A common theme lately are fires starting on the top levels of Russian buildings. When they do. Firefighters have no means to stop the fires.
And you can be 100% sure that Putin is fully aware of this as well...hence all the Medvedev Nuclear threatening. But no actual nuclear attacks...yet, and I don't think that there will be either. Putin is one sick individual, but he's not stupid.
At this time of the year, the Nuked Chelyabinsk will have less snow around it.
he was supposed to go to kiev this month and sign a deal but has cancelled his trip
the buy european bit by the french is the reason europe cannot supply ukraine witj what it needs
mike johnsons cv, some salty language in it
The Rude Pundit: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Hates Nearly All of Us
Can anyone tell the difference between a nuked Chelyabinsk and a non-nuked Chelyabinsk?
Sure thats always a possibility, especially if he's pre-planned the attack. One thing that I am pretty sure about is that the EU, UK and the US have all war gamed this situation, and there are not just one, but multiple responses to this scenario. As well as taking out Moscow and St. Petersburg, you can be sure that the main military centers will be hit at the same time (or maybe even before Moscow and St Petersburg) Bottom line, the Russia that Putin knew will be gone. It will all have been for nothing.
What if the Russian government had already went east of the Urals before that, like Stalin in the alternate history novel Fatherland?
Once they can hit Moscow and St Petersburg, that's effectively Russia. The twin heads of the snake.
France and the UK have over 500 nuclear weapons between them! More that a few western cities I'd say..
If the US leaves NATO and Russia then invades at least one eastern NATO member state to start with, Russia would have enough nukes to wipe out western and central Europe many times over but Britain and France would not have enough to do anything more than destroy a few cities in western Russia at most. Would Mutually Assured Destruction be redundant in that case?
Thats because no law can be passed in the US unless it passes all 3 branches house, senate and president who then signs the law. The senate is inherently an undemocratic institution which is weighted in favour of small population states which tend to be very conservative against the bigger population states and thus a build in bias in favour of conservatism is part of their system.
Just browsing recent articles on Novoya Gazeta.
Here are some snapshots as a country collectively loses its mind and descends further into totalitarianism:
Imagine if all of those cranks on twitter who get offended by everything suddenly had the power to get people arrested on trumped up charges. That seems to be what is happening right now in Russia. A bunch of ghouls looking for excuses to throw others to the wolves so that they can feel like they are doing their part (without actually going off to fight in the war of course.)
I really hope the new aid is passed soon, but I am unfortunately still pessimistic.
(As you imply) Trump ultimately sets the Republican party agenda, and I mean their (Manchurian!) candidate recently said publically he would throw the mooching Europeans (and by extension the Ukrainians) to the wolves, let Putin work his will. The Republicans as a collective seem to be...well...okay with that really.
Doesn't look like the elected Republicans in the US will expend political capital this year to oppose what Johnson is doing, or this dangerous stuff Trump is coming out with, so it must fit with what a big portion of the party base believes now. Silence and doing nothing gives consent. I am an 80s Cold War child, and it is incredible to me, though I suppose the earlier history (mid to late 1930s and early WW2 period) shows this kind of political current is not unprecedented for US politics.
I think Ukraine (and Europeans) should be planning for the aid not to come through till post the next US election. I am of course assuming the Democrats win it there. I suppose even if they don't, there may be more open battle betwen the factions inside the Republicans over the issue, with the US election out of the way. There is serious disagreement among them on Ukraine, but seemingly not enough will there to go hard against Trump, and support the Biden admin. goals in an election year.
This is the big one, every finger I have crossed it passes the house. Will be a huge shot in the arm for Ukraine.
Just another day of threatening your neighbours again.
What a bizarre post. I'll leave it there, not worth trying to have the discussion.
The real issue to be overcome in the house is Mike Johnson. He's already signalled that he's not keen. And if he doesn't schedule the vote then it will never occur.
He's been making noise again that he wants border control measures as part of this. However the 4 month long highly conservative negotiated border control + foreign aid failed in the senate last week. Astoundingly voted against by the very republicans who negotiated the bill. Utter madness. But that's the Republican party under the influence of Trump for you. And Johnson was against it before the details of the bill were even revealed. So it's pretty obvious that Johnson is just kinda doing what Trump wants.
So this leaves a few options.
As far as I've read these are the options available. But then I'm not political expert either so take everything I say with a grain of salt. There's enormous pressure to get this bill passed but also substantial opposition. I do think if it makes it to the floor for a vote it'll get enough votes. But getting there will be the real battle. So fingers crossed.
If that was the case America would be a pariah state too, no??
What else can you expect from a Country where its own women will not bring babies into the World???
Sounds like something from the Great War. Would be shame if there was an unfortunate 'accident' on the train.
Hopefully sorted soon.
Our population isn't dropping at the rate it has increased however AFAIK, and giving credence or platform to the Great Replacement racists isn't particularly conducive to sensible debate on the topic either. Certainly Japan's a singular example given it has had a low birthrate for a long while, coupled with a minuscule inward migration policy.
By all means I think a great amount of our problems, from lack of vital services (like childcare, police, health pros etc), to food supply to conflict come down to the fact that the world population went from 4.4 billion to 8 billion and growing since I was born in 1980 - but bigotry over brown people "invading" one's country isn't either part of the problem or solution.
@pixelburp "In what respect? Not sure a noted right-wing senator espousing The Great Replacement conspiracy theory has much to contribute here. For sure we know the MAGA crowd are hell-bent on stopping Ukrainian aid, this guy's rant is only confirming what we know about their demagoguery."
Long term, population depletion has consequences. Even short term. Russia's population is decreasing by 700,000 per year. Not to mention those being killed in Ukraine - that's another 300,000. Likewise with Japan and most western countries. There are endless ramifications from this that affect current policy in all countries.
France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe (economist.com)
We really need to close down their spying and lying HQ at Orwell Road.
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