Posted on 04/16/2022 6:08:30 PM PDT by blam
Russian state television declared Friday night that its conflict in Ukraine can now "safely be called World War III."
"What it's escalated into can safely be called World War III – that's entirely for sure," Russia 1 television host Olga Skabeyeva said, according to a translation of Friday night’s broadcast by Britain's Metro News. "Now we're definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure, if not NATO itself. We need to recognize that."
The remarks on the Russian state sponsored station come a day after Russia's flagship, the Moskva, sank in the Black Sea on Thursday.
While the Russians claim the sinking was the result of an onboard fire that accidentally broke out, U.S. officials confirmed to The New York Times that two Ukrainian Neptune missiles struck the vessel, seen as the pride of the Russian fleet, killing an unknown number of sailors, and sending the vessel to the bottom of the Black Sea.
According to the Times, the Moskva was positioned off the Ukrainian coast and was used to send rockets into Ukrainian cities, hitting apartment buildings and other targets.
Retired military officers told the Times the sinking was a "bold" counterattack and the ship's powerful missile platform is impossible to replace, making it a "grave blow" to Russia’s fleet.
"It was a very impressive ship," retired Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, the director of the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington told the Times. "With those surface-to-surface missile launchers, she really looks dangerous. But apparently, she can't take a punch."
Metro News reported Russia launched rockets into the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv overnight, which might be a form of revenge by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
One of the guests on the Russia 1 broadcast compared the sinking of the Moskva to an attack on Russian soil
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This is just the news person’s opinion. Nothing formal has been said about WW3 has started.
Looking back at the Soviet’s role in almost every war since the end of WWII, this could be considered, more accurately, WW7...
Pootie-Poot shoulda just adopted English as the national language and fully joined the West when is had the chance.
Invading Ukraine just confirms him as Joseph Stolen 2.0.
Now he has to learn all sorts of Chinese dialects.
WW3 is ON when China invades Taiwan.
I guess the Russians cherished the Moskva like the British cherished the HMS Hood.
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Th Hood was but ~21 when it went down.
The Moscow was ~40, though upgraded a couple of times, but tech is evolving crazy fast these days.
Agreed.
WW3 is a choreographed affair.
Looks ATM that things are being parsed out serially.
Any political/diplomatic/military outrage is pre-planned and staged. If serial, Ukraine can die down, making room in the MSM headlines for the cuing-up of China/Taiwan.
One could throw in Operation London Bridge somewhere in there too (death of the Queen).
“One of the guests on the Russia 1 broadcast compared the sinking of the Moskva to an attack on Russian soil”
The Ukes are somehow not allowed to invade Russia?
30 seconds over the Kremlin with UAVs.....
Sleepy Joe is gonna get us nuked
That’s Russia ‘s frigging problem. They launched this war, screwed up, and now they want to threaten everyone else.
I believe the missiles used on the ship were Ukrainian.
We need a US President who can plausibly threaten Putin. That would be Trump, and we don’t have him right now.
the sinking was a "bold" counterattack and the ship's powerful missile platform is impossible to replace, making it a "grave blow" to Russia’s fleet.
Considering how things are going, Russia might consider shutting up about WWIII as pretty good next move.
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You might be on to something...at least the way things appear to be going... too early to tell. The truth of what is going on has yet to reveal itself.
Be sure to wipe up after that wargasm.
NATO GDP = $43 Trillion (U.S. is half of that)
Russia GDP = 1.6 Trillion (with new sanctions this figure could get cut in half)
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Mr. Putin, your soldiers, sailors and officers are dummies, your military equipment is junk, your food to give your soldiers is twenty years old and you’ve got no money. Give it up!
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