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Would they launch nukes - like really - somebody has to push the button, somebody has to input the codes (if my tv memory is correct) Putin might say yes, but someone else has to do it.
For a war he doesnt have much support with at home, and a possible reasonable human being with the steel suitcase handcuffed to him, would they really? I would hope as soon as the words come out of his mouth someone shoots him in the face!
Hope for seriously minus temperatures.....in these temps, diesel gels in the tanks, and the engine will stop. (unless it has been treated with a special additive and this treatment normally takes place during the refining process, and it's classed as a special grade of winter diesel.) There additives that can be added of course, but if it has already been affected by "waxing", it's a tough job to get it going again.
Fair question? Nigel Farage is an even bigger pr**k than I could possible have imagined.
This whole episode really smokes out the totally useless characters: Farage, Wallace, and loads of others. Suggestions on a postcard please.
CNN, imo. They have loads of reporters in Ukraine and have lots of military experts on live coverage. I flick back to Sky News during CNN's (too many) and breaks.
I've asked many stupid questions already but I have more, so thanks to anyone answering.
If putting Nato troops in Ukraine would lead to all out war in Europe, then why doesn't Russia view sending weapons to Ukraine as the same thing? Like Germany are sending anti tank weapons that are aimed to kill Russians. Why wouldn't Putin view that the same as having troops on the ground?
Yes indeed, this is hugely significant. This could cripple the Russian economy very quickly and stop all imports and exports. To say that this is putting pressure on Putin would be an understatement.
You would feel sorry for some of the Russian soldiers
The followup to this should be that any western countries bordering Russia should be allowed to deploy an Iron Dome system.
Ukraine was prevented from doing this and is now suffering as a result.
And probably a whole host of other things emboldened Puta because nobody did anything effective.
Yet, all of those things are so old school and it also showed the Russian intelligence services for their ineptitude.
Now we see the ineptitude of the entire Russian militray establishment.
It smacks to me of an old-school mindset that one cannot get rid of and hasn't matured and evolved with time.
Correct, it was also pointed out that there is no need to move a missle with a range of 11,000 kilometers a few kilometers up the road.
It shouldn't be "sanctions". It should be a total blockade of anything russian. Like what the North Koreans face.
It seems like all of this is political posturing. They are still happy to do business with Russia. Still happy to let their companies sell brands and have stores/products being sold in Russia. Still happy to buy their gas and oil.
A total blockade and then put sanctions on anyone that deals with them too.
Ah come on, I can preload maps on my phone for when I am in Connemara with poor mobile coverage. They are hardly going to get lost because someone is moving road signs or scrambling their satnav.
Did CNN just show a completely wrong video of someone getting shot in an army truck??
The Russians are not the French trying to reach Moscow under Napolean, nor the Germans in the 40's. They'd be full aware of how to manage cold weather and vehicles etc.
While I agree with the come on Ukraine , I can't rejoice in some dumb kid in uniform ending up dead - and there's going to be way more of it ..
Hold on Ukraine ..
Nato needs to send drones, tanks and air support overtly or covertly before the eastern based Ukrainian forces aren encircled. It'll be genocide
Just aswell that Merkel is gone, I doubt she would have approved this, she was way too cozy with Putin anyway. I know Olaf Sholz also tried to talk Putin down but he has been very decisive since. The fact that the pressure is really being ramped up now on Russia internationally and decades old rules are being thrown out in order to back up Ukraine means that the gloves are now finally coming off. I know Putin threatened nuclear weapons if anyone came in to help but maybe that will be wrenched from him by his generals. Anyway risks have to be taken because if Russia see's no quick victory and Ukranians with real weapons Putin won't be in control anyway because they won't launch nuclear weapons in order to merely back up Putin, de escalation and blame the whole thing on Putin will be the path of least resistance
A lot of these Russian soldiers don't want to be there themselves, important to remember that. How many of them privately think Putin's nuts and are wondering what the hell they are doing there?
And that could be another part of the reason for the slowness of Russia's advance - maybe some of the boots on the ground don't really have the heart for this.
This little one was born in the Kiev subway while the city was under heavy bombardment
Norway, Uk, Australia, US...
That's just another war of saying NATO should go to war with Russia.
The Allies blockaded Germany during First World War. If you blockade food and medical supplies that's the same kind of action as launching missiles at a country.
The world doesn't need a running commentary from Biden.
I'd rather he was strategizing with his generals and coordinating with his allies, rather than talking to the press.
Why isn’t the west sending in troops?
It seems that incomprehensible that it could happen. Don't forget the only people they are actually fighting is the Ukrainians themselves, people who ordinary Russians consider as their friends and brothers. Who could they even launch a nuclear weapon at?
He can't back off - it's win or he's finished ...and I'm hoping he's gonna loose - but desperate men do desperate stupid things
Because nuclear war.
When we read breaking news of a country sending weapons to Ukraine, realistically how long would it take for them to be received where they are needed?
Are you for real! He's just given 300mill dollars in weapons to Ukraine plus insisted on the EU kicking Russian banks out of swift!
Perhaps because the process of arming Ukraine with NATO weapons has been happening since 2014. Given that fact it is simply an ongoing process and the only dynamic that has changed is that he sent Russian troops into Ukraine. He cannot justify it as aggression by NATO if the weapons that were already there and the continuance of supply brings his army into conflict with those weapons as a result of his own actions.
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