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.
Thanks Francie. Also for the experts here , based on Russias pre war arms inventory ( which I don't know ) even if 300k soldiers are called up , do Russia have much weapons, tanks planes etc left?
Sorry if above is a stupid question, but they seem to have lost loads in Ukraine from my untrained eye or is this only a fraction of what they have not yet used.
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
Have the clique arrived yet to tell us not to talk about nuclear weapons?
Ignorance is bliss.
Putin looks like a man unhinged at the moment and my concern levels have risen over night without a doubt and that seems to be backed up by a lot of the talking head experts in the media this morning. We are facing into the most interesting and frightening winter in my 49 years on this earth that's for sure.
There is no doubt he's lost the dressing room and is capable of anything at the moment.
There is no "experts" here for goodness sake 🤣
It's just a few lads and lassies giving their opinion on the war.
This needs to be met with huge statements of intent from western leaders now, they need to double down and show that they are committed to supporting Ukraine.
Any signs of weakness or softening from western nations towards Russia now will be a disaster, unfortunately the likes of Macron and Scholz will probablly do just that.
Is there a likelihood now that we will see an influx of Russian asylum seekers if conscription is on the table?
In Russia military service is compulsory so every able adult male is a reservist.
This is both good and bad news. Good news is that they lost so many proper soldiers so they need to do this, bad news is that they will probably send savages from the far end of Russia, the same they sent to "liberate" Eastern Europe in WW2 and we all know what kind of people were those.
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!!!!
Russia admit to 5,937 dead, Z channel says the real number is higher.
Good luck getting out of Russia, they will make it illegal for men of conscription age to leave in such a scenario
Macron has actually made a firm statement asking neutral countries to take a side. Scholz has just facilitated the transfer of new weapons to Ukraine.
I don't see any evidence of the position softening, quite the opposite in fact.
That likely doesnt include Wagner, LPR/DPR militias, 'volunteer' battalions etc
In this case not a whole lot of difference.
Poorly trained,paid , equipped old fokies being sent to be slaughtered in Ukraine.
They will struggle to raise 10,000 never mind 300,000
What good is 300k people if you have ran out of weapons ?
Yeah 55,000 and increasing daily...
Gotta love the Ukrainians.
The biggest spike in internet traffic yesterday was searches "how to leave Russia"
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There's several on here..
Does he know the moment he takes out nuclear weapons World War 3 begins?
Dont forget people to command and train them, even if they are calling up reservists with previous experience they cant just be thrown onto the front lines tomorrow, they need some basic unit bootcamp training and they are short on decent command and nco ranks at all levels thanks to the last 7 months of shite.
Coming in second is how to break your arm....
He's the one currently hiding In a bunker.
He's all bluff ,oh I've nuclear weapons yeah your not the only ones with nuclear weapons others have professional an well trained and equipped militaries too .
They should start standing up the EU battle group's and deploy them into Poland
they will probably send savages from the far end of Russia, the same they sent to "liberate" Eastern Europe in WW2 and we all know what kind of people were those.
It'll hardly be the same people. Sure they'd be in their 90's now.
The majority of Russian men get out of doing military service by going to university or through bribery or other means, so while in theory your statement is true the reality is very different.
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That's going to upset some on here
What's more: What good is 300k people if they are piss-poor in warfare and will get only a week-long boot-camp from equally feckless career soldiers?
Yeah but that doesn't fit the narrative some posters here have...
And to borrow a phrase "Winter is coming" do they have adequate cold weather supplies to equip and sustain 300,000 reservists? Somehow I doubt it
They are the only ones with nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. Is the west willing to sacrifice themselves through mutually assured destruction if nukes are used because of Ukraine?
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