Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It’s of interest you referring to agreement re American supplied arms can be used to attack targets in UKr only and are not allowed to attack targets on Russian soil. That agreement was based on the circumstances that existed at that time .if certain circumstances change then some aspects on this agreement may change . Eg if Putin uses nuclear weapons, nerve gas, etc.

as a matter of fact you might remember that Putin and other very senior officials eg Russian ambassador to Irl , denied up to within a day or two of 24 Feb 2022 that Ru has no intention of attacking UKr . BUT, BUT, BUT things changed apparently in the meantime and Ru was left with no option but to invade .

So what is good for the goose is good for the gander,!

Describes Russian society in general:- Me Me Me and Me.

If you systematically destroy collective expression what else is left.?

I pity the poor Russian citizen.

"I pity the poor immigrant

Who wishes he would've stayed home

Who uses all his power to do evil

But in the end is always left so alone

That man whom with his fingers cheats

And who lies with every breath

Who passionately hates his life

And likewise, fears his death"

Bob Dylan

I think that the whole point of limiting what Ukraine could do with US supplied weapons as to avoid dragging the US into direct confrontation with Russia, and possibly ww3. So diplomatic speak, these US supplied weapons are to be used for defensive purpose's only. That does not interfere with what Ukraine does with home produced weapons, or what's supplied by other Country's that place no limits or restrictions on what they supply.

The west told Russia, in no uncertain terms, that if they go nuclear they will be hammered. The west has burned its bridges with this and won't back down.

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It looks like Ukraine have staged some sort of attack and had some success according to a Russian source.

There's geo-located footage of some wrecked Ukrainian vehicles in the area.

Will be interesting to see if this is just a once-off raid or the start of something bigger.

 "The notion that societies whose main preoccupation today are important things like gender and race politics is going to get involved in such a confrontation i'd struggle to believe."

I imagine their stockpile is in as good of shape as their regular force at this point.

was watching a documentary that under the Obama/GWB admins when it came time to refresh our nukes, we had actual encountered a ‘lostech’ issue: nobody knew how to make a critical bomb material anymore, Fogbank, it was super secret so it wasn’t written on the refrigerator and the engineers who hadn’t already died had forgotten how to make it. We spent a large sum of money reinventing it. In contrast I don’t see the Russians overcoming similar issues with their bombs should they arise.

Chloe is not happy.

I strongly believe that Russia will never deploy nuclear weapons as part of an offensive war. The only instance where it's really worthwhile to use them is if the integral territory of Russia is attacked in a grand strategic way and there is the real possibility of Russia succumbing as a sovereign state to a foreign invader. No other scenario makes their use worthwhile, not while there is at least one other power in the world with lots of nuclear weapons also.

I think it was Prof. Michael Clarke who outlined what America's response to a nuclear attack from Russia on Ukraine, which wasn't so much that America would hit Russia as America would hit Putin. As I've mentioned before, Putin is so scared of being killed, that he's not going to raise the likelihood to the level of a bunker bomb hitting the Kremlin to that level. Not if he can help it, anyway.

Russia will use nuclear weapons for threats and leverage, as we're seeing, but that's it. Forward deploying nukes in Belarus shows us that he wouldn't dare do the unthinkable, considering that the missiles bearing nuclear warheads can fly between continents. It is one hundred percent a peace of theatre.

Another attack?

It may be a good characterisation of whatever passes for the Russian urban middle class, i.e. the kind you're likely to meet on holiday in Thailand talking down to the wait staff. I don't know if it's typical of the peasants of the provinces, however. I've seen plenty of those old Bald and Bankrupt videos where he goes around those kinds of places and they seem friendly enough, and quite giving of what little they may have. In fairness, I don't expect that woman to say any different - if she says she doesn't want the car, she could get a window in exchange.

@briany " In fairness, I don't expect that woman to say any different - if she says she doesn't want the car, she could get a window in exchange."

Looks like a propaganda video to me.

On a lighter note and another example of Russia being behind the times, that pouf hairstyle which saw its peak here in the mid to late 2000s, appears to be alive and well in Russia.