Posted on 09/01/2014 7:29:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Vladimir Putin has boasted to European leaders that his forces could sweep into Kiev in two weeks if he wanted.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Dangerous times.
I gauge the following.
Russia has the largest throw-weight of thermo nuclear warheads and they are of modern design.
Israel has limited throw weigh but the most advanced designs of nuclear weapons..especially smaller battlefield neutron devices.
The US has a large throw weight but quality lags the Russian array of weapons.
MAD still applies though... no one can truly win a major nuclear exchange. The boomers are still especially deadly.
We’re reduced to hoping that Putin’s not crazy enough to launch a nuclear war.
Interesting that facebook blocked this link from being shared on my page.
After invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If." Subsequently neither Philip II nor his son Alexander the Great attempted to capture the city.
But the Romans did.
That spelled the end of Sparta as an independent culture.
Just saying.
So what, Vlad? Then what will you do with it? If the Red Army (redux) couldn’t take Kiev in two days, I wouldn’t brag about it.
Doesn’t matter really who has what. One nuke and the game changes in a heartbeat. Putin’s got balls alright but nukes? He’s not that ballsy. Or stupid.
Yeah, over 200 years later.
He could be diagnosed with cancer in the same time frame.
Ya never know when you might be called home
And of course there is the Seinfeld reference when Kramer and Newman are playing Risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw
Putin is going to start WWIII
If Putin really wanted to take Kiev, he would have done it already. He doesn't really want to. If the EU builds this rapid reaction force, or whatever they're calling it, that could change things significantly.
Kramer told Newman that The Ukraine was weak. Maybe Putin is a Seinfeld fan.
No Russian tank unit defected. It is desperate Uke propaganda.
If Putin says two weeks are needed he is probably able to do it in a week and said two weeks to throw people off.
The Spartans took the hint and never attacked the Macedonians. Sparta by then was much diminished. Thebes pretty much beat them and Phillip learned the art of war when he lived in Thebes as a royal hostage.
Napoleon complex. He’s a little man with a chip on his shoulder because his career in the KGB got cut short. Now, he wants to let his inner KGB schweinehund out to show the world he’s somebody.
Obama and the Putinistas share a dream of America’s enemies succeeding.
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