The anniversary of Hitler's death is tomorrow fortnight
The world should be so lucky this time around too
Not without risking significant intervention from other states and hugely escalating the conflict. Given the Russian military has taken some heavy losses, I can't see their generals going down that road. As regards 'Russia officially declaring war on Ukraine' surely that would be more to do with controlling the public narrative. At this stage the ordinary Russian has to be smelling a very large rat with the official messaging.
A military takeover and deposing Putin to a 'special hospital' remains Russia's best bet of getting out of this hole.
"As regards 'Russia officially declaring war on Ukraine' surely that would be more to do with controlling the public narrative. At this stage the ordinary Russian has to be smelling a very large rat with the official messaging"
Wonder what the ordinary Russian will think of their country loosing the war as opposed to failing the special military operation?
From the Ukraine postal service:-
"probably for the first time in history, when the queue for a postage stamp is bigger than for an iPhone"
Apparently being stated on Russian radio now, global war against all enemies lies ahead:-
A fair bit of speculation today that Russia might declare war and end the so called "special operation":
I don't know about complete unconditional withdrawal being the only acceptable terms under which Ukraine would agree to end to war. Not that Ukraine are in any mood to just let Russia take over their whole country or anything, but Zelenskyy already made overtures about things such as offering Ukrainian neutrality, but being put to a referendum. That referendum, if held, would likely return a vote of no to neutrality, but Zelenskyy could also offer full recognition of Russian sovereignty in Crimea and offer further secession refs in the areas comprising DNR and LNR, or maybe even the whole Donbas region. It is controversial the idea of ceding territory to a forceful aggressor, but Ukraine were never realistically getting back control of Crimea. LNR and DNR's situations seem a little more opaque to me in the sense of knowing exactly how much support there truly is for becoming a part of Russia or how much of that situation has been inflated by Russian backed separatists.
I would say that Russia occupying the coastal land bridge territory between Crimea and the Donbas is what Ukraine will find deeply difficult to accept unless their backs are really to the wall on it.
Well, it looks like the Moskva actually did f**k itself.
Ye're going to fight everyone on the pub!!
Go home lads, ye've have had enough to drink tonight.
The problem is Russia cant be trusted and Ukraine was neutral before Russia invaded in 2014.
A lot of hot air I would suggest and a sign the actual war in Ukraine is going very badly.
There's absolutely nothing stopping Russia from using them now if they decided to, other than the fact that such an escalation would have repercussions - which would be the case whether war was declared or not.
It's not like they're working to any set of rules, laws or ethics.
She's throwing out the usual threats again:-
Nonsense; it had considerable help from an understanding and sympathetic neighbour.
he is referring to the island incident.
It's like challenging everyone in the pub to a fight, when it's been proven you can't even blow the froth off your pint.
The embarressment of losing the Moskva the straw that broke the camel's back for Putin.
Although it's hard to take this tin pot army and regime seriously. Surely you would expect the Russian population to be starting to think wtf against such statements!??
So am I.
I would suggest the more realistic interpretation of his words would be that once Mariupol falls and they've "de-Nazified" Ukraine by "defeating" the Azov battalion that they can then claim the special operation is over.
There was another quote today from Peskov that supports this view:
"The main task is to liberate [Ukraine] from these nationalist battalions after all. The operation continues and the tasks that have been set are well known. They must and will be accomplished. There must be no doubts about that," the Russian presidential spokesman said.
As Peskov pointed out, "peaceful life is returning where nationalist battalions do not take civilians hostage and where these nationalist battalions do not open fire on social facilities and houses."
"However, in those places where nationalist battalions are engaged in what I spoke about, there is fierce struggle and all of them must be eliminated there," the Kremlin press secretary said.
Noting says "Denazification" like channelling your inner Goebbels:
"I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?"
Joseph Goebbels, The Sportpalast speech, Berlin 1943
It's no longer Russia's call to say when the war ends.
This would be a great yoke for the Ukrainians Video shows Israel testing its 'Iron Beam' air-defense system, which uses laser beams to intercept targets (msn.com)
Shots fired; and not just literally:
It's Kim Jug Onion.
I can confirm it. Lots of absolute derision from Russians at the government statement on the fate of the Moskva. It seems everyone in the country knows full well it was hit and sunk by two missiles and that the state media is lying to them (the idea that a small accidental fire on board could sink the biggest ship in the Russian fleet was obviously preposterous).
I see the resemblance.
I would be amazed if the Americans didn't already have something like this specifically for nukes. Considering what they have achieved in other areas of the military its hard to imagine they would go 50yrs since the Cuban missile crisis and not have come up with a solution to ensure their safety.
Definitely. If the Israelis have it the Americans have a hotter one.
In 2019, space-based interceptor development resumed for the first time in 25 years with President Trump's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act.[19] The program is currently managed by the Space Development Agency (SDA) as part of the new National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) envisioned by Michael D. Griffin.[20] Early development contracts were awarded to L3Harris and SpaceX.[21] CIA Director Mike Pompeo called for additional funding to achieve a full-fledged “Strategic Defense Initiative for our time, the SDI II".[22]
Maybe they're further further on with this than they're letting on publicly...
I never understood why people ridiculed the original 'Star Wars', seemed like a great idea to me if it could be made to work properly. In time could even render nukes obsolete...
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