Posted on 02/26/2024 1:07:28 AM PST by canuck_conservative
But upcoming Biden administration and German decisions concerning the deployment of precision deep-strike weapons — namely ATACMS and the Taurus cruise missile — are likely weighing heavily on Putin’s mind, along with the coming introduction of F-16 fighter jets.
Ditto bilateral security guarantees, some signed just days ago, with the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Canada — and Sweden’s and Britain’s announcements last week of additional military assistance.
Europe is not giving up on Ukraine.
Propaganda wins aside, it was a losing week for Putin...
As many as 65 soldiers from Russia’s 39th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade stationed near Trudivske, in the Donetsk region, were killed midweek in a single HIMARS strike on their training area.
And Ukraine can use Western-supplied weapons to hit inside Russia, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters last week: “According to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And it also includes strikes against legitimate military targets, Russian military targets outside of Ukraine.”
Then Friday, Ukraine shot down its second Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft in just over a month.
Ukrainian military sources said they hit the plane — whose cost can run to the hundreds of millions of dollars — between Russian cities Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar.
That’s more than 124 miles from the front line, adding to speculation as to what weapon system was used to take it down...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You don’t say! I’m guessing a. Madman here already knew that and b. you have no sense of the ironic.
Russia has by far the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. And unlike the United States they have been maintaining and modernizing these weapons of mass destruction. This is indisputable and like it or not makes them a “super power” and very dangerous. Russia is headed by a leader whose motives may be questionable but who has his full faculties. For contras, Biden is a demented old corrupt fool who is led around by the nose by whoever his handlers are. You are the one who is ignoring reality and showing off your ignorance.
ESAD fake Tsar.
Poot will go down in the history books as The Grand Idiot Tsar of Russia. Who killed tens of thousands of Russians in Ukraine. All for Poot’s schizo delusions of being a Tsar of old. Ruling over the great Russian Empire of vodka swillers.
Irony? Like invading, murdering, kidnapping peoples of other nations yet claiming to be the victim of...
of...
globohomonaziLGBTQIP
Preying upon the ignorance and gullibility of fickle Western TikTok minds does not provide an excuse for Putin’s invasions.
They are killing each other by the thousands over there. Historic enemies. Let them duke it out. Putin is not going nuclear. My , Lord above, it’s all a game of thrones.
Being a bloodthirsty globalist zeeper, what you're really looking forward to is another year of human beings being shoved into the meat grinder as fuel for another MIC forever proxy war.
Why aren't you looking forward to PEACE TALKS?
BTW, keep your nose in Canada.
Oh yeah, that one is still smarting from having his butt handed to him yesterday. 😂
I see the zeepers are infesting this thread with their typical comments about “Putin worshippers” and other such nonsense.
I honestly don’t think anybody here worships or admires Putin. (Personally, I think Putin is as corrupt as Biden and Zelensky are.) I think there are people here who dislike and disdain the zeepers and justifiably so.
This is a conservative site. Smart people don’t like seeing billions our tax dollars flowing to a known money-laundering operation with no accountability whatsoever. Anybody who can’t see what’s going on here is as dumb as…well, a zeeper.
I think there is a strong case to be made for that. I do agree with your
premise 100%. Peace through strength has stood the test of time.
Putin knows that he is a dead man within minutes of a nuclear launch.
Your scare tactics are foolish.
Putin has a problem in that his weapons might not really work and he can’t guarantee that they will really function.
IMHO, Putin has already won, he has:
- Crimea
- the land bridge to Crimea
- the land bridge flanks
- control of the Sea of Azov
Ukraine - winning - is the ability to manage to hang on to what it has, now.
Ukraine’s notion that a loss of the country is worth throwing everything into “winning over Russia,” is not a worthwhile path.
Russia and Ukraine are going to have to learn to get along - probably a thing for a future generation.
Russia remains a state sponsor of communism, fascism, socialism, terrorism around the world. Because, supporting divisions among:
- other countries
- other cultures, and
- other peoples
. . . is a Russian thing, part of its coercive defense nature - kind of like an unhappy customer of McDonald’s, throwing cups and spoons and napkins all around, thrashing about, raising a ruckus in places, NOT Russia[n].
Russia *is* a bear.
Russia does not want NATO near Russia, but Russia must itself, stay away from NATO . . . yet marching toward NATO (Poland, etc.) is not going to be good for Russia.
Not helping - hot heads:
- Moscow
- Kiyv
- Victoria Nuland (plus Obama, H. Clinton . . .)
- muslim bro (speaking of proxy’s)
- Venezuela, Cuba (puppet states)
- drug cartels (speaking of proxy’s)
IF Russia was really winning, they wouldn’t need this desperate gaslighting campaign full of lies and propaganda
so, the fact that we DO have this Russian gaslighting campaign happening, is confirmation that Russia is actually losing
Russia is both, winning and losing.
It’s a socialist dictatorship thing, win and lose at all costs to everybody but the dictators.
The Putinistas here like to pretend that all real conservatives are OK with Putin invading Ukraine. When reality is that the Putin regime is the same as the Soviet USSR, except with Putin approved oligarchs this time around. One proof is that Putin often mentions Joe Stalin, as being a great Russian. Similar to how Xi pimps Mao Tse Tung.
Would I support new York if they were invaded? That’s a silly question, of course I would, it’s part of the country, as for Ukraine, there not in NATO, they are a money laundering machine, Britain is in NATO.
I’m talking about the COLD WAR. During that time, we knew our limits and the Soviets responded in kind. It would have been VERY EASY to do the kind of crap we are doing in Ukraine, but we DID NOT.
Now all bets are off, and if we’re lucky, very lucky, only Ukraine will be destroyed by the IDIOTS running the West.
And Now, you too can join the fight.
Paid for by the uniparty (Disclaimer: don't expect them to join you in the fight)
I’ve been hearing about HIGHLY SKILLED Americans (or at least Westerners) who signed up to serve under Ukrainian command and were promptly dispatched to trenches on the Front Line, most likely to get a taste of Russian FABs or 152’s. Not quite as much fun as their dream of ‘killing Commies’.
This is a fine answer. We, in the U.S., defend each other. Job #1 of a country is to defend its people.
As for Great Britain, same answer. We’re in a mutual defense agreement, reinforced by decades of us standing soldier to soldier. Plus, the U.K. meets its NATO obligation of spending of 2 percent on GDP.
As for Ukraine, I agree with you. It’s not the same thing. They’re not in NATO. Our support for them is based on pragmatic considerations. We might do for them what we did for Hungary in 1956, or Czechoslovakia in 1968. Russia’s invasions of those countries and of Ukraine were or are wrong, but we’re under no moral obligation to support them.
Yes, we made some assurances to Ukraine to induce that country to give up nuclear weapons, but Russia hasn’t used nuclear weapons on them.
The first part of your sentence is a valid statement: Not only is it in our own geopolitical interest to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion (Russia needs to be shown the folly of its ways and deterred from further aggression) - we are also under a moral imperative to make good on our assurances under the Budapest Memorandum.
The second part of your sentence is an unnecessary add-on which only clouds the issue / unnecessarily expands the topic at hand; Putin's use/non-use of nukes is not at all contingent upon the assurances we gave (or vice-versa).
Regards,
Not my scare tactics... just the facts. The games that the Biden administration, and the motley crew of Eurotrash and Neocon idiots have been playing with the Russians is what is foolish to the umpteenth degree. Again, they have the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world. There is no guarantee that Putin would be dead within minutes of a nuclear strike, and in fact they are far more prepared for this contingency than we are.
This botched foreign policy has cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides along with the waste of $Hundreds of Billions of taxpayer dollars, not to mention the rise of BRICS which has now surpassed G7 in total GDP. This is one of the primary reason "economic sanctions" imposed on Russia have been ineffective. And the US dollar is rapidly loosing its position as the reserve currency of the world. If you are too foolish to recognize how much this folly is really costing us then I pity you.
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