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If this was already here, I apologize. I did look, but didn't see it. The other "warnings" were different.

So, is this an escalation in that he is targeting foreign (NATO) targets?

1 posted on 08/28/2025 9:28:40 AM PDT by Whatever Works
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another foot down the slipery slope


2 posted on 08/28/2025 9:34:38 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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That was nice of them. If they were hitting them during business hours they would have killed more.

And no, it’s not an escalation. The Brits launched that drone attack on their sub base and nuclear bombers. The Brits ran the missiles that sunk the Moskva. I learned once, if you get involved in a war, you might get shot it.

And NATO has no article V if they are volunteers inside Ukraine.


3 posted on 08/28/2025 9:35:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Well, if they don’t want their people (and facilities) hit in a war, maybe they should stay out of the war zone.

Also not trying to foment a full World War against Russia might make them a little more circumspect about hitting your stuff in Ukraine.


4 posted on 08/28/2025 9:37:23 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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The UK is a country run by quintessential Beta males that cant even protect their early and preteen girls from sexual assault from Pakistani third world dirt Baggs in their own damn country.

Good luck stepping up to Russia.


6 posted on 08/28/2025 9:41:07 AM PDT by suasponte137
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Just a tap on the shoulder to say “We see you”.


7 posted on 08/28/2025 9:41:56 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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Re: "5:40 AM missile strike"

Since no EU government employee shows up before 9:00 AM, this should not be interpreted as provocative.

Unless, of course, any of the near by coffee shops or restaurants were also damaged.

8 posted on 08/28/2025 9:43:39 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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” ‘It shows that the Kremlin will stop at nothing to terrorise Ukraine, blindly killing civilians, men, women and children, and EVEN targeting the European Union’. “

Kaja Kallas (From Estonia, roughly the size of Denver and about twice the population lol)

The EU can blow up pipelines, bridges, derail trains, sink ships, send drones everywhere, etc. But if anyone ever hits back, they are shocked, flabbergasted, and amazed.

This is what you get from a Fem-ocracy.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 9:45:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Kind of a bummer though, the people likely to be hurt were night watchmen or janitors. I’d much rather the spies and military liaisons...... oops, I mean “cultural diplomats” get hit.


10 posted on 08/28/2025 9:48:12 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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I think these actions by Putin are very foolish.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 9:48:55 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Here’s some of what’s coming now:

“Russian special forces have now entered in Odessa. And they have been targeting strikes against military installations
and infrastructure. If they occupy Odessa, of course, what does that mean? That means Ukraine becomes a landlocked
country with no seaports. And that means Ukraine effectively ceases to be a real country.”

-Clayton Morris (Former FOX News reporter)


12 posted on 08/28/2025 9:50:55 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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So, is this an escalation in that he is targeting foreign (NATO) targets?

No

A NATO target by definition would have to be within a NATO nation.

Any "neutral" nation has the responsibility to prepare and evacuate their personnel in a known war zone.

NATO has NO dog in this fight.

Trump understands that.

Any support the US has given has NOTHING to do with the NATO treaty.

14 posted on 08/28/2025 9:51:15 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Kaliningrad is still a good target.


17 posted on 08/28/2025 10:02:11 AM PDT by fruser1
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Larry Johnson on the current situation:

Well, we saw Donald Trump the other day tweet that the fault of Biden was that he forced the Ukrainians to always be on the defensive. Except that wasn’t true. We go back to September of 2022 when the Ukrainians launched a counter offensive against Russian positions and the Russians basically had they had no military presence to speak of just some border police where they were driven out
of the northern part of Kersan which is north of the Donbass. Um then in June of 2023 they launched another counter offensive and in the process they lost between an estimated 100 200,000 soldiers in a failed counterattack that was completely planned and directed by US military commanders uh General Cavali among others sitting in Stuttgart or Vbaden. Uh then in uh August uh 2024 uh Ukraine again launched another offensive into Kursk and that led to the deaths of 80,000 uh Ukrainian soldiers. So what
we’ve seen is this repeated pattern where Ukraine is incapable of mounting successful offensives and holding that
territory. Russia has pushed back in every single one of those instances. And what’s going on right now started off in February of 2022 with Russia having about 175,000 soldiers uh in their offensive into the start of the special military operation and they were outnumbered you about 5 to
one by the Ukrainian forces. uh we now three and a half years later have seen those numbers flip. So that Russia has
right now about 650,000 trained soldiers, experienced personnel that have been that have had minimum 3 to four months of training on the front lines all along the line of contact from the Sunumi region in the north down to
Odessa in the south. Whereas Ukraine is its army is right now estimated to be about 350 to 400,000. Uh the lopsided
uh losses that you know western propagandists continue to lie about what Russia’s experienced and ignore the the true cost for Ukraine. Uh in in the most recent exchange of bodies where Russia turns over the dead Ukrainians that it has captured or taken possession of and uh Ukraine does the same with Russian soldiers. Russia received 19 dead Russian soldiers. Russia in turn delivered 1,000 Ukrainian dead.
So it’s a 20 to1 ratio. For every one Russian soldier that’s dying, there are 20 Ukrainian soldiers dying. And what we
see taking place, the demographic changes taking place inside Ukraine are horrific. Uh you know, what used to be a
country of about 42 million people is now down to about 28 million. And they they simply don’t have the manpower to
sustain these kinds of losses.”


21 posted on 08/28/2025 10:08:44 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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Hopefully they smashed the facilities into a skidmark.

British femboys and Euro (NATO) globaloids have no business in Kiev whatsoever, besides making war on Russia.

If they don’t like getting shot at, just stay TF out.


23 posted on 08/28/2025 10:19:09 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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Can’t possibly be an escalation. Trump says that Pooty told him he wants peace. He must have told Trump the truth since they have such a good relationship and all that.

/s for those folks in Rio LInda


35 posted on 08/28/2025 11:18:43 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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For once I’ll give Russia the benefit of doubt. They were probably aiming for a school or apartment building.


37 posted on 08/28/2025 11:41:22 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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NATO provocateurs. Why are NATO countries sticking their nose into an East European dispute which does not involve them at all?

39 posted on 08/28/2025 12:21:43 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Maybe Britain can round up some of the criminal migrants they like to protect, and send them off to fight in Ukraine.


41 posted on 08/28/2025 1:27:42 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Ukraine is lucky Kiev doesn’t look like Gaza City.


51 posted on 08/28/2025 8:42:40 PM PDT by McGruff
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