Putin threatens to go nuclear — because his military is suffering badly in Ukraine

New York Post ^ | Feb. 25, 2024 | Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth

[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...

[canuck_conservative]

Always enjoyable to see an illegal invasion failing ... that Russian Victory Parade just keeps receding into the distance, guess we'll never see it now

That's why so many pro-Putin people here are so upset these days

And more to come!

[Right_Wing_Madman]

That's why so many pro-Putin people here are so upset these days

Globalist champion The Globe and Mail, from your own Demented Dominion, is worried and upset, and I couldn't be happier about it:

Zelensky acknowledges Ukraine is losing ground as Russian invasion enters third year, Western support slows
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-zelensky-ground-invasion-deaths/#:~:text=Ukrainian%20President%20Volodymyr%20Zelensky%20acknowledged,of%20U.S.%20military%20aid%20resumes.

[StolarStorm]

Is it ok to be anti-Putin and Anti - Corrupt as hell Ukraine as well? A pox on both their houses. I support neither.

[canuck_conservative]

Wouldn’t be in Year Three unless Russia was stupid and incompetent

Looking forward to another year of Russia failing!

:)

[Firehath]

Is this a rerun of ww2

Hitler empire nato

Gog cancer dem usa

MaGog cancer dem nato

Rev 13

Canut_gay_transervitive

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Looking forward to another year of Russia failing!

Zelensky and General Syrsky should withdrawal their deteriorating army to the Dnieper, but it looks like the UAF will foolishly try to hold the line in Donetsk, where the Russians have complete aerial dominance.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I find it a miracle that some of our money is actually going toward the war effort, instead of Ukrainian pensions, etc.

Putin’s a sociopath, and Zelensky’s a corrupt dictator. I don’t like either of them.

[Rockingham]

Putin is surrounded by yes men and flatterers promising victory and thus has a weak grasp of events and circumstances in Ukraine.

[Justa]

Did your great grandparents not “like” Petan or Churchill as well? Lend Lease all about corruption and waste of US taxpayer money?

It is not “warmongering” to defend against an invasion which is intent upon conquering and eliminating a nation.

The true warmongers are the Russian nationalists and their gullible dupes who come on this board posting support for Russian military expansionism. “Oh, Putin just said he’s for family values” [so it’s ok for him to destroy cities and kidnap civilians].

[JonPreston]

It’s probably a good idea for NATO to stop provoking Ruzzia.

[Altura Ct.]

because his military is suffering badly in Ukraine

That's debatable. What a mess we are in. Our nation has put us in a position to where you either support an old enemy or a corrupt money funneling machine. Not to mention inching us further into a global war. How about neither?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Did your great grandparents not “like” Petan or Churchill as well?

Did you know Churchill was allied with the evil Ruzzians and he supported their invasion of Europe?

It is not “warmongering” to defend against an invasion which is intent upon conquering and eliminating a nation.

Like when the United States invaded Italy in 1943 and overthrew its government in 1944? Are all invasions bad, or are some okay if you judge and approve beforehand?

[saturn]

I couldn’t agree more, we have no business being involved in that war, that’s up to Europe. And I support neither Russian or Ukraine.

[sam_whiskey]

It seems to me that there is a significant difference between opposing funding for Ukraine and actively rooting for Putin to succeed. I understand the rationale behind the former position but not the latter. Way too many people here who claim to be patriots and conservatives are in the latter group.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not happy to see Russian citizens die in the Ukraine.

I’m not happy to see the Ukrainians die in defense of their
nation either, but then that’s their choice, and I do not
blame them.

This has been a tragic mess since day one.

Now it looks as if Moldova has seen part of it’s land
annexed by Russia also. I believe Russia has already
moved on that, but I may be wrong. Read a blurb on it
the other day.

I don’t think either side is pristine here. The
Russians have some valid complaints. The Ukraine has
many more.

This was poorly thought out by Russia, even if it wasn’t
happy about how things were going.

The death and destruction so far is distressing to say
the least, the deaths on both sides.

[sam_whiskey]

Italy in 1943? Really? Boy, you done caught that left-wing virus where you lose your ability to make any moral distinctions. Even the obvious ones…

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Boy, you done caught that left-wing virus where you lose your ability to make any moral distinctions.

Correction: you can make moral distinctions, but others cannot. This is why wars happen.

Pope Pius XII did not think the US invasion of Italy was moral or justified. On June 2, 1944, with the US Army nearing Rome, he declared on the radio: "Whosoever raises his hand against Rome will be guilty of matricide before the civilized world and the eternal judgment of God.”

[Justa]

“Like when the United States invaded Italy in 1943 and overthrew its government in 1944? Are all invasions bad, or are some okay if you judge and approve beforehand?”

Lol. You’re really going to try and pimp that on the forum?

A relevant foray into your Whataboutism diversion:

-Italy was a fascist, militaristic, imperial government which not only was allied with GE but was invading north and eastern Africa, conquering nations in pursuit of reestablishing the Pax Romana empire.

Mussolini’s actions are very similar to Putin invading and conquering nations of the former Soviet Union CCCP empire. So, yes, the precedent is there to invade and overthrow Putin’s Russia with NATO et al to end the madman’s belligerence. The Cyrillic Saddam is a pox on civilization and peoples.

[Redmen4ever]

“It’s probably a good idea for NATO to stop provoking Ruzzia.”

Like when the CIA moved the ground so as to make it look like Russian tanks were rolling into Ukraine.

Or when CIA operatives dressed up as Russian troops to invade Georgia.

Or when actors from Hollywood pretend to be Russians invading Czechoslovakia.

Or when the homoglobalists rewrote the history books to teach school children in the west that Russia invaded Hungary.

[roving]

From the Russian lovers here, I don’t think any Russians soldiers have been killed. They are the best military in the world. They don’t even get injured.