Green men
Nukes are a bit like money. Once you amass a certain amount everything you amass after that is pointless.
No, he would do it to win the war, by rendering NATO impotent. If they (Russia) were to do it, they would already have decided the west would not engage in a nuclear war. I suspect it’s the main reason NATO or the US will not get involved, they know he is capable of it. He also has the weapons, which we don’t.
Putin in December 2021 " I have always said and can repeat it now, that leading military countries will of course possess the weapons that Russia has today. I mean hypersonic weapons. But since 2018 nobody has developed these weapons. They will do it eventually but by the time they do, we will likely have means to counter it".
The timing is significant, that was two months ago, and last week he warned of the west interfering or “you will see a response you have never seen before”. Just a hypothesis as to why he has gone so far out on the limb.
But he will not win the war that way. He would only do it if he was losing. And if he does it, Moscow will be wiped out. The consequences of not wiping Moscow out would become greater than the cost of wiping Moscow out.
What is hypersonic only a first strike weapon. NATO has that in abundance with silent ballistic nuclear submarines. MAD assurance is still a reality. Nobody wins a nuclear war.
Would you do it? You’re the US president. You get the call that one of NATO’s sites is going to be vaporized in 3 minutes. Would you order an all out strike that guarantees all life on the planet gone with 30 minutes, save a few cockroaches. Would you?
Ukrainian parliament member Kira Rudik told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Monday’s negotiations with Russia at the Belarus-Ukraine border resulted in “heavier air strikes” in Kyiv.
Rudik, who is located in Kyiv, said that the strikes were “anticipated” because Russian President Vladimir Putin’s words cannot be trusted.
“Tonight, there was ‘peaceful negotiations,’ that obviously resulted in heavier air strikes after — right after the negotiation ended up. And right now, the air strikes intensified and there are more of alarms for the whole night. We anticipated this because — let me give you some tips and tricks on talking to Putin. When he says, ‘I want peace,’ this means, ‘I’m getting my troops to kill you.’ If he says, ‘It’s not my troops,’ it means, ‘It’s my troops and I am gathering them.’ And if he says… ‘I’m retreating,’ this means ‘I’m regrouping and getting more troops to kill you,’” she said.
“So it’s not news for us when he went on a ‘peaceful negotiation’ … that it will end up bringing more troops, destroying more buildings and trying to kill more Ukrainians,” Rudik explained.
She added, “So, I spent my day today really gathering everything that I can so the resistance team that I formed can survive the siege if there will be one. And we anticipate that there will be a siege in Kyiv.”
Rudik also said that Putin will be “raising the stakes” in the coming days.
“Our first fear is on the air force attacks that will be intensifying. And we have seen that today, already. So tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, there will be more of them to create terror and to create fear. Which we expect. That’s why we are not afraid. Second, is he bringing more forces and he will actually try to close in and out to Kyiv. This is something that we are fighting from our side to make sure that he cannot close the entrances and exits to the city. This is where the resistance comes in. And of course, we will be trying to get into the negotiations,” Rudik said.
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Thats how it works. You have to.
Mutually assured destruction.
Whatever happened to the good old fashioned nuclear bombs that just wiped out cities?
If you wiped out the world save for the cockroaches you’d still have Russian bots online.
No, it’s a tactical nuke not aimed at a civilian center, in the European theater. He can hit a NATO site in less than 5 minutes. So, what do you do in response?
Goodbye mate, too bad we won’t see another Galway Tipp trilogy.
Sleep well lads.
The answer to that is programmed. Putin knows that too. How many millions is he willing to take with him.
Again, I am not cheerleading any of this. He must be taken out.
Good night horse.
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Great band great song
I might have skipped the answer somewhere along the way but why don’t the Shevchenko’s fire a few rockets at this 5k long convoy of Russki tanks and fuck them out of it?
Explain it to me like I’m not an expert in wartime strategy.
They don’t have rockets.
They don’t have any fighter jets? They don’t have any anti-tank weaponry?
Right, could they not then just plant a load of semtex up the road and take out the first half dozen tanks. Rinse and repeat a few times and see how far the rest want to go.
This convoy of tanks seem like an incredibly exposed and vulnerable target to take out?
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Maybe I am an expert in wartime strategy.