“Stuff” may be a bit strong, they are pretty small especially compared to conventional explosives. And since the advent of the H-bomb it’s even more compact.
Everybody did, including Trump.
That means NATO goes in, full on. I don’t think putin’s that stupid, but you never know.
We could at least try to stop the killing of Ukrainian’s with an attempt at diplomacy. Ukraine cannot remove sanctions and all the rest. Ukraine can offer what it has, but it doesn’t have power to remove sanctions and all the rest done to cripple Russia. So Ukraine simply doesn’t have the bargaining power.
Perhaps it won’t work and Putin’s all in, and want’s to raze eastern Europe to the ground and that’s that. But, regardless, but I would like to see an attempt, even a little one before we start engaging. We can amass the troops using that as leverage in diplomacy, that’s how things used to work. But we’re dealing with people who cannot define what a “woman” is, so I don’t have much hope.
The problem is, is that what constitutes a strike against Russia by the NATO resides with Putin. We gave him the leverage to let him decide where the line is. So if he decides sending military aid is direct involvement, then NATO is at war. And he can decide to move those goal posts any time he wants. We gave him that power when we emptied our entire arsenal of non-military options all at once.
Those of us whom you detest have been warning what kind of guy he was since he tepidly decide to run in 2020. When it came to foreign policy in particular, he has yet to make a correct decision in 40 some odd years in his career. There is not a moment of foreign conflict he has not exploited for financial gain. Russia’s bombs are not just destroying Ukraine, but all the evidence of his corruption since he was VP. It’s a perfect scenario for him. Crimea was taken under his watch. Obama assigned him as the lead for all things Ukraine. Biden is as corrupt as they come. He portrays weakness because he is, in fact weak.
Why do you think this is happening now? He appeared weak from the start, Afghanistan proved it. He is massively incompetent. He really, literally has no idea what he is doing. And his handlers are pursuing their agenda’s the world be damned if necessary.
That’s why its difficult to tell who the good guys are, if any.
We have, bad, worse and worst. Ukraine is less bad then Russia, but only because Russia invaded them. Prior to that, they are pretty close when it comes to corruption and evil deeds.
We gave the Taliban more than that. We could have armed Ukraine to the teeth with the equipment we left behind in Afghanistan. We could have told Ukraine, “Hey man, we’re leaving and not taking all this stuff with us. If you can move it, it’s yours.” Look what Ukraine could have gotten for free if we really cared:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/23/staggering-costs--us-military-equipment-left-behind-in-afghanistan/?sh=1d99bf4541db
U235 is down right abundant compared to what it takes to make fusion bombs, which a fairly large portion of our stock pile and Russia’s stock pile is.
You need Deuterium, Tritium, Uranium, Lithium deuteride, Plutonium and styrofoam for a fusion bomb. And both Russia and the US have plenty. But ICBM’s aren’t the only issue. They can be delivered many different ways in various strengths from planes, ships, trucks, tanks, etc.. You would use a fission bomb for a low yield targeted attack. The current stock pile makes Hiroshima look like a fire cracker.
Huh? China has been eating our lunch for the past 2 years. They make all our stuff. If China cuts us off, it will be way worse than anything we could do to Russia. China makes most of our critical basic medicines like Penicillin.
And why don’t we drill our own oil and make our own stuff? It would violate the Paris Climate Agreement. We have to off-shore our filth so we don’t see it, otherwise we’re killing the planet. Like bombs and war doesn’t, but we’re dealing with morons here.
Where do you think he gets his talking points from? His admin is full of well connected “former” media and big tech big-wigs. The DNC-MSM-Big Tech connection is uncanny and no accident. Don’t take my word for it. Feel free to look it up. You can’t make this shit up.
And this is why I am totally unsurprised at all that is going on. Biden is terrible, Harris is worse, Pelosi shames both of them in terms of corruption. It’s a big fat, unmitigated, but predictable disaster.
The problem is your sole source of information is the mainstream media, who lies regularly with reckless abandon. Putin wouldn’t have done it, if he didn’t believe his odds were very much in his favor. The fact that it all happened very shortly after a long and cheery negotiation with China tells a lot.
Does he want, what he says he wants from Ukraine or does he just want Ukraine? Either way, he gamed it so he wins.
The biden admin had the power and opportunity to prevent this and they have the opportunity to perhaps stop it and they won’t do it. Meanwhile, we secretly amass troops in Poland, which was a total ‘oops’ in that getting out, and the South Pacific. We can’t and won’t know what could have been because we didn’t even try.
As we mourn the plight of the Ukrainian people, know none of our leaders, in any country or of either party are lifting a finger to at least try to stop the invasion without further casualties. At least no leaders who actually have the means to stop any of it are trying.
Yup!
If you die from a bullet or a nuke, does it really matter? Your still dead.
LOL! Why not? I would do the same thing if I were him.
Does this sound like a man reeking of desperation, crippled and losing?
It hasn’t mattered to this point, why would it start? I think we in the west, started to believe in the dignity of human life and believed the lie our leader do too. It seems to me not to be the case. In our most civilized state as a planet, we managed to kill more people in 100 years, than history has as a collective. <-hyperbole (for the dense).
That’s because you believe in the delusion of MAD. I don’t know what it will look like, but I know it will most certainly not look the way we think it will. I do think western Europe in the biggest danger, though.
It’s not one man’s pride. It’s one man’s pride at the moment. There are loads of nasty people with loads of nasty pride, on both sides. And that’s the part people don’t want to hear.
Putin is the figure we hate, he’s not the only one who agrees with himself. He didn’t do this alone and most assuredly his death would escalate things massively.
So your willing to risk nuclear war over Smolnik or Ozd?
And what if NATO attacks?
