Probably too risky, would be a big PR coup if they were caught. Much bigger impact providing accurate data to the Ukrainians.
Interesting information there, thanks. I agree that the US is acting incredibly insular since this crisis unfolded, with one eye on the upcoming mid term elections. However I do think the Ukraine has had a lot of investment of US dollars, and the current President of Ukraine is very Washington friendly, appearing on numerous news networks across America regularly over the last number of years. As they’re more removed from the situation geographically, they may not feel the urgency of their European counterparts to respond more decisively to this conflict.
China is going to play both sides with a view to keeping its alliance with Russia strong against the West, but also recognising it needs the West to keep its economy strong for the moment.
How the Russian economy deals with sanctions, how its people react to what’s going on and not least of all how Putin’s inner circle react to this will determine the Russian response going forward and ultimately the threat to European security following this catastrophe.
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Highly likely ,pre invasion there was US "Operators" on the ground , i know they said they withdrew forces from Ukraine .
But.
The presenter was zero craic.
Russia have showed their hand and it was piss poor. Well done, they will take months to roll over Ukraine but the deficiencies are glaring. Without nukes they are nothing. And I would have big doubts over how effective their nuclear arsenal is. I would have big doubts over their airforce. Their navy is probably papering over cracks too.
Another thing glaring is that if the Anonymous posts about the 16th of February being the original inavsion date are true, that is bang on the date of the Wednesday the America's originally prediction. And we're mocked (including by myself). So their military is also leaky as fool.
Although saying that, I believe anonymous are a US internal operation.
I would be surprised if there wasn't CIA Special Activities Division members in-country advising the Ukrainian military. It's public domain that they were training Ukrainian armed forces in insurgency and urban warfare if the war moved to a 'resistance' phase and had brought elite units to the US for training. These Ukrainian insurgency units were quarantined from the rest of the Ukrainian military due to the danger of Russian infiltration. They (the CIA Special Activities Division) are very unlikely to be engaged in any sort of combat for the above reasons, but there's a high-chance they are present in an advisory capacity.
Definitely advisers. This isn't really a special forces situation unless there was a high value target to attack.
Russia has a lot of natural resources. Demand is very high. He destroys Ukraine, takes a bit more territory and leaves what’s left of Ukraine. Then the corporations come back, the corporations want Russias natural resources, there is too much money to be made.
I hope I’m wrong but those natural resources are his Get of jail card.
Fair enough, point taken.
Wait till she finds out no more iPhones or IKEA.
Big tech should disable all Russian user accounts. Microsoft, Oracle,Salesforce etc
Misinformation is best fought with real information, not censorship. There are millions of North Koreans bloodthirsty for Americans because information can’t get in.
You aren't reading the room. Read the next sentence carefully.
Russia has at least three times this week threatened nuclear war on the world.
Now, you may not be a business person, but commerce doesn't work well when your target market is largely vaporised and the rest dying horrible deaths during a nuclear winter. Russia is now North Korea with vodka.
Oracle and SAP have both already ceased operations which means there wont be any support, updates or renewals possible for their software within Russia or Belarus, it wont be immediate but over time a lot things will stop working because of this.
Nuclear war isn't going to happen. Threatening it and actually doing it are two seperate meanings. Putin is calling bluff.
No boots on the ground but would put money on they have spies in the sky providing very good intelligence to Ukraine forces.
Not true
You're most likely right; it's a bluff.
But it shows how much of a disgusting scumbag he is to even use it as a bluff.
Apparently Nato have confirmed they are sharing real time intelligence on the ground as has the US .
I wonder if this may be an attempt to bait the Russians to target a Nato or US aerial surveillance aircraft /drone
Unfortunately in the current situation nobody actually knows,
But I'm seeing Putin is filmed in what looks like a bunker not the Kremlin or duma .
He's prepared for something big
Yep and It's that disgusting bluff alone that has stopped the west from wiping him out.
All things considered, I wouldn't be as certain as you are. Everything here says irrational madman.
This was as obvious as the nose on your face from the start tbh. Won't change anything.
In what way?
No. But the sentiment is there. Would you deal with someone that says 'I will kill you and your family' even if you think it unlikely to happen. In the mean time the same person has killed someone else.
Russian Army soldiers are giving out humanitarian aid to the citizens of Melitopol', Zaporizhia Oblast:
Here is this place in Google Maps: https://shorturl.at/uwFJM
Notice that there is still a Ukrainian flag on the pole.
Not trying to excuse any civilian losses caused by the Russian Army. Just telling the fact that Western news media might not tell.
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