Putin may be able to cover this humiliating defeat by launching a nuclear strike on Kyiv to affect regime change by killing the Ukrainian government.
. . . there may not be a meaningful military target, but I think the purpose would be to make Ukraine back off and at least divide the West—an attempt at psychological terror. If we’re going to have a strategy of least regret, it can’t be one that bets the farm on this being a bluff. This is very real.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I assume you are certain Russia will win in Ukraine. If Putin was as certain as you are, Russian spokesmen would not keep mentioning using nukes to prevent losing.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
HAHAHAHA!!!
*gasp!*
hahahahaha!
Your nuclear bogeyman depends on a counterfactual assumption.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Yeah, right.
Usually you have a three- word snippet to justify your misinterpretation. Now you don't even have that. Just blah blah blah...
Stop crapping up the board with bullshit.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:All the Trumptards I know are fearful.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I see that Second has had another unproductive day masturbating his fear boner to the fear porn.
I'm not the one who sat here all day long crapping up this thread with nuclear fear porn while pretending to own a company.
Get fucked, idiot.
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U.S. warms to helping Ukraine target Crimea
The Biden administration is considering what would be one of its boldest moves yet, helping Ukraine to attack the peninsula that President Vladimir V. Putin views as an integral part of his quest to restore past Russian glory.
Ukrainian officials fear their country cannot survive years of a stalemated conflict while Russia continues to pound cities and towns. So they see little choice but to target Crimea and put it in jeopardy, a senior U.S. official said, noting that the issue has come up at recent high-level meetings at the White House.
“We have in essence put limits on Ukraine, saying this war is going to be fought on your soil and not on Russian soil,” said Philip Breedlove, a retired four-star Air Force general who was NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. “To give Russia sanctuary from which to fight, without fear of reproach, is absolutely absurd. It makes no military sense.”
For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv with the weapons it needs to target the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has been using as a base for launching devastating strikes.
Now that line is starting to soften.
The Biden administration has come to believe that if the Ukrainian military can show Russia that its control of Crimea can be threatened, that would strengthen Kyiv’s position in any future negotiations. In addition, fears that the Kremlin would retaliate using a tactical nuclear weapon have dimmed, U.S. officials and experts said — though they cautioned that the risk remained.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/politics/ukraine-crimea-military
.html
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Colonel Zhdanov says there is only one man in the world who knows when the war in Ukraine will end: President Joe Biden. He believes that the war will go on until the White House signs off on all of the additional military firepower Ukraine is requesting.
“President Biden has a detailed scenario of this war in the White House. The sooner we get weapons the sooner we finish the war, but it looks like the U.S. wants Russia to exhaust itself with all of its war efforts,” Zhdanov told The Daily Beast. “In Russia they now have a cult of death: on all levels, from propagandists to the Orthodox Patriarch, Russians are called to go and die in this war, as their grandfathers died in previous wars.”
According to the most recent polls by the Levada center, the number of Russians who believe the country “should definitely continue military actions in Ukraine” has dropped to 23 percent. And so, Putin is updating his rhetoric. He no longer talks about the “unity” of Ukrainian and Russian peoples. The Kremlin has given up on calling for Russians to die for the ancient Kievan Rus heritage. Instead, they are casting this war as a mighty battle against NATO.
On Saturday, his top adviser Nikolai Patrushev said: “The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kyiv; this is a military confrontation between NATO, and above all the United States and England, with Russia.”
Putin and Patrushev are both graduates of Soviet KGB schools. They have always seen the United States and its allies as enemies worth destroying at all costs.
Ukraine knows full well it is facing the wrath of that decade-old conflict with NATO.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-secret-attack-plan-would-be-ukrai
nian-nightmare
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