Posted on 10/23/2022 10:07:33 AM PDT by dennisw
Boris Bondarev urged a strong response from the West to Putin's threats, he told Sky News. Putin is using the nuclear button to "compel other countries to do whatever he wants," he said.
If a fireball were to hit the city's Mission District, the Golden Gate Bridge would remain standing. In the event of a 15-kiloton blast, 63,000 people in San Francisco could die — but that's the smallest number of any city on this list.
That blast would also miss two of the city's iconic waterside landmarks: the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf.
Golden Gate Bridge would remain standing. That blast would also miss two of the city's iconic waterside landmarks: the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf.
A former Russian diplomat has warned that President Vladimir Putin will sacrifice 10 to 20 million Russian soldiers to win the war in Ukraine.
Speaking to Sky News' Political Editor Beth Rigby, Boris Bondarev said that Putin "understands that if he loses the war with Ukraine, it will be the end of him."
"You should have no doubt about it. He may sacrifice 10 or 20 million Russians just to win this war just to slaughter all Ukrainians because it's a matter of principle. It's a matter of political survival to him."
Bondarev quit Russia's permanent mission at the United Nations in Geneva over the war in May.
The exiled diplomat warned the West against failing to meet Putin's threats head-on.
Responding to a question from Rigby about Biden's cautious responses to Putin, Bondarev said: "When you say that you don't want to provoke a bully, it gives him the wrong signal. It shows him you are afraid of him, and he will escalate further. You must show Putin a clear signal that if he wants escalation, he will get it. "
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Yo, where all them endlessly spammed Ukraine ‘winning’ articles and threads at within FR?
If Putin has 20 million soldiers that puts him way ahead of the United States but I thought Putin was a loser and a failure and gonna die any day now....sarc
Well, well, well… yet another post from the ‘LEAGUE OF GERIATRICS FOR WAR’ lobby.
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA?
Boeing, Lockheed, etc. are elated.
I’m pretty sure if a USA party Democrat said something like that Americans would slaughter every Democrat party member in the USA.
Putin is no different than a Democrat party member.
LOL. "If" is doing a lot of work there. To get 20 million soldiers Putin would literally have to draft every Russian man between 18 and 49 and he still wouldn't have enough after excluding people in poor health. Call me crazy, I don't think that's going to happen.
China has something like 20 million more men than women.
Just sayin’...
Not to excuse the dangerous war hawks in this country, but at some point one needs to realize that Putin is one of them too.
The Leftist progressive ‘pro-Ukraine’ tards are utterly disgusting POS.
They literally went from screaming endless media streams of ‘MAGA Republicans and Canadian truckers are Nazis’!’ to ‘the Azov’s, etc. are A-OK and it is totally fine that we - the media - have to airbrush out all the Nazi tattoos of those showcased Nazis’ we/they keep inviting to Washington, Disney World, tard university campuses, etc........
Let’s hope so.
Yes, China could supply a 20 million man army without much trouble. Russia couldn’t come close to doing that. But I doubt very seriously Xi Jinping wants to send a single Chinese soldier to die in Ukraine.
Putin does not have 20m soldiers.
You miss my point. 20 million Russian women would be fine war brides when China takes an interest in an unmanned Russia.
I read this as “Putin is willing to sacrifice twenty million people” to remain in power.
Like Hitler.
Like neo-Nazi Bandera influenced ZelesnkyyIdiot.
Fixed/Corrected
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