I don't think the calculation is so easy. What way will the winds blow that day, will there be fallout, how far will it spread and over which countries, NATO countries, russia itself?
Liberally castrating and murdering prisoners of war
Don't think any calculations would come into it. Just the thought of "big explosion good" and screw the consequences.
I agree. There's no way, even if in serious military trouble, Russia will quietly withdraw. Like the Germans in 44-45, it will be a policy of retreat with maximum destruction, I'm sure indiscriminate rocket attacks on civilian infrastructure will increase again. Putin is on record as saying "a world without a strong Russia is a world not worth existing". Scumbags like that have to find people to punish for their own failures.
Australian media not afraid to go against the grain.
No, but they cannot sustain an economy strangled by sanctions, especially once Europe fully moves away from their energy supplies. If they hang in long enough they will become the backwater the US is hoping for.
You are on here complaining about Russia's tactics in Ukraine yet you advocate the nuking of a city of some 8 million people? As long as it's not your family there right....
To be fair it can also be applied to Russia. It woke up with Soviet Communism.
Its just a hypothesis. I hate the fact Nukes exist. But it would have been a better outcome for Humanity if the A bomb had been dropped on Moscow post ww2 . No Berlin Wall, No Cold War . No Arms race. No more Stalin. It would have stopped communism dead in its tracks and millions more being brutally subjugated and killed.
Some significant developments and information here.
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Russia is “running out of steam” in its war on Ukraine, the chief of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency, Richard Moore, said in a brief comment on Twitter on Saturday.
The MOD do not make claims lightly.
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Defence (MoD) said the Kremlin was “growing desperate”
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Twitter has posted a warning on the tweet: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
The tweet was in reference to Ukrainian soldiers 'deserve death by “hanging” and worse!
Good to hear a different view in the western media.
If they knew in advance, they would clear out. I'd imagine. But a blast of that magnitude would be seen far and wide, and especially at night. By now, also with so many dumps being targeted, people will not want to be anywhere near them, let alone work in them. They must be running out of "safe" places to use as stores.
I'll post this again for those who missed the first one
Nuclear is different. People are afraid of contamination. If you're working abroad to undermine public opinion, dousing them in radioactive fallout wouldn't be the best path to take.
Russia is slowly being grinded down into the ground left with nothing but ancient soviet weaponry. Could it be argued that the west could take advantage of Russia's vulnerability at this stage ?
Who claims he's a saint , Ukraines effectively been at war with Russia since 2014 , and Ukraine was already disaster of a country before then , he got in to power in 2019 ,(with a large majority )
And the line about he's no Churchill ? Ha , Churchill was a war prime minister , he wasn't a great peacetime leader...
But during Britain's dark moments in the second world war he provided leadership .
As has Zelensky , he stayed in Kiev , he said the right things ,he put the Russian invasion front and centre in every parliament in the west ..
When this is over people will point out his mistakes ,failings and weaknesses -but he was the guy who was there at the time - and he did what he could ..
It depends, take advantage how? If you mean some type of invasion, I would think no, then I would see a case for use of nuclear weapons.
He talks about Russian speaking Ukrainians, those are the same people who are resisting the invaders & fighting back against the tyrant murdering rapist scum. He's just repeating the same lies as the other deluded far right & hard left Putinist apologists.
A big part of the problem is Yanukovych, a Russian puppet, and his agents in the Ukrainian government, who started all this separatist stuff in the first place Orange Revolution - Wikipedia
Viktor Yanukovych - Wikipedia
Great to see questions being asked of this guy. He's not the person the western media have portrayed at all. Remember Saddam Hussain was "our guy" also at one stage as where the Taliban. Don't hold your breath and expect BBC/SKY UK/CNN or any more of the special interest media cartel to ask those questions any time soon though.
Interesting story here that deals with the hyper missile craze. As relevant to Russia and China to the rest. In short their is nothing fancy or special about them. Or if they even exist in the way we are lead to think.
You are being economical with the truth, to say the least. Saddam Hussein was regarded as a monster from when he started using chemical weapons against his own people, and when he invaded Kuwait. He might appear to have been regarded more favourably when he got into a war with Iran, but that's relative to Iran. The Taliban might have been regarded as less awful than Al Queda or Islamic State, but not "our guys".
Your reference to "the special interest media cartel" speaks volumes for you rather warped outlook.
And sometimes you have to ally yourself to fairly unsavoury characters, because the alternative is to allow even more awful characters to win. (I'm not implying that this applies to Zelensky, by the way - far from it)
How russia murdered Azovstal POW's
Surround them with Nukes ready to fire in preparation for if Putin launches a Nuke first then they can retaliate 360 degrees. I think force is what Russia understands or Putin more like. Russia has already threatened the world with Nukes several times since the war so why can't other countries do the same ? I wonder what Trump would have done ?
Indeed. If it wasn't for WW2 Churchill's name would be dirt in the west today. A pompous colonialist and racist. But he was there and led the country through the darkest years of the last century and that makes a lot of difference.
Zelensky is far from squeaky clean, with some dubious ties to certain oligarchs, and he may bear some responsibility in underestimaing the Russian threat, but since the end of February he has been pretty outstanding and that will always be to his credit.
Trump would have said "f*CK Ukraine and NATO, America first, and Putin's a pretty smart guy and he likes me too, isn't that tremendous?"
A washed up former conservative right-wing politician cum commentator on Rupert Murdoch's news channel is not exactly representative of the 'Australian media'.
Forget thirst for knowledge or the desire to better humankind, spite and malice are the biggest motivators that drive progress and innovation.
Of course a long way behind good old-fashioned greed.
And its not the first time it happens
When I saw the videos of the Azov fighters surrendering i wondered if they would have been better trying to fight their way back behind the line. An almost certain death but it would have been quick and they have taken a good few of the Russian thug army with them along the way.
My worst fears came true, the remaining ones are no doubt being tortured and starved before the Russians find some excuse to kill them too.
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