Russia - threadbanned users in OP

why would the get rid of their only fighter jet leaving with F35s which aren't dogfighters

Eh.... what? 1) the F35 is a multirole fifth generation platform and this includes air superiority and "dogfighting". 2) Dog fights are consigned to the history books and Hollywood for the most part. Much like Tom Cruise evading an AA missile fired at close range... The reality is very different. An F35 operating against say Russian fourth gen fighters no matter how maneuverable they are as they do their thing at air shows to whoops from the crowd, would acquire, track and fire a beyond visual range AA missile at the Russian aircraft long before the Russian aircraft's radars had even seen the F35's. A flight of F35's would also be acting as a fully connected datalink swarm among themselves and overall battlefield intel from AWACS and the like. Even if they were somehow jumped by Sukhois and forced to fight on their terms it would still be a likely win for the F35s.

I remember Threads and other such TV movies about WW3, like The Day After, By Dawn's Early Light and When The Wind Blows. So? Russians had similar such flics on their side and indeed among the closest we ever got to the mushroom clouds going up were around the Cuban Missile Crisis and an alert in the 80's, it was two Russians who said nope. BTW they weren't so realistic. EG the threat of nuclear winter has been shown to have been very much oversold. Ditto for radiation levels.

The "biological weapons factory" story is a beyond incomprehensibly stupid one to believe. Why in god's name would anyone build such a facility right beside an "enemy" where it can be spied on, even taken over, when you can build one at "home" far from any such risks? And seeing as it's not the 19 bloody 40's you could deliver any biological weapons payload from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world in a matter of hours. And in top of that you say the Russians have secured the area yet even their spin doctors and propaganda machine hasn't said diddly about such a facility. One might think they'd be screaming about it from the rooftops, and yet... Maybe you also believe the Russian tales of weaponised pigeons and mosquitos? If so I have some magic beans to sell you. Christ almighty. How bloody gullible are you?

I note you're also parroting the Russian spin re inflation. But you ignore their spin about us starving and freezing to death, because we aren't and you aren't and you know it to be utter bollocks.

But OK, let's say everything the Russians claimed was true, and it's demonstrably not, let's even say it was a trap by the dastardly "West"(AKA America). Russia escalated. Russia invaded. Russia flattened cities and left fields cratered. Russia has caused millions to be displaced. Russia has killed and injured tens of thousands of Ukrainians, men woman and children AND tens of thousands of dead and injured Russians too. And Russia continues to "escalate" by trying to steal the land that's not theirs killing Ukrainians and their own men to do it. As we speak Ukrainians and Russians are dying right now and that's down to one man and his minions and he and they aren't in Ukraine.

But let's say we were all dropped on our heads as babies and lost a few IQ points and sued for peace. What peace would you be willing to tell Ukrainians to take? What guarantees would you expect from Russia? Whatever about the Americans and lord knows they can be utter **** geopolitically, it's incredibly difficult to find an treaty in history which Russia have signed that they didn't break when they thought they could.