27 Oct 22
But Putin, his defense dude anyway, calls ALL of his western colleagues
telling them UKRAINE is going to launch a 'dirty' bomb, radioactives not a fission device but spreads bad news around like the real thing.
Sure, like Ukraine would bomb themselves but that is what the Russians are saying.
Gee, could this be a setup? Nah, Putin is honest, right? I believe him, don't you?
So maybe he waits till after the US midterm elections are over, wrong way, oops, the Crimea just got hit with a dirty bomb.
Then next?
So anybody here think there is nothing to this threat?
@sonhouse saidIt is gorilla dust, and little else.
But Putin, his defense dude anyway, calls ALL of his western colleagues
telling them UKRAINE is going to launch a 'dirty' bomb, radioactives not a fission device but spreads bad news around like the real thing.
Sure, like Ukraine would bomb themselves but that is what the Russians are saying.
Gee, could this be a setup? Nah, Putin is honest, right? I believe him, don' ...[text shortened]... t got hit with a dirty bomb.
Then next?
So anybody here think there is nothing to this threat?
Putin is in a corner right now, but I do not believe he will risk a nuclear war. Even if he orders a nuclear strike, I very much doubt the military brass will obey that order: The fear of nuclear annihilation will override any fear of a desperate despot.
@soothfast saidBut Putin is all of the things Fetterman is, and more. They are not thinking past themselves. I think Putin would do it just to take us all with him.
It is gorilla dust, and little else.
Putin is in a corner right now, but I do not believe he will risk a nuclear war. Even if he orders a nuclear strike, I very much doubt the military brass will obey that order: The fear of nuclear annihilation will override any fear of a desperate despot.
@metal-brain saidI wouldn't use the term "big bear".
@sonhouse
WW3 is coming because you condone the poking of the big bear. After poking the bear you say I hope the bear doesn't go ballistic on us. Dumb ass.
Putin complains that Russia isn't being respected. The respect is usually forthcoming whenever there is a threat of war and people talk about Russia's nuclear arsenal.
When the threat of war is diminished, then the arsenal isn't that much of an issue.
What is left is a very large country with a GDP smaller than Italy.
Nobody has been poking the big bear except when they realize how small they are.
Russia looks more like a larger version of N Korea than a serious competitor to the US.
Threatening to blow everything up ?? Nah !! Al Qaeda and ISIS do that stuff.
28 Oct 22
@metal-brain saidNo it makes much more sense to shoot the stupid old bear betwix the eyes and get yourself a new rug out of it.
@sonhouse
WW3 is coming because you condone the poking of the big bear. After poking the bear you say I hope the bear doesn't go ballistic on us. Dumb ass.
29 Oct 22
@kevcvs57 saidHowever, history had taught us many lessons about Russia. And one of them is that it’s bloody hard to shoot the bear.
No it makes much more sense to shoot the stupid old bear betwix the eyes and get yourself a new rug out of it.
And that any rug made comes at a high price and is only temporary in nature.
If I were the West, I would be investing in a constructive situation for when Putin “leaves” power.
29 Oct 22
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@shavixmir saidMy comment was very tongue in cheek
However, history had taught us many lessons about Russia. And one of them is that it’s bloody hard to shoot the bear.
And that any rug made comes at a high price and is only temporary in nature.
If I were the West, I would be investing in a constructive situation for when Putin “leaves” power.
Your correct history has taught us many things
One of them is ‘under no circumstances invade Russia’
Another is ‘under no circumstances appease an aggressor’
Napoleon learnt the first one the hard way, Hitler failed to take note and Germany was doomed.
The world forgot the second one in Europe in the 1920s and 30s and the world was doomed to six years of war and other horrors.
Some on here would have us forget the 2nd one again but I think the pro Ukrainian alliance has managed to heed both lessons, if only we had shown this sort of resolve when the NAZIs marched into the Sudetenland, who knows how the 20th century may have panned out.
29 Oct 22
@earl-of-trumps saidIndeed.
I wouldn't trust Vladimir Putin as far as I could throw Vladimir Putin.
He's a nuclear terrorist.