Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Putin already said 8 years ago he will never allow foreign troops to be deployed on Ukrainian soil,

The only peace keepers will the Russians carrying out Genocide

F-16 on CAP over Romania..

Indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian cities will kill tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the coming weeks - Putin laughing at the West and their sanctions!

I thought it was clear I was pointing out the hypocrisy of the Americans, I should have made it clearer for some apologies

And that's probably what would have happened, as it would have contravened numerous conducts and conventions of war and been deemed illegal almost immediately. If Bush, indeed, had ordered a nuclear strike, it wouldn't have got beyond his authorisation and would have drowned in the debate that followed.

The legal requirements of a first strike option I would say are quite varied and encompassing and are so designed to avoid an unnecessary situation from arising. However, they aren't so restrictive that they hobble the option for a retaliatory strike should that particular need arise. Because in that case, whether it was legal or not probably wouldn't matter.

Just on the whole EU membership thing, between Moldova and Ukraine, I would be more in support of EU members troops going to Ukraine than I would Ukraine hastily joining the EU. Im sorry but it would be so short sighted, the EU isnt some symbolic gesture and its not a military alliance either. These countries want to be part of the West, and lets be honest, its for good reason, but joining the EU is not the same thing as being part of the West.

I think the ideal scenario for them is that Putin is forced to pull his army out as a result of sanctions or from pressure from within Russia. I don't know how likely or unlikely that outcome is, but I believe as long as it remains a possibility then I don't see there being any direct intervention. I would hope there is a threshold for direct intervention long before Ukraine is flattened. Putin may be ordering his army to be more aggressive and ruthless in their tactics with the hope of demoralising the Ukrainian leadership and people so that they become more desparate. He will then be in a greater position of getting more concessions out of any possible ceasefire talks. I think that is his only win outcome.

Meanwhile as Russia becomes battle hardened in preparation for WW3 and its next victim the west struggles to update their pronouns on social media

Yeah this is what they did to the Dead Russians during the continuation war.

In a Telegram group chat organised in answer to Ukraine’s government call for hackers to protect the country’s infrastructure from cyberattacks and to conduct its own cyber missions, a hacking team called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans said they planned to target the Belarusian railway networks.

The “IT army” group chat also discussed targeting Russian telecom companies as well as GLONASS – Russia’s satellite-based navigation system and alternative to GPS.

The Russians are killing ten times more Ukranians than the other way around im afraid!

they’re a gas bunch!

Mick Barry talking about building an international Anti War coalition and sending solidarity.

Which is a nice way of saying we'll give them a great send off, dig the hole and leave the shovels.

The US needs to publicly warn about Russian false flags, because all that must very much be in the pipeline now (we had a few minor incidents manufactured in LNR and DNR in the run up to this)

There's some sort of provisional membership they can have before full acceptance, which would give them protection.