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Russia warns Britain it could strike back after Cameron remark on Ukraine
REUTERS ^ | May 6, 2024 | Guy Faulconbridge and Muvija M

Posted on 05/06/2024 9:01:05 PM PDT by McGruff

Russia warned Britain on Monday that if British weapons were used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory then Moscow could hit back at British military installations and equipment both inside Ukraine and elsewhere.

Russia said British Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the foreign ministry for a formal protest after Foreign Secretary David Cameron said last week that Ukraine had the right to use British weapons to strike Russia.

Russia's foreign ministry said the Cameron remarks recognised that Britain was now de facto a part of the conflict and contradicted an earlier assurance that long-range weapons given to Ukraine would not be used against Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom; War
KEYWORDS: bidenswar; britishwarcrimes; defundnato; escalation; greatgame; killkillkillforpeace; mic; ukhidesbehindus; ukraine; undeclaredwar; welfarewar; whatconstitution; worldwariii; ww3
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1 posted on 05/06/2024 9:01:05 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Stuff it Poutine. We aren’t scared of WWIII because you would never dare nuke us because we will end your world and call your bluff because you know as well as we do that you don’t have real nukes like we do.


2 posted on 05/06/2024 9:09:05 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: McGruff

If so, Britain will have to invade Russia with the two men and eight drag queens that comprise its current army.


3 posted on 05/06/2024 9:13:50 PM PDT by laconic
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To: AndyJackson

You tell ‘em tough guy!


4 posted on 05/06/2024 9:23:29 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
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To: Right Brother

Just like a warmongering Zeeper.


5 posted on 05/06/2024 9:25:01 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson; Right Brother

I figured that he had an implied /s tag there 🤣


6 posted on 05/06/2024 9:31:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

If Andy is not a zeeper, he sure does a great job emulating one. His sarcasm sounds too spot on.


7 posted on 05/06/2024 9:35:22 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
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To: McGruff

Cameron needs to return to the dignity of apolitical retired life.


8 posted on 05/06/2024 9:42:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: McGruff

The willful stupidity of the west regarding this war is certainly in keeping with the times we live in.


9 posted on 05/06/2024 9:42:48 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: Right Brother; SaveFerris; AndyJackson
If Andy is not a zeeper, he sure does a great job emulating one.

He's not a zeeper, he's a comedian -- and a skilled one. I have the receipt.
10 posted on 05/06/2024 9:50:23 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: AndyJackson

You’re either drunk or not too bright.....or both.
You’re a “Hold my beer” type.


11 posted on 05/06/2024 9:50:36 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: McGruff

Hilarious.

Last night I got Russia stopped meddling in our country after 100 and some odd years just because.......and the commies and Marxists destroying the nation are just leftist radicals.

Tonight, I get to LOL at the guy who would be hard pressed to take out pita and hummus stands issuing threats.

I know this is over without the extra $1,000,000,000,000 from climatescam fuel prices when Pres Trump’s drill,drill,drill hits but the comedy will surely be missed.


12 posted on 05/06/2024 9:52:53 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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To: AndyJackson
"like we do?"

Are you British?

13 posted on 05/06/2024 9:54:35 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: McGruff

It’s kind of a pickle. Say a Brit base or building gets hit with a hypersonic. Ok, NATO would declare war.

So then what? 75k regulars in the UK. Reserves and all, 110k. No strategic bombers. No Navy anymore. 213 Challenger Tanks. They gonna attack Russia? If they drag in the Germans and Dutch, Poles and US? Think the public here would stand for the US woke army on the eastern front?

And here’s the kicker if the DC/London axis gets the conventional war the fantasize about. If everything goes well, and they are pushing towards Moscow and the Russian Army is crumbling.... THAT is a guarantee that the ICBMs will fly and DC and London will be gone.

This whole thing is crazy.


14 posted on 05/06/2024 9:55:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. and hopes they could forc)
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Have you ever been to Moscow? They have nuclear bomb shelters for the entire cities population underground in the subway tunnels some of the deepest in the world dug that deep.specifically to be used as shelters. You can see the huge blast doors that periodically are on the sides of the tracks open when they close that section of the tunnel is sealed and blast proof. They also stick a years worth of food and water on side tunnels plus regularly practice moving masses of people into those tunnels. The Soviet and now Russian doctrine is to save as much of the population as possible and rebuild after. They view nuclear war as winnable and plan for such. St Petersburg also has shelters for most if not all of its population.

Now ask yourself what has the US dotgov done to shelter and protect its citizens? The political elite have bunkers have you personally ever been offered or practiced getting into a us built bunker I think not is the case. All the armchair commandos and generals are just that. Russia can win a nuclear exchange there country is three times the land mass and they didn’t put their icbm missiles on top of those bread basket so the fallout doesn’t poison it. The USA gets hit with a counter force attack and the entire Midwest and great Plains is a radioactive wasteland for a century or more. China has so many people even if we nuke half a billion they still have 700+ million left we couldn’t kill enough of them to end there civilization they have the demographic advantage. Same for India. The USA and UK lose any nuclear exchange that’s just mathematics and a total lack of effort and planning on the USA part for civil defence ...duck and cover boomers that’s the ticket right...right.

I’ll be fine I have 5 shipping containers buried with the help of my Mormon in laws on 250 acres up wind of all the major targets in Texas we will be fine with 2+ years of supplies as guided by our prophet Joseph Smith. Three feet of wet sediment is enough to cut rads by a factor of 10000 those containers are 18 feet deep centerline with two feet of poured concrete to counter buoyancy and 8 feet of dirt above that into the side of hill in the hill country. Right now there are cattle, goats and a couple of donkeys on it plus a bother in law with his compound on it as we are FLDS not LDS.


15 posted on 05/06/2024 9:57:21 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: toddausauras

Amen!


16 posted on 05/06/2024 9:59:55 PM PDT by sport
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To: AndyJackson

I take back what I said. I see what you did there.


17 posted on 05/06/2024 10:02:04 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: McGruff

I mean, think about it. Everyone thinks nukes as a response. But if some Brit weapon does something bad enough, say a Brit missile hits the Victory Day parade right in Red Square killing hundreds or something very off the hook like Ukes would do? So what happens if Russia responds by torpedoing one of their new carriers, or blows up Big Ben Tower in London?

Then what? Would we go first strike nuke, ensuring we, the Brits and Europe are flattened? Nope.
Is our military anywhere close to being ready to launch a land war into Russia? Nope.

So what happens if the bluff is called?
And I see nobody trying to deescalate anything.


18 posted on 05/06/2024 10:03:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. and hopes they could forc)
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To: Right Brother

Yeah his posting history shows that he was just joking 🙃


19 posted on 05/06/2024 10:12:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Nervous Tick

🤣👍👍


20 posted on 05/06/2024 10:13:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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