Maybe Putin will get whacked by his own people.
“ If our hand is forced well... take note it wasn’t us who proposed this.’”
Of course it couldn’t be Russia’s fault that any state that previously wasn’t a member of nato would suddenly want to join NATO. Finland and Sweden are clearly the provocateurs here !
Man, talk about a non-sequitur. Is Putin serious when he says that their joining NATO alters the balance of power in the Baltic? Our President is senile, but Putin is nuts.
Too funny! Russian Kaliningrad is already armed to the teeth, with both conventional and nuclear weapons.
Fine, let them join.
Put up or shut up though, you want in the club you pay your dues. They join, our portion drops by that amount or they can screw themselves.
Hiding under an umbrella that everyone else has carried because the downpour started doesn’t mean for free.
Putin is beginning to look like hitler in the bunker who was moving around imaginary divisions to defend Germany. He is already taking out anyone who he thinks failed or opposed him. Bad news because hitler let the whole place go down rather then admit defeat.
Anyone listening to Putin is a fool being set up for slaughter.
Threatening Nucs is signing the Russian death warrant
Russia is a like Nigeria, a third world nation with a few large cities.
The GDP of Russia with 146 million people is barely ahead of Australia with only 26 million people. Australia has no significant oil. That means Russia is a very small deal
Bluster like this is a sure sign of weakness.
Nukes are all Putin has. His navy is incompetent. His ground forces are a 1500 klics away in Ukraine and not very successful. His AF has yet to achieve supremacy. But his nuclear forces are present. Threatening to use them is all he has and he is insane enough to do it. In the old CP days the Politburo would have removed him, either to a Black Sea dacha or to a state funeral. But now?????
Well if Russia’s nuclear arsenal is like the rest of their military, then half will fail to detonate at all and the other half will hit Russian cities due to a targeting error.
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It would be appropriate for Russia to position nuclear weapons near the border of countries that threaten them with nuclear weapons. But, following the Cuban missile crisis, we and Russia (then, the Soviet Union) decided against such provocations. NATO did not put short- or intermediate-range nuclear-capable, offensive missiles in the Baltic countries, and wouldn’t do that in Finland, except perhaps in response to something Russia does.
We have to remember that we are the sane ones, and Russia is a paranoid, third-world country with lots of nuclear weapons. Russia is dangerous and unpredictable, and may have a death wish. Our choice now, as it was during the cold war, is either to surrender to them or be prepared to defend ourselves from them.
Let’s hope he was not planning to send them on board the “Moscow.”
Pooty has got small man syndrom. Time to call his bluff.But our problem is that the Biden administration has not got even one big dicked poliitician or military leader who can do the job.
I mean , if Boris Johnson. The UKs prime minister can do it, surely we can do it better? But most of the Biden team are deciding wherher they even want dicks or not.And so goes history, and the end of the dream of our founding fathers for the world.
All because the Biden administration cannot tolerate the genuine men of America.
Why would Russia threaten Finland and the Baltics with nukes? The radiation would simply blow back toward Russia.
We should trying to deescalate rather than taking actions that would lead to hot war with Russia or WWIII. Those that want that are truly lunatics that are endangering the well-being American and European citizens.
Uhh, what sort of naive TWOT doesn’t already know that Russia has nukes there. Or everywhere?
NATO was starting to unravel before the invasion. Russia has done them the favor of reminding them why it exists.
Nuclear weapons have been in the Baltic before this!