There is a direct threat to the Baltic states and Poland.
Putin must have had his fingers crossed behind his back when he said that.
That would lead to nuclear war. For sure. Guaranteed.
What happens now? Are further economic sanctions a credible response to offensive military actions from Russia?
Was caught in traffic during the 11AM news bulletin, and hearing the invasion klaxon go off in Kiev was genuinely haunting. Scary times.
Looks like I am going to be glued to this for however long it lasts. Which, hopefully won't be for long.
That's how you win in a video game.
NATO activating and increasing defence plans
Edit: having trouble adding links when mobile. Copy and paste not working.
He is a man in this near 60s who shacked up with a rhythmic gymnast who is half his age and lives in a gothic castle in a forest. He goes around with his shirt off half the time and has pictures of him manhandling tigers he acts like people will believe its real.
Obsessed with gay people. Has pics one day of him snuggling puppies the nest hunting bison again with the shirt off.
Yeah totally emotionally stable ...not insecure at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISy0Hl0SBfg
same with trump didnt stop them supporting him
Is there anyway for the west to try and reach out to the Russian people on some level ? (Any level). Try and actually properly address the dictator element in the room and challange Putin head on with a “if you join the west we will help you prosper” and be properly independent kind of message.
I know it’s a very bold and risky play but sanctions on Germany after WW1 played a massive role in galvanising the Germans against the rest for WW2, who’s to say that doubling down on Russia is not going to actually strengthen Putins stance (which could be his goal all along).
The issue with sanctions on one level is that it makes the average Russians life worse and can be spun into “look at how the west is treating us for trying to free our brothers and sisters in Ukraine”?!
Obviously don't agree with other poster, but Russia's been expanding the embassy afair. As I think I said before, Ireland is not quite the unimportant backwater beneath all notice it once was. Hopefully there will be a good collective Western approach to Russia now though + their (at this point odious) presence here will be shrunk to a tiny skeleton staff who can rattle their bones around in the massive embassy Russia wasted money on!
Keeping tabs on RT is useful, it shows us what Putin is telling his people. The next step is to claim that Kyiv won't co-operate with Russia's desire to end the conflict so in order to safeguard the future of Russians in Ukraine, the Kyiv government must be overthrown and replaced.
The rest of the world is standing by and hoping for Russia to stop, meanwhile Kyiv knows exactly what's going down and is arming everyone they possibly can.
The west sends Stallone in, he defeated the Russians before, he will defeat them again.
Exactly this .
But nothing will be done ,
I saw on 1 newsite earlier that the Lithuanians have invoked Article 4. Trying desperately to find which site it was now.
That greatly depends. Now, as a disclaimer, I'm not in the military, nor am I involved in military matters from a professional perspective, so feel free to double-check everything I write with external sources.
That being said, we need to look at two broad categories of targets, air defence infrastructure (hangars, runways, control towers as well as fixed command posts, basically anything that is known and cannot move) as well as radar sites and missile launchers, which are more or less mobile.
For the static infrastructure, it's often sufficient to use either cruise missiles or even conventionally-tipped ballistic missiles, as most runways I know tend to not engage in evasive action. Dito for hangars, aircraft emplacements and so on. Generally, you would try to launch multiple missiles for each of these targets to overwhelm any short-range flak batteries of infrared guided Surface to Air missiles, but you can safely do this from well inside your own airspace.
For radar sites and missile batteries, things are a lot trickier, since these can be mobile and may not even be in the same spot. You could have let's say an S-300 launcher set up a few hundred meters from its fire control radar, with the battery control post being another few hundred meters in a completely different direction, while shorter range systems could just be on the move entirely. This is usually done by dedicated aircraft armed with extensive electronic warfare suites and missiles that can lock onto enemy radar. The general idea is to get a radar site to start transmitting, lock onto it with your radar-homing weapons to get a fix on the position, then fire and crank up your electronic warfare suites to 11 to prevent the radar from getting a lock onto you and firing off a missile. Generally, long-rage surface to air missiles like the S-300 or the US Patriot missiles don't have a secondary radar in their launchers, so once you take out their fire control radar, a battery is pretty much neutralised. Smaller systems, such as the infamous Buk that brought down that Malaysian Airlines flight a few years back, do have this, so there, you'd have to take out both the radar and the launchers.
I hope I didn't drown you in too much gobbledygook here, but that's basically just scratching the surface.
Isn't that how every force of occupation that ultimately lost, lost.
Lads i was on Instagram and loads of celebs are sending prayers to Ukraine so we should be ok.
Footage of apparently Russians forces dropping into Kyiv by helicopter.
Is there anything be said for a charity single? I think a load of celebs singing Imagine would be appropriate...
Yea a weak news conference from NATO
If you were Putin you'd be laughing
Is there any chance of seeing us boots on the ground in Ukraine ???
No.
My son informs me it looks like Putin may have his sights on grabbing Moldova too. Brilliant. Sweden isn't a NATO member so he can have that too and Finland. Would Biden please have a stroke so Kamala can take over, she likely has more balls.
typo meant leaving for poland. sorry
Its on the Estonian Government Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/EstonianGovt/status/1496728085890273284
Regardless of how anyone leans politically I really hope as many sensible people as possible will remember the last week or two for the future. Remember the importance of calling out obvious lies and bullshit. Remember how Russia have behaved, pretty much in line with the absolute worst assumptions about them. Remember the pathetic Russian propaganda attempts. Remember Russia timing their attacks to follow a pre-recorded address from Putin and coincide with a UNSC meeting they were convening over. Don't allow a re-writing of how the last few weeks panned out.
It doesn't take long for memories to fade and emotional reactions to be blunted. And hell, maybe it will inspire more people to call out the BS from people they've aligned/identified with because the world could be very different soon and I hope we can take things on logically, without tribalism or blind partisanship etc.
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