I doubt very much that they are "Kidnappable" in the normal sense...except maybe by a SEAL /SAS type military operation.
****..
Netflix pulled out a few days ago.
My concern is this keeps ratcheting up and you end up with Putin deciding to use a tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine or on somewhere else.
The only hope really is the oligarchs and the general population feel the economic heat enough that they decide to do something about it and move against Putin.
The question is do they have the power to do that. Modern Russia doesn’t exactly have a wonderful history people power against the state. The last time that happened really was the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Also in this case it’s more of an imperial driven agenda, so you’ll have patriotism and offended egos.
If they can’t have impact on their leadership, and they’re either powerless or unwilling to rock the boat, there’s a huge problem.
There's plenty of internal strife within Russia. A country that large is never homogeneous. There's dozens of factions who would prefer to be independent and will sense blood in the water. He's not going to nuke his own country.
China ain’t no charity.
Ironically it actually all hinges on the West and not Putin.
Nato and the EU have to make a big decision, does it allow Ukraine “take one for the team”, ie allow them to be crushed in an unjust manner by not helping them, or does it escalate to save Ukraine but basically start WW3.
Wonder what their security detail looks like? I know they live under assumed names abroad, but do their friends not twig they are not just vanilla billionaire daughters with the presumably high-level of protection around them?
Imagine the sucker of a boyfriend that doesn't realise he's going out with one of Putin's daughters. There's difficult breakups and then there's trying to break up with the daughter of a man that poisons people for sport.
Oh no .. fcuk fcuk fcuk
Possibly not but if I was Ukrainian I'd be exploring the option and if I lost my kids in the war I'd probably hunt them down til the day I died. Some might say well they're innocent but tell that to someone who's kids were blown apart by one of Putins bombs
Not saying Russia is totally homogenous, but what significant internal strife since 2011?
Yes not everyone is happy, but Putin has had an extremely firm grip for at least a decade now. It's like when people were claiming that the Burmese Junta, or Maduro, or Assad, or Lukashenko would go to protests or strife - nope.
Live camera. Appears to be a fire going on the right.
if a nuclear reactor gets blown up and radiation becomes a major issue, this could be the trigger for the European contingent of Nato to say this in fact triggers article 5 as many of the EU countries inhabitants will die as a result or this aggression, this then will drag the US in also, and we are on the precipice of such a scenario right now
China is also gradually moving towards a bit of a stance like: “Russia? Who? Oh! That Russia… never heard of them…” having been best buds a few weeks ago.
I think China may be somewhat taken aback at how utterly self destructive and boorish this is.
The Chinese approach tends to look for stability over anything else and they have to protect their enormous business interests - it’s a highly globalised and very technologically sophisticated economy.
I would suspect there are very hard limits to how much China cares about Russia tbh. At the end of the day, China will put China first.
Well, We are all worried about being Nuked but if NATO went in we might have been able to avoid such incidents as this.
Hopefully only a minor fire.
I'm am sure Russian people are seeing their TV/Radio being shut down, online media being shut down, social media blocked, their debit cards not working, their retail outlets closing, their streaming services cut, the stock market being indefinitely closed, their online shopping being cut and thinking that the special operation in Luhansk and Donbass is going swimmingly.
Vlad is in the Fuhrerbunker.
Well they know they would be crushed previously so keep the head down. But if the military is significantly weakened by Ukraine then they'll all have a go.
Like everything in this conflict, I'll wait on verification, but it's a serious WTF moment when you step back and think about the fact there's artillery or whatever in proximity to a nuclear power plant. And in Ukraine of all countries. For f*ck sake.
Ye can forget about NATO crossing into Ukraine to help. The only way NATO is getting involved is if Putin rolls across a NATO border
More explosions, very worrying
Alot of bright flashes on that camera now and smoke.
It does deteriorate over time ,
So, news from external sources must have been seeping in...and its effects has Putin in worried. Good.
can somebody email the guy in charge or give him a call to tell him about the fires in the nuclear plant?
Why have they no stingers
If they had gamne over on those armored vehicles.
I just cant see the west or Nato getting involved (well apart from supplying arms to Ukraine).
The risks are just too high and even when Putin inevitably starts ramping up bombing civilians, the west still wont get involved.
However it would be a completely different story if a Nato country was attacked by Russia, all bets would be off. NATO would have to defend the territory otherwise NATO would be finished. I dont think it would lead to a nuclear war though, even in the event of Russia and NATO engaging directly, it would end up with Russia withdrawing and unless NATO decide to invade Russia I cant see why it would lead to a nuclear end of the world scenario.
Yes and Russian storage conditions would not be very good so alot would be in worse condition than equivalent aged equipment in Britain or the US. Huge extremes of temperature too.
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