by mikeflood 65 Replies latest social current
Russia has 8 million males for the ages of 20-29. The prime military fighting age.
Russia does not have a limitless pool of men to invade Ukraine much less Europe. Half the reason Putin launched this war because this is the last generation that might be capable of creating something like the former Soviet Union. What makes the situation even worse is the majority are not even ethnic Russia anymore.
Putin has become predictable, dropping the threat to go nuclear whenever the war HE STARTED escalates.
Fighting together, Europe, the Nato nations and the U.S. would crush Russia overnight and Putin would likely be deposed by his own people. China would vanish from his side immediately, Unfortunately, it is a long shot that the military would ignore/defy him and refuse to go nuclear.
Biden has no clue of how to tamp the conflict down. Neither does Harris. Trump is over-confident that he has the magic words to talk Putin down. Thanks to the current administration, there may not be a solution that does not include the death of many many innocent persons.
Putin has become predictable, dropping the threat to go nuclear whenever the war HE STARTED escalates.
Fighting together, Europe, the Nato nations and the U.S. would crush Russia overnight
I've learned by reading tons of book on human psychology, tons of books on crime and murder, that when someone makes a threat against you, whether it's to shoot you or nuke you, You take his threats seriously. It doesn't matter if it's a small pussy man, a woman, a young teen, or a 71 year old dictator.
If Putin is attacked by Nato, and pushed into a corner, I wouldn't doubt he would go, but he would take most of Europe with him by nuking them. You are talking millions of people plus disruptions in food and fuel supplies, perhaps for years to come. Also they would now become vulnerable to other nations like China, Korea, Iran or others.
Several US Congressmen are so stupid that they have actually called for a tactical nuclear war against Russia. They have no idea that all it takes is a couple of nukes to hit American cities, and literally millions will die instantly and millions more will die because of disruptions in food delivery to several states, fuel disruption, chaos among the survivors, etc.
Flip a coin.
Russia, despite it's size and population has a very mixed record in conflicts.
Life seems cheap in the Russian Military, and it's soldiers are well aware of this.
Despite modern losses they have never used Nukes...(fingers crossed).
Ukraine is using the long range missile system ATACMS for first time yesterday....Russia fuming as usually....things could turn nasty really fast... they're not gonna let this red line without consequences this time.
Somebody say first world war was in Europe, second world war too....and if they are dumb enough....the third too.
Borg jumping up and down, I guess.
Just days after the United States allowed Ukraine to use its long-range missile for deep strikes within Russian territory; President Vladimir Putin has approved changes to his country’s nuclear doctrine.
The changes to the nuclear doctrine have been approved by Putin on Tuesday.
The most noticeable change is that it expands the conditions under which nuclear weapons can be used by Moscow.
To put things into perspective, Russia can now use nuclear weapons in instances when a non-nuclear state supported by nuclear power attacks its area.
The timing suggests that it is the U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval to Kyiv for using the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for deep strikes within Russian territory that has brought about this shift in the Russian nuclear doctrine.
When reports of the U.S. go-ahead for use of ATACMS had surfaced, Kremlin had warned that it could lead to a significant new round of escalation in the ongoing war.
The revised doctrine approved by Putin states that nuclear strikes by Moscow can be justified in case of aggression against the Russian Federation “by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state.”
It further states that nuclear retaliation by Russia can be carried out if there is a deployment of missile defense systems, medium- and short-range ballistic missiles, precision non-nuclear and hypersonic weapons, strike drones and directed energy weapons by a potential adversary.
Putin’s new nuclear rules shock West as Ukraine strikes Russia with US missile
