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Zelensky calls Putin nuclear threat a 'bluff'
The hill ^ | 03/09/2022 | Caroline Vakil

Posted on 03/09/2022 5:36:31 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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1 posted on 03/09/2022 5:36:31 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If he’s wrong he’ll be among the first to know.


2 posted on 03/09/2022 5:39:41 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Depends on where the bomb lands.


3 posted on 03/09/2022 5:39:57 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t poke the bear, Zel. You don’t know how berserk he can be.


4 posted on 03/09/2022 5:40:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our young Mr Churchill has a screw loose


5 posted on 03/09/2022 5:41:12 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t take Vlad as the kind of guy to bluff, myself.


6 posted on 03/09/2022 5:41:51 PM PST by OKSooner (Defend America first. Let the Limeys and the Frogs and the Krauts take care of Europe.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

it certainly is a bluff.

The Russian army is in a precarious position as it is. Putin’s generals don’t want a fight with Nato, with 90% of their army tied up in Ukraine.

They would have to consider Lindsay Graham’s advice before they’d find themselves in a nuclear exchange.


7 posted on 03/09/2022 5:42:27 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We should have our people involved directly, but giving Ukraine weapons of all kinds is OK. Biden is a coward, which we already knew.


8 posted on 03/09/2022 5:43:41 PM PST by devere
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To: Magic Fingers

“If he’s wrong he’ll be among the first to know.”

Naa, it will be the US or Western Europe. Putin wants to keep Ukraine intact, but doesn’t care about the people who treat him like crap.


9 posted on 03/09/2022 5:45:01 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Williams

“it certainly is a bluff.”

Explains a lot here.


10 posted on 03/09/2022 5:45:42 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Zelensky is fast becoming a stand up comic.


11 posted on 03/09/2022 5:45:47 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Contempt is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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As a relative of Holocaust survivors, I am shocked Zelensky can be so cavalier about the risk of a nuclear conflict.

He should know that Hilter wanted to burn down all of Germany for losing before taking his own life, and any psychopath such as Putin is no different.

12 posted on 03/09/2022 5:45:53 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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It is a bluff. But we’re still not going to fight in that regional war until he establishes what vital national security interest it is to these folks here 5000 miles away he is trying to pull into it for his benefit.


13 posted on 03/09/2022 5:46:26 PM PST by chuckee ( )
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Well, so much for any respect I had for Zelenskyy... this guy is a little boy who was convinced to fight a full grown man. When I was young I made that mistake once and it almost got me killed...


14 posted on 03/09/2022 5:50:48 PM PST by WinstonSmith1984 (The DOJ is a far left militia.)
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What makes anyone think he knows?


15 posted on 03/09/2022 5:51:13 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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“It is a bluff.”

I don’t see Putin in a hurry to use them, as he has many other options, such as moving on Western Europe first, particularly the idiotic countries that joined NATO but essentially don’t have a military, nor anymore than a handful of NATO troops on their soil.

At that point, I would expect the West to use nukes...and they will almost certainly regret the result, as the Russians have big bombs, REALLY BIG bombs.


16 posted on 03/09/2022 5:51:42 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: SecondAmendment

His country is being destroyed. The West fears a fight with Russia, regardless of whether it’s nuclear or conventional.
Of course Zelensky is going to argue that the West should come to his aid.
He didn’t say he wanted a nuclear war, he said it won’t happen.

I don’t happen to think a no fly zone makes sense. You might as well interdict the Russian forces directly if you’re going to threaten to shoot them down.

The best we can do is get a lot of ammo and equipment to the Ukrainians, and a few operatives in country.

Biden blew the chance to give the Russians pause before they invaded.


17 posted on 03/09/2022 5:55:26 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Watch the movie Threads... one of the most depressing movies ever. The start of the conflict leading to all out nuclear war was Soviet incursion into Iran. The conflict just steadily escalated over a period of months until they exchange a few demonstration nukes back and forth, then the all out exchange. That makes everyone either dead or wishing they dead.


18 posted on 03/09/2022 6:01:05 PM PST by Tipllub
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Zelensky needs to shut UP. Do not poke a rabid bear.


19 posted on 03/09/2022 6:04:03 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle Mom)
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Pootie probably should nuke Ukraine. It would be more humane to melt the citizens there instead of just maiming them and causing suffering. There would be no more backlash from the world community than there is now. It's a good thing that we have the peace keeping (UN, NATO, EU) organizations looking into the resistance that the Ukrainian citizens are presenting to the mostly peaceful Russian activities. /s

Sad, so very very sad.

20 posted on 03/09/2022 6:08:37 PM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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