Posted on 02/27/2022 6:45:28 PM PST by Morgana
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered his military’s nuclear deterrent forces to be on alert as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine met increasing resistance as it enters its fourth day.
Putin told defense chiefs “high alert” status is imperative as the West was accused by Moscow of taking “unfriendly” steps against his country.
NBC News reports the move was in direct response to leading NATO powers making what he called “aggressive statements,” according to Tass, the state-owned Russian news agency.
Russia, like the United States, has thousands of nuclear warheads that it maintains as a deterrent to an attack.
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Adolph Putin
Ping
All that blocking of missile defense by the progressives is coming back to bite US in the ass now.
NATO powers making what he called “aggressive statements,”
What? Did someone say bad words to him?
He is unhinged. His people need to take him out before he kills them and the rest of us. If they do, they will be rewarded.
I think we haven’t considered the possibility that Putin is an idiot. I always thought he wouldn’t invade Ukraine apart from the breakaway Republics, because trying to occupy a huge, conquered nation would be ruinous for Russia. Now, I’m left that he had a bizarre notion that he could quickly decapitate the government, install his own, and actually govern Ukraine.... like he actually believes his own propaganda (which, frankly, had a smidgeon of truth under Poroshenko, but is laughable under Zelinskyy; Zelinskyy is not a Nazi.)
Nor with the democrats rigging end result.
"There is considerable risk that the US can screw up as badly in our economic attack on Russia
as the Russian’s are in their military attack on Ukraine."
Blam :”I agree.... be sure to get some Potassium Iodide. “(Hot link included)
My Comment : Potassium Iodide is used to ameliorate the effects of radiation exposure in the possible event of a nuclear incident.
Elsewhere in the 'hot link', there is a list of medical providers and listed 'trade names'.
” Potassium Iodide is used to ameliorate the effects of radiation exposure in the possible event of a nuclear incident.”
Not quite, it is intended to flood your system with iodine to limit uptake of radioactive iodine. It will do nothing for exposure to xray, gamma, alpha, or beta radiation and won’t slow uptake of tritium, radio cesium or strontium-90.
Wise words from Travis McGee
I would not rule it out. For Russia, this is on a level with our Cuban missile crisis. Allow me to explain.
You might not agree with an adversary (Russia in this case), but to dismiss and ignore their legitimate security concerns is dangerously stupid. It is always wise to look at a war or a potential war from the other side’s perspective, if only to improve the effectiveness of your own efforts.
Russia is not Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya or Serbia, easy (and safe) for America and NATO to slap around. Russia has the most powerful nuclear force on the planet. Miscalculation over Ukraine can rapidly escalate into full-blown war and a nuclear exchange. For Russia, Ukraine joining NATO is a redline worth going to war over. We ignore this at our own peril.
In 1962, we already had medium-range nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Turkey. When the USSR obtained a client state (Cuba) 100 miles from Florida, they thought it would be fair turnabout to also have their own MRBMs in range of America. (ICBMs were not yet available.) When the missiles were discovered in Cuba, the result was that America was outraged, rightly, and we very nearly had a nuclear exchange.
It was not “JFK backed down Khrushchev!” as American media portrayed it. Diplomats and generals on both sides later wrote that we came within a hair-breadth of a full nuclear exchange. In the deal that was worked out, we also (quietly) removed our MRBMs from Turkey. Part of the agreement was that the USSR would not crow about how they forced us to move our missiles out of Turkey.
Today Russia looks at Ukraine, and they see it as the 1942 invasion route of the Nazis, which came very close to cutting off their Caspian oil, which would have caused the rapid collapse and defeat of the USSR. The idea of NATO forces prepositioned across Ukraine, directly on the Russian border, armed with tanks and MRBMs, is a redline they have repeatedly said they could not tolerate.
The Russians think: at least the Germans had to fight their way to Ukraine and and then across it. How much worse to have NATO forces already in Ukraine, poised in striking range with missiles and tanks, ready to nuke Moscow in minutes, and occupy or destroy the Caspian oil fields in days?
We teased Ukraine into believing that if they were compliant with American, EU and NATO desires, they’d eventually join both groups. Instead, Russia was provoked into removing the possibility of NATO forces ever being positioned in Ukraine by their own invasion. This was all entirely foreseeable.
Imagine Khrushchev saying to JFK: “Our Cuban allies requested these armaments to protect them from continued Yankee aggression. So screw you, our missiles will stay in Cuba.” It would have meant nuclear war. This is how dire the Russians consider even the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO as a full partner.
We ignore their perspective at our own peril.
4 posted on 3/1/2022, 10:09:11 AM by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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