Posted on 04/28/2022 8:15:57 PM PDT by Lazamataz
4/28: America approves a "Lend Lease" program with Ukraine. Ukraine will receive NATO equipment en-masse.
5/12: An artillery barrage from Russian forces in the Ukraine kills 17 Americans, who were sent to train the Ukrainians on our equipment.
5/30: Russians target NATO transports coming from Belarus with effective artillery. 45 dead, 17 trucks destroyed.
6/17: Second attempt by Russia to destroy Belarussian transports. Firefight ensues. Russian and American troops are now in direct conflict. Counter-battery NATO artillery is fired, with shelling occurring directly into Russia.
7/15: Russia stops ALL oil and gas exports.
7/17: America, having already sent 50,000 troops to Belarus and Poland, increases the troop count to 150,000.
7/30: Russia states that, because NATO is sending war material to Ukraine, that any contact with American NATO will result in combat.
8/6: Russian agents assassinate Zelensky.
8/10: Russia commits a full 50 percent of its military to more Ukrainian invasion. Firefights with NATO troops are becoming more common, even in the Ukraine, but mostly on the border with Belarus.
8/15: NATO incursions into Russia are becoming more commonplace, strategic targets are being hit.
8/27: Russia deploys chemical weapons against NATO troops.
9/2: NATO responds in kind.
10/10: NATO forces come into Ukraine in large numbers.
10/17: Russia fires a tactical nuclear weapon at NATO forces, killing and injuring 2302 troops. Within hours, NATO fires a tactical nuke at Russian forces. The number of casualties is unknown.
10/18: American Strategic Nuclear forces are at DEFCON 2, as are Russian ones.
After this, the timeline becomes more unclear. On or about 10/30, there were a series of strategic nuclear exchanges between Russia, America, and China, resulting in approximately 1.5 billion dead and wounded worldwide. EMP has destroyed about a third of the world's electronics. The worldwide economy stops outright. Starvation, residual radiation, and regional conflict claims another 2 billion lives in the next two years.
If the Russians were going to nuke us, I think it’ll be much quicker than this.
Alternate:
Following days of raucous debate over the ongoing distractions, you have a good night’s sleep.
You awake to silence, or someone telling you the power’s out.
No electricity, no phone, no internet, no radio.
If you’re lucky (or smart), you’re away from population centers which will see starving masses within 5 days.
For most, it’s about this time the thought occurs about the needs most taken for granted: Food, water, security, information.
And you thought COVID was frightening...
Look away, beyond the blue...
Keep your powder dry and your long range walkie talkies charged.
Oh, and your pantry well stocked.
I will sleep well tonight. Your crack-cocaine imagination gave me a good laugh.
Got to brush up on my skills.
Thanks. Not sure where I heard it but I heard, incorrectly, that we (NATO) deployed there.
Oh..OK..LOL.
Sweet dreams.
That is OK Laz. We all have our moments.
There will come a time when the US must have Russian oil, and Russia will specify a price for it that cannot be printed by the Fed. They will demand disarmament.
THAT would be the hill to die on. 1.5 Billion is pretty light, actually. You hit refineries and ports and starvation kills more than radiation. Yes, that is the hill to die on.
Not a country 8000 miles away that essentially no one in the US cared about 6 months ago. Mostly what is going on is the DNC commissioned a poll asking how they can reduce damage in the Mid terms. The answer was . . . get the virus off the front page. They jumped on this opportune story.
Yup. You are correct. Substitute any of the other, more NATO-oriented, countries in that region.
A lot of arguments, but no turkey or taters.
America no longer has any deployable chemical weapons.
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But I love you!
Of course this is idiotic!
For once, Belarus is, somewhat reluctant, Russian ally.
So all Belarus references here are by definition wrong!
Anyway, the Ukrainians are fighting for everybody else and deserve all the help they can get!
Where else would you draw the red line to stop Russian expansion?
On the rim of the Appalachians?
America may not, but a NATO-member may....
To my mind, this is a necessary outgrowth of the upcoming war. Propaganda must be tightly-controlled in a wartime footing.
"It worked!"
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