Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Putin is speaking now

If Russia use Nukes they will lose even Chinas support which they are absolutely reliant on.

So is it still a Special Military Operation?

That was a bit of a damp squid...

Oh no he has nukes yawwwn .

Meanwhile Russian realeased polls showing the support for the referendums

He has to call up the reserves, or in other words my army isn't big enough. I have lots of weapons and will use them, more likely trying to convince the home audience everything is fine. Everything I've seen over the last 7 months says to me he's full of ****.

I wonder does this play signify the end of the conflict from his perspective i.e say LNR/DNR are ours but Kherson has voted to stay with you so we will leave (to try give some legitimacy to these elections?)

Will they arm their reserves better then the LNR and DPR units I wonder? Surely they have slightly better stuff that they didn't want to waste on conscripted Ukrainians.

What's the difference between a reservist and a conscript? Is a reservist a semi pro soldier? Better trained ?

I'd imagine half of those silos will emit a puff of dust or confetti going on how well 'oiled' the military machine is proving to be. Just more shadow puppetry from an emaciated rat trying to make people believe it's a bear.

No one can answer that even in NATO.

There would be a suite of measures.

1 to 10 basically.

They'd range from political and economic, to a no fly zone, to wiping out the black fleet to nuking Belarus.

Half a Ukraine would empty and every country in the world would mobilise their armies.

If and it's a massive If Putin got authorisation to do that it would change the world going forward, even if it was deescalated by his removal immediately.

Non nuclear treaties would be torn up on the spot.

Anyway the reality is the Russians are getting the shít belted out of them, the strong man came out of his cave to order more fodder into the meat grinder and then blurted out the usual threats.

Depressing news. Whether bluffing or not about nuclear weapons, it shows this bitter old bast*rd would rather double down and cause more death and suffering both to Ukraine and his own people than admit he made a mistake and cut his losses, and no one with any sanity can welcome that

There’s a certain irony that a soviet veteran of the battle for Berlin and holder of a Hero of the Soviet Union award, Shabsa Mashkautsan died on Sunday aged 98, in the USA where he emigrated to in 1989. At least if he was still living he’d have been beyond the grasp of Putin’s mobilisation of ex military personnel!!!!

Good luck getting out of Russia, they will make it illegal for men of conscription age to leave in such a scenario