Posted on 10/19/2022 6:05:10 AM PDT by dennisw
Putin evacuates 60,000 people before Battle of Kherson
Vladimir Putin declared martial law in occupied Ukraine, handing him sweeping new powers over civilians Comes after officials ordered evacuation from occupied Kherson, as Ukraine's forces push to re-take city
If Putin's army is forced to flee the city, it would be the most humiliating defeat it has yet suffered in Ukraine Fears are growing that Putin may be plotting a nuclear show of force over the Black Sea to save his invasion
Experts believe Putin may detonate a nuke at a remote testing ground or above the Black Sea to prove that Russia's huge but ageing stockpile of warheads still works.
Speculation has been growing that Putin could be preparing some kind of nuclear show of force, potentially including the first open-air detonation of an atomic weapon since the 1960s, which ramped up after UK defence secretary Ben Wallace was summoned to last-minute talks at the Pentagon yesterday.
Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine as officials begin evacuating civilians from the city of Kherson, with a battle for control of the stronghold now looming.
Putin said the order will come into effect from midnight tonight in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions - giving him sweeping powers to curtail the freedoms of civilians, repurpose industries and potentially press-gang Ukrainians into his army to fight against their fellow countrymen.
The order also affects occupied Crimea and Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov, all of which are on Russia's own territory bordering Ukraine, though stops short of full martial law in these areas.
Putin made the announcement shortly after Sergei Surovikin, Russia's new commander, said the situation in Kherson is 'tense'.
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“So if a nuke goes off as a false flag, the West will be mentally primed to believe it HAD to be crazy Putin.”
Stop lying for Putin.
Putin: “To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries, and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal,” Putin said in a Wednesday address.”
Does Russia not have nuclear weapons? “All the means at our disposal” obviously includes nuclear weapons.
Stop lying for Putin.
Detonating a nuke over the Black Sea would just be theater. I don’t think there is anyone on the planet that doesn’t know Russia has nukes, and that at least some of them work. This is just posturing, and is perhaps intended more for home consumption than wide appeal.
US and Brit Intel now are feeding these alarmist “ Putin nuc” reports by anonymous “ experts” to the popular media on a daily basis. It would be amusing to observe if this escalatory nuc doom porn was being run by some clown country …but it’s not. Which makes It dangerous.
Come get some, NATO.
“When the Rooskie nukes go off, FReepers will stop complaining about their IRAs going down 25-33%.”
LOL!!! Indeed.
Also, it will give the climate change freaks something REAL to obsess over.
NUKES, NUKES, NUKES!
It sounds like there are some FReepers who really do want this. (I know you’re not one of them.) It’s ghoulish.
"But what is important, I once again appeal to the international community, as I did before February 24—we need preventative strikes, so that they'll know what will happen to them if they use nukes, and not the other way around," he said.(Zelensky)
They really are flailing about like a drowning, dangerous person.
They never figured their bullying wouldn’t work with Putin like so many others and are desperate. Losing total control of the outcome of their war on Russia was never considered.
I understand it for what it is: the last agonal breaths of a dying empire.
Putin could easily end this by withdrawing from Ukraine. By not withdrawing, he doesn’t appear to have any interest in avoiding a nuclear war.
Neither side is a good guy. Both Ukraine AND Russia are hyper corrupt oligarchies. The only difference between them is the scale of their corruption.
I hope both sides lose.
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Link to article from meme above:
https://www.newsweek.com/neocons-woke-left-are-joining-hands-leading-us-woke-war-iii-opinion-1748947
I’m not sure exactly how I’d feel if NYC, DC, SF, LA, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle were nuked off the map.
One could argue it’d be a net gain for the US.
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Experts at making up panic porn? I could believe that.
Never got an answer; do you have any idea of how many times you’ve posted that same image?
“ I saw the writing on the wall when Biden was selected. Cashed everything out and invested in Brazil. They still have Bolsonaro in office and conservatives have a majority bloc in the parliament. Even if the corrupt “commie” wins the corporations are still in charge. I’m also in Thailand investment. Our diversity is our strength.”
How’s that currency exchange treating you?
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