That’s a BS headline made to scare people. The article boils down to “Russia theoretically has the capabilities to attack, but don’t because they know the West will be angry”.
Given the success of the 3 day invasion I’m sure NATO is terrified.
It’s all fucked.
Russia fucks around until someone deems them worthy of finding out. Sure, it seems fun when U.S. pilots are cranking up the AC/DC and doing their hero walk on the way to wipe every single Russian airbase and fuel depot off the map, but then half of the west’s water systems, electrical grids, and networking infrastructure gets hacked and severely damaged/bricked. Russia gets hacked and grinds to a standstill. China takes advantage of the chaos and invades Taiwan. The U.S. bombs the chip fabs in Taiwan into powder, and anti-satellite operations trigger the Kessler syndrome. Maybe some of the other regional conflicts pop off, too.
The bright side is that assuming no nukes fly, we’ll see earth’s habitability improve for a while, once people starve and consumption/ability to produce goes way down.
Yeah, they’ve proved that to everyone who has succumbed to constant Russian propaganda.
He says in defence of the country which formerly proclaimed to have the second best army in the world, but also
- struggles to complete its three day adventure in Ukraine for more than two years now,
- has to hide its navy,
- lost most of its active aviation, tanks and APCs, and
- (my personal favourite) has to resort sending troops into battle in Chinese golf carts as transport options seem to run.
But the West is a laughing stock.
Dang. Can I get some of the shit you are on?
Funny how they can do that without NATO being involved at all beyond some member states providing weapons and training. The biggest damage NATO has suffered so far is from second hand embarrassment.
The amount of next level bending over Putin have been forced to do for Xi the last two years… and just to destabilize the world… Oh my. The pricetag on that one…
Long after the situation is stabilized, Russia will still be paying to China for the help they got.
I’m half convinced Putin wants NATO to get directly involved so that he can pull out of Ukraine and be like “We didn’t lose to Ukraine, it was the West who once again oppresses poor little Russia”
If that’s what he really wants, then I’m sure it could be arranged and nobody needs to get nuked. But it probably isn’t.
I’m not so sure NATO wants to play directly into Putin’s anti-West narrative.
Also why would anybody get nuked lol
I’m not so sure NATO wants to play directly into Putin’s anti-West narrative.
They might give Putin that in return for his retreat from Ukraine. That would be the “arrangement”. But again, I don’t really believe it.
Also why would anybody get nuked lol
That’s what Putin keeps threatening if NATO gets involved.
I bet that will be his playbook if Joe Biden retains the White House.
If Trump returns to the White House, Putin will get a punch card for every NATO state he annexes—for every sixth country he conquers, he’ll get a genocide “free-pass”.
Russia can’t even succeed against Ukraine. What makes him think he has a chance in hell against the combined power of NATO? Hell, man, I’m pretty sure the USA alone would make quick work of Russia in an all out war.
unless they let loose the whole thermonuclear, biological and chemical warfare…
Russia would be hardest hit though because most of their population is confined to two or three cities. In most of the rest of the world the population is more distributed.
It would be devastating to all sides of course, assuming Russia’s oligarchs haven’t stolen the nukes, but Russia would come off worse. Anyway Putin wants to be in charge he isn’t going to risk getting the entire country destroyed, if only because it’s not fun ruling over a crater riddled radioactive moonscape.
I’ve been saying this for a long while, but Russia’s every move seems to indicate desperation.
