No, the end game would be Putin backing down and wanting to talk.
That is the first concern I had seeing that.
Weapons and artillary distributed with no control or accountability whatsoever.
What could go wrong?
Then I rememberered it's a video that poster found on social media, so it has as much credibility as a drunk rambling at a bar counter
If you think the Brits hate Nazis, then you've never seen the Russians talk about it.
Russia suffered the heaviest human losses of any single country in World War 2. Hitler is as close to the antichrist as anyone can be in Russia.
This is what makes it so easy for Putin to refer to anyone as Nazis to try and stir up hatred against them.
Protest at Russian Embassy in Dublin
this famous Churchillian quote should be tailored to Ukraine-
From Chernobyl in the North to Odessa in the South, an iron curtain has descended across the Ukraine
There are a couple of USAF refuelling tankers flying in circles south of ukraine, they must be busy with all the spy planes around the place
Russia getting kicked off the Council of Europe again. They were booted out in 2014 as well.
Europe engages in Mercantilism. China(for the moment) engages in Mercantilism. They don't build their power through military force.
We need to keep China on this path because at the moment Russia is setting a very, very bad example to them.
The US isn't the only NATO member with nuclear weapons. Staying out of it to avoid the use of nuclear weapons seems kind of moot. UK and France may not have a lot of them, but you don't need a lot of nuclear weapons.
Ridiculous dictator he may be, but even Putin knows that establishing a new Russian empire is worthless if big chunks of its western flank have been nuked. Use of nuclear weapons is so way outside the pale here that it can reasonably be ignored.
Meanwhile, Putin's bank manager in the Caymen Islands:
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Would also drive down house prices in Rathgar, which would ease pressure on the housing market. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good and plenty of it I hope.
No one knows.
Look at how the two world wars of last century started.
The invasion of the Ukraine doesn't prove that Putin would gamble on invading a NATO country. It also doesn't prove that he wouldn't.
There have been multiple multi-volume academic treatises written about Russian & soviet history. I can barely scratch the surface, but what it boils down to is that the Russian empire was a conglomerate out of duchies, principalities, provinces, feudal allegiances and similar structures. These were held together basically by brute force and a Russian-born nobility that in most cases repressed any local non-Russian identities with eye-watering violence.
When the 1917 revolutions kicked off, many of these territories decided to go their own way, including Ukraine, the Baltic States, numerous territories in the Caucasus and Central Asia and Poland. This was not structured in any way and mixed in with the Russian Civil war, a bloody affair that makes the 1990s Balkan wars seem like a gentlemanly duel. As the Bolsheviks began to consolidate their forces and started moving agains the "monarchist" White Russian Forces that were often supported by western military forces, these newly independent states were brought "back into the fold", with brute force and eye-watering violence, before being reformed as soviet republics within the USSR. One of the consequences of this was years of brutal repression & famine in Ukraine during the 1920 and nowadays, this "Holodomor" is widely considered a genocide against Ukrainians.
Only a few countries managed to keep their independence in the interwar years, including Finland, the Baltic States and Poland and many of those had to fight for their independence, with the Polish Soviet War of the early 1920s in particular being almost on the scale of the battles on the Eastern Front during the Great War. The next great redrawing of the borders came during World War 2. The Molotov Ribbentrop pact saw Poland and the Baltic States carved up between the USSR and Nazi Germany, while Ukraine suffered terribly during the war, being one of the main battlegrounds during the German attack on the USSR. Some of the largest battles on the Eastern Front took place on Ukrainian soil. A lot of Ukrainians also saw the war as a good opportunity to rise up against the soviets, which resulted in mass deportations after the war. Entire ethnicities were uprooted and sent to Siberia.
After the war, and the death of Stalin, things got easier. Local languages were tolerated to a certain degree, as were local history and customs, in a radical departure from several hundred years of precedent, though that ended when Brezhnev took power. It was also during this time when Krushchev ordered the reallocation of Crimea to Ukraine. It had been considered part of another Soviet republic previously if I remember correctly. When the USSR finally crumbled in 91, many of these independent-then-annexed soviet republics decided to go independent once and for all, which leads us to the current situation.
Now, this overview is extremely brief and high level, I highly recommend both reading and catching up on this. The YouTube channels THe Great War, TimeGhost History and The Cold War have multiple 20-45 minute videos on this whole range of topics, while Drachinifel, an EXCELLENT naval history channel, has a very in-depth video on the Naval campaigns in the Baltic during the Russian Civil war. Even they aren't able to go into too much detail as the whole topic is extremely layered and complex!
it's been happening all morning, most reporting Russian troop movements were getting reported, so posts were behind the mature filter initially, looks like they've ramped up with whatever complaints results in an automatic take down for review by twitter.
If it came to that, then the US would honour their NATO obligations with conventional warfare same as Russians, and no nukes would be fired until someone blinks.
Firing even one nuclear weapon against a nuclear power means you both lose massively, at least in conventional warfare theres the possibility of a stalemate of sorts. If somehow NATO - Russia ended up at war (incredibly unlikely), it would probably be limited in scope because the moment someone uses nuclear weapons it is game over for both. To be honest its not even worth discussing because its not going to happen here.
Wonder how much damage this group can do and how russia will respond:
The hacker group Anonymous has said it is “officially in cyber war against the Russian government” reports the Guardian’s global technology editor Dan Milmo.
The statement in a tweet thread came as several Russian government websites such as the Kremlin and the Duma, as well as the state-backed RT news site (formerly Russia Today), were hit by so-called distributed denial of service attacks.
In a DDoS, a website is deluged with spurious requests for information – akin to stuffing a thousand envelopes through a letterbox every second – that render the site unreachable.
According to Craig Terron, a senior analyst at Recorded Future, which monitors cyber-threats, the RT site remained “intermittently available” today, having gone down at 5pm (2pm GMT) Moscow time on Thursday.
The website is intermittently available, with continued reports of users unable to access the website, as of 1330 Moscow time on 25 February.
RT said it had been “able to repel” the hit on its servers.
It's an interesting one , my internet is intermittent so I only managed to get on to see the two helicopters moving off from the border before my internet crashed again
Desperate times call for desperate measures. More than a few of these weapons will eventually wind up here I suspect
As was suggested a slurry tank and its pipe respects no borders and I'm quite enamoured with the idea of releasing slurry on to the grounds of the Embassy over the wall. If I were to do it I'd use the ripest geese or duck slurry available for maximum efficacy.
Such irony in posters suggesting Biden & the US should involve themselves in a war with Russia.
Rather than trying to stop the current invasion with economic sanctions, as most nations are doing, many want "boots on the ground", of course resulting in more bloodshed.
I'm also not sure could Ukraine be considered a "peaceful nation". It's had a very fractious few decades as a country, even as recent as the 2010's.
Why?
There is no indication that a conventional war fought over Ukraine territory wouldn't happen. The only real risk is if the war escalated to involve the invasion of Russian territory by NATO forces, and even then, it's unlikely that nukes would be used.
It's far more likely that there would be a conventional conflict, followed up by negotiations and a settlement without anything really changing. A white peace.
Bombing Russian cities is not a good idea at this point as it will turn any sentiment of support for Ukraine completely 180 degrees to the point where Russians will say, let them burn. That is for another time. Every citizen should arm themselves as much as possible and try to kill as many Russians as possible. Small hit and run militias are the order of the day. Women (who don't want to fight) and children should be evacuated to as far from the frontline as possible. Hundreds or thousands of dead russians will rock this back on it heals quickly. The US, EU and Britain should be flooding the country with arms.
I fear that if he blitzes through Ukraine quickly that he will immediately turn his attention to the Baltics and then we enter a completely different ball game.
Jesus wept
The locals don't seem so interested in the comradeship on offer
Most OSINT sites are now down. Live UA Map is down and so is OSINT Ukraine twitter feeds. Either a Cyber attack or Twitter is getting bullied.
A European military is no direct threat to the US... Just as European forces alone aren't much of a threat to Russia. Europe lacks force projection for the kind of hardware needed to combat a Russian incursion. It would be different if Europe had weeks to prepare, but even then, European militaries are fragmented. Europe needs US forces to be the glue that keeps them together. The concern would the decline in influence the US has over European nations if Europe went alone, as it would likely mean closer ties with Russia/China, rather than the US, resulting in issues over trade.
There's no evidence that China is sanctioning Russia over Ukraine.
Fair play to him atleast his not a coward and lead his country to the very end, more bottle than the likes of Biden and Borris anyway.
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