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Russian Options in Ukraine: Are Nuclear Weapons Under Consideration?
Geopolitical Futures ^ | 09/20/2022 | George Friedman

Posted on 09/22/2022 9:36:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/22/2022 9:36:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Not our circus. Not our monkeys.


2 posted on 09/22/2022 9:41:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Since following the events in Ukraine, it seems the West has pushed the Russia/Nukes scenario. Biden said months ago the US would not take nukes off the table.

Waiting for a false flag like those we saw in Syria.


3 posted on 09/22/2022 9:46:45 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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False Fag Incoming! duck...

4 posted on 09/22/2022 9:59:57 PM PDT by Bobalu (This Republic is designed for a wholly moral and religious people. It will not work with any other.)
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To: BenLurkin

Our guys are the impressarios of this circus and have put their monkeys on our payroll.


5 posted on 09/22/2022 10:02:30 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SeekAndFind

Rssia-Ukraine war: The western threat of nuclear annihilation’

“It was back in February that the West began to threaten Russia with nuclear war in response to a statement given by President Vladimir Putin. ...”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-western-threat-nuclear-annihilation


6 posted on 09/22/2022 10:03:24 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: SeekAndFind
Russia considering nukes on a rag tag Ukraine coupled with dragging bodies kicking and screaming, forcing them to fight, demonstrates to the world their military weakness not their strength.

At the rate they're going, if they did try a nuke it just might blow up in their faces.

7 posted on 09/22/2022 10:04:59 PM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: sockmonkey
Memories of the Cuban missile crisis in view ....though this is worse.
8 posted on 09/22/2022 10:06:18 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: sockmonkey

Why would the US take nukes off the table when Russia threatens them as a matter of course? Heck, Putin did so at a nuclear disarmament(?) conference shortly B4 this war started. The link to the vid was posted here on FR by a Pooty supporter.


9 posted on 09/22/2022 10:07:55 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Bobalu

Is this fag related to soros?


10 posted on 09/22/2022 10:07:57 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Paul R.

Find Ze’s speech in Munich. He threatened Russia with nukes before it has all started. Then the French FM talked about nukes and you probably heard what Ben Hodges was talking. Putin is clearly defensive on this one.


11 posted on 09/22/2022 10:13:30 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: sockmonkey

Did you read Putin’s speech this week? He explicitly talks about Nukes. No need to hate on “the West,” Putin lays out his nuclear threats plainly.


12 posted on 09/22/2022 10:13:48 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Captainpaintball

Soros is from Hungary. Are you slow?


13 posted on 09/22/2022 10:15:20 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Russia sent one nuke into Washington DC.
Would the rest of the nation give a crap?

I wouldn’t care, in fact my attitude would be:

Good bye, you democrat parasites and good riddance.

“Washington DC Delenda Est.”


14 posted on 09/22/2022 10:25:39 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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Putins preemptive nuclear doctrine threat is on the table.

As well, tactical nuclear artillery is reasonably m.j ot an option in close frontline combat, as it could cause losses to Russia’s own side.

As well, Russian doctrine also fully utilizes the “civilian as weapon”, in a strategy of forcing complete collapse of all societal function. This is also a Russian tried and true method from at least three recent conflicts, and has already been widely utilized across Ukraine.

As such, it is almost unlikely Putin would not use at least lower dialed strategic nuclear weapons.

As well, Russia has at least 3 new Chemical Weapons Brigades since 2012, with arguably the most advanced CW weapons distribution platforms in the world.

Russia already had the world’s most active and tangible Bio Weapons program in the world, but Putin ordered the continued development and significant increase in budget allocation for Bio Weapons as one of his first “formal” orders after being appointed President by Yeltsin in 1999. Of course that was just ahead of the New Years/Russian Orthodox break, so after January 7th of 2000. This is a very real threat as well, but much less likely to be used in Ukraine, as a number of those weapons don’t have reliably working anecdotes

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In late March 30/31, 2022, Russia flew two Sukhoi 24 bombers armed with nuclear missiles, with two Sukhoi 27 fighter escorts over Finish and Swedish airspace.

As these were intercepted by Swedish JAS-39’s, the SU-24’s rolled so the Swedish fighter pilots and cameras could photo the nuclear missiles.

Off and on in 2019, 2020, and heavier in 2021 Russian nuclear subs encircled Britain. The following is only a piece referencing 2021, as for about 5 years, the Royal Navy sought hard to keep a lid on the information -

https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampprojereferct.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2021/05/23/russian-submarines-are-constantly-circling-britains-entire-coastline-14630396/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16639097196623&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fmetro.co.uk%2F2021%2F05%2F23%2Frussian-submarines-are-constantly-circling-britains-entire-coastline-14630396%2F

In January 2022, Russia held a 140+ ship naval exercise off the coast of Ireland, but then a number of ships and nuclear subs were reported to British Parliament to be loitering all the way around Britain, coastal France, and “in the pocket” between Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Baltics.

Simultaneously, Russia held a 144 ship and sub exercise stretching from coastal Oman and Gulf of Aden, to right up next to US Navy Base Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. Just before reaching Lemonnier, China’s Navy joined the then joint exercise which went right up the Red Sea to one of Russia’s refurbished naval facilities opposite Yemen, where they have really been supplying weapons to the Houthi and Iranian backed Rebels attacking SA, with the goal of destroying Saudi and UAE energy lines to Israel and Europe.

Off and in since Bill Clinton, but steady under Obama, the up to 11 Russian nuclear subs, which are associated with the Russian nuclear battlecruiser “Peter the Great” (which calls the Venezuelan island of La Orchila home, routinely travel or loiter within approximately 1500 NM from “Peter the Great”. Sub locations are regular between Bermuda and Newfundland and Labrador, but also occasionally test Bill Clinton’s 12 NM territorial boundaries of the US East Coast. It happened under Clinton, and Obama multiple times, but over the past two years, these incidents are almost routine, and stretch from Texas to Maine, with the occasional stop in Cuba. There is also overlap utilizing the Chinese controlled Panama Canal, between Russia’s Pacific and Atlantic hybrid nuclear battle group’s.

There is a whole lot more, including a highly nuclear weaponized Kaliningrad, and Philippine area, but enough for now.

No one wants this, but nuclear blackmail, utilizing a known weak US fraud president, and utilizing fearful trembling populations, is obviously the new toy by a leftist fascist to move his border.


15 posted on 09/22/2022 10:45:56 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Russians, unlike Joe’s folks, will not tell you exactly what they plan to do.

Winter is coming and that’s prime Russian fighting weather.

I think Putin plans a massive push with experienced troops, with the 300,000 new draftees expected to hold the existing lines.

The Russians tend to be conservative. They might talk nuclear, but talk isn’t walk.


16 posted on 09/22/2022 11:00:18 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

He is not calling draftees but reserves.


17 posted on 09/22/2022 11:03:17 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: SeekAndFind
They are built for tactical effect, not strategic effect. Strategic nuclear weapons, such as the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [...]

Despite his attempts, the author does not make it absolutely clear what constitutes a "strategic" as opposed to "tactical" nuclear weapon.

The Uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the Plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki both had explosive yields of approx. 12-15 kilotons - certainly not what would today be categorized as "strategic."

The author should clearly spell out the criteria for categorizing a nuclear device as "strategic" vs. "tactical." Is it the explosive yield, alone? Or does it depend upon the given use (e.g., on the battlefield vs. against cities)?

Regards,

18 posted on 09/22/2022 11:03:31 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Zelenskyy is a good one to do the threatening. He’s acting like the United States is his own personal bodyguard, trained to do his bidding.
I say phooey to that. I have been on Ukraine’s side from the beginning, but all the money we’ve given him and all the military stuff we’ve sent over there isn’t getting it done. My patience is wearing thin.

Putin threatens to use nukes, mr.Z threatens Russia, with OUR weapons which he does NOT control, and we have Mr. Crazy Putin potentially with his finger on the trigger and Mr. Crazy Biden with HIS finger possibly getting itchy, and the Z-Man goading them both on.

China is staying out and hoping for a peaceful solution.

Crazy times we live in.

I’m going to bed. Got to pick up my Brother-in-Law (Democrat) in the morning and take him out for breakfast. He has Parkinson’s, and I don’t really mind doing it since he can’t get around by himself anymore.
I just hope he doesn’t start talking politics, especially before we’ve had coffee.


19 posted on 09/22/2022 11:12:55 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Putin, Prigoshin, and Kadyriv all need to be taken out . Anyone within the Russian security apparatus that can do this, all on the same day , could go a long way to restoring Russia’s honor, prestige , as and influence in the world . If Russians just stand by , like Germans did in the ‘30s , they will eventually see their entire society, country, and culture destroyed . This should happen, the sooner the better . Enough of this stupid war already . Drop the war monger’s dicks in the dirt.


20 posted on 09/23/2022 1:17:12 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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