Posted on 05/22/2024 10:04:16 AM PDT by bitt
The world is getting more and more dangerous by the day.
With NATO, the EU and Russia entangled in an European conflict that keeps escalating, it is very bad news that nuclear weapons are now the talk of the day.
The Russian Federation forces have begun the ‘first stage’ of exercises to simulate preparation for the launch of tactical nuclear weapons.
Ordered by recently reelected President Vladimir Putin, the exercises are reportedly linked to what Moscow calls ‘militant statements’ by Western officials that ‘create security threats for Russia’.
Reuters reported:
“Nuclear analysts say the exercises are designed as a warning signal by Putin to deter the West from wading more deeply into the war in Ukraine. Western countries have provided weapons and intelligence to Kyiv but have refrained from sending troops.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said this first stage of the drill involves Iskander and Kinzhal missiles.
“It is aimed at ensuring that units and equipment are ready for ‘the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian state in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against the Russian Federation’, the ministry said.”
The exercises are led by the Southern Military District, which lies adjacent to Ukraine and newly annexed territories.
The situation has escalated so much that Reuters feels it has to try and guess the results of such an attack – which unfortunately is not unthinkable anymore.
“In theory the use of such a weapon could deliver a stunning shock to the West without necessarily triggering a full-blown nuclear war, though the risk of triggering a cycle of escalation would be huge.”
Russia is reported to have about 1,558 non-strategic nuclear warheads.
Watch: Video released by the ministry showed missiles being transported in a convoy of military vehicles and placed in position ready for firing.
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“ESCALATION: Russia Begins Tactical Nuclear Weapons Drill Near Ukraine’s Border ‘To Counter Militant Statements by Western Officials’”
Truth: To counter international opposition to its invasion of Ukraine.
Operation Steadfast Defender 2024, beginning in January 2024, runs thru end of May - just over one week to go.
Trump said this about Putin’s constant nuclear war threats.
“Look, Stuart, when he goes in and he kills thousands of people are we going to just sit by and watch?
This country will be in 100 years from now they will be talking about what a travesty, a horrible thing this is. We can’t let that, just on a human basis we can’t let that happen, and then he says that there are nuclear power but we’re a greater nuclear power.”
“But if we didn’t have it we couldn’t talk but I listened to him constantly using the n word , that’s the n word, and he’s constantly using it. The nuclear word, and we never talk, we say oh, he’s a nuclear power, but we’re a greater nuclear power.
We have the greatest submarines in the world, most powerful machines ever built, most powerful and they got built under me. Most powerful machines ever built and nobody knows where they are and
You should say look , if you mention that word, one more time, we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth up and down your coast. You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these thousands of people die. It’s going to be hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of people by the time it ends.””
When the US is losing because of inefectual limited action, they just quit, like we did in Vietnam. Russia has a different MO (Usually). Unless this thing gets wrapped up, I expect them to use tactical nukes. I’ve actually said this since about six months into this fiasco.
Who’s gonna stop ‘em? Certainly not Biden. And they only have until November to act. Which is something else I’ve said since Biden took office - that bad players know they only have until the next presidential election to do what they want to. And they don’t need to be in any kind of hurry. They can wait until it’s “almost” too late to act.
And I fully expect them to act. Hence my tag line.
Your assumption is there will be legitimate elections in the US.
This business will get out of control, it’ll get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
-From the movie “Red October”.
From 2012:
Russia moves strategic nuclear missiles to Cuba
Pravda ^ | 1 August 2012 | Lyuba Lulko
Posted on 8/2/2012, 1:27:22 PM by moonshot925
With the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on May 11 of this year (2012), our country has not only resumed work in the electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed the latest mobile strategic nuclear missiles “Oak” on the island. They did not want to do it the amicable way, now let them deal with this,” Putin said.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
“The Russian Federation forces have begun the ‘first stage’ of exercises to simulate preparation for the launch of tactical nuclear weapons.”
Just exercises.
Uh-huh. Where have I heard this before?
I’ll call it even odds that the Russians will fire nukes into Ukraine before their ‘exercise’ is over. They’re stupid, arrogant, ignorant, and desperate enough to do it.
A few days ago you said, "My husband fought the Russians and he killed some of them too."
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4237446/posts?page=27#27"
This is not possible unless your husband isn't an American or he is ~125 years old. Did you simply fabricate that statement and , if so, would that make you as "stupid, ignorant and desperate" as your hated RuZZians are to you?
One more thing: Given that your tagline says, "RuZZians aren't people," a dehumanizing exclamation in the same vein as what the Nazis said about Jews, will you remove it? Are you really implying that you'd like to see a genocide against Russian people?
It's pretty telling when somebody spews out the fact that their "husband fought and killed Russians", and then refuses to even clarify, or expound on it, pretending instead that they never said it. Is it a figment of her own imagination? It's kind of like Old Joe saying “When the stock market crashed [in 1929], Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.”
Were there TV's back when MeganC's husband killed those Russians?
I believe there were. Have you seen the pictures of them in the cockpits of the zeppelins like the ones Meggie's hubby flew when he was fighting and killing RuZZians back in 1917?
Yeah, that's the ticket!
It was gory.
“Were there TV’s back when MeganC’s husband killed those Russians?”
Yes, and in all likelihood those Russians were transvestites (TVs). You people do seem inordinately and unnaturally obsessed with sexual perversions so it stands to reason.
Tell me Angelo, is Connecticut having a nice spring this year?
[MeganC #12] I’ll call it even odds that the Russians will fire nukes into Ukraine before their ‘exercise’ is over. They’re stupid, arrogant, ignorant, and desperate enough to do it.
I'll take that bet at any odds.
Now Meggie's really trying to intimidate me! Ooh! Very creepy! Connecticut must be nice, Meggiopath, but I've never lived there.
Hey Meggieopath, how's your RevMommy doing? Give her my regards. Heh. . .
By the way, were you lying when you recently wrote, "My husband fought the Russians and he killed some of them too."
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4237446/posts?page=27#27"
Flop! Flop! Flop! Sweat! Sweat!
How did your husband confirm that the men he fought and killed were actually Russians?
Flop! Sweat! Flop! Flop!
Are you next going to threaten to sic "the Feds" on me as you have threatened to do to other Freepers?
Please do threaten to sic "the Feds" on me. You'll enjoy what happens soon afterwards. . .
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