Russia - threadbanned users in OP

If western ships are sent there will we have a Cuban missile style standoff?

I don't believe that the Russians are capable of opening up a brand new front with 100k men.

The fighting you're reference is taking place near Kupyansk. The scale of the fighting is likely very small.

Love to see Turkey get involved here, but I'd say think they said they wont risk escalation

Well the short ( and accurate answer to all these vote catching low hanging fruit woke candidates) If Putin is not stopped now, then he will have to be stopped when he joins with his erstwhile Chinese Friend, Xi Jinping if we go to war over Taiwan, and you can rest assured the price will be far higher then, and not alone financially, but in blood shed, American blood shed. Fighting the cartels should be enough of a vote puller without affecting support to Ukraine, which as far as these things go, is pretty much small beans. Its just De Santis making noise.

Fast to criticise, I've been openly critical of the slow actions of the west since day one , while others want to be cheerleaders, I prefer real action that would have prevented this war in the first place,or given the Ukrainians the ability to actually beat the Russian occupation force,

So now Russia is physically threatening Ukrainian and international shipping,now remember when we all watched Russian ships full of stolen grain from Ukraine sailing through the black sea and onto the Mediterranean sea before offloading the cargo ships which turned up later in Syria and and other friend of Russias ports , what did the international community do, absolutely nothing, when cargo ships carrying Russian weapons via Iran and Syria sailed through the Mediterranean sea and onto the black sea for occupied ports in Ukraine and other ports in Russia what did the international community do , nothing,

What do I expect the international community to do now absolutely nothing as per usual,

But I do expect that they man up and say we will prevent anyone threatening Ukrainian shipping in the black sea or anywhere else and we will protect grain shipments.

But what will actually happen,a statement on social media and nothing else,

Totally agree, even General Mark Miley is saying that they need to get serious about sending weapons to Taiwan now ,but for the the last while Pacific countries have been invited to NATO conferences which suggests a pivot towards a future conflict that doesn't involve Ukraine,

The biggest issue in America is American society is divided and getting further apart on a daily basis,the majority of Americans have little or no opinion on the war in Ukraine,they do seem to be getting more vocal about internal issues immigration and Fentnal,than anything else,I think they believe the Russians are old News, I had a weird experience stateside recently where during a live performance audience members were asked where they came from one lady said Ukraine and got booed like she was some badguy several others passed no incidents till a lady said she was from Moscow and people started cheering ,

You have the right and far crying about them or that's commies and yet Americans were Cheering a Russian and booing a Ukrainian,

Even certain types in the media are pushing the notion that they need to strike the Chinese,

I get the impression that a lot of Americans hate their government/cia/fbi...

Russia has no problem standing on the heads of people who support it, number one.

Number two, food shortages in Africa/Middle East would affect Europe via increased migrant numbers, and that's always great fuel for political instability, something which Russia would be keen enough to promote among its enemies.

Three, I presume Ukraine gets money for the grain it ships, and that's a resource it needs as much of as it can get.

Russia keeps on pushing. It would not be before time that the West pushes back.

Another high-ranker gone

"First pictures of the work of clusters"

Can't put a percentage on it. It is just an impression I get. America is very divided and has lost the patriotism they had in the days of J.F.K.

On Monday night at Chornomorsk port Odessa in excess of 60,000 tons of grains went up in flames after Russian strikes,

Barely been a peep said about it in the media,if Ukrainian grains don't leave Ukrainian ports the world and Europe will face shortages and price increases