Renton
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And here's another fact I never knew, Ukraine has a population of 42 million, the vast majority of which do not want to be occupied. Honestly, I don't know how he could hold onto it?
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What about Ukraine stopping him. An army of 250,000 soldiers with indirect Western support.
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The line in the land is a NATO country man. The treaty would oblige us to act. It's quite an important piece of paper. The idea that Putin is going to roll up to the Brandenburg gate without opposition is silly. It's massively doubtful he can even take Ukraine imo.
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If there is even a 1% chance of the latter happening I don't want to risk it. I would supply Ukraine with anything they ask for, and have a huge crackdown on all Russian assets and people in the West. These cunts will still be out shopping in Harrods today and sending Tarquinesky to Harrow after half term. They can get fucked.
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Tbf the line was blurred in Ukraine already which facilitated this situation somewhat. The line against NATO countries is crystal clear. I would be sending in NATO troops now to Poland, the Baltic nations, and the Balkan nations, if we are not already doing so.
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All for this. But the tories are up their nuts in Roubles so will never happen. Yet again we have the worst possible government at the worst possible time.
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That's too vague. A ground counter-attack? Air war? What? If Putin starts losing AND it involves the US and NATO, then how do you think he will react?
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Okay, how? You always seem vague on this?
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Is Bond dead? FFS, spoilers.
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No we're not happy but from my pov that is preferable to direct combat between Russia and NATO which could easily escalate to Armageddon. There's a lot of unknowns here as well. Just how strong is the Russian military, not in numbers, but in terms of technology. The US's defence budget has been in excess of 50 times that of Russia's for 3 decades now. Is it unfeasible that Ukraine armed with these gadgets could defeat the Russian bear? Always easier to defend than attack as well. Ukraine is a fucking huge country, no way can Putin control it forever given it's not liberation, it's occupation. There seems to be an assumption he is some kind of genius and has won already. I'm not sure that is true.
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Putin really is a piece of work. If Ukraine really is so closely tied with Russia (it is), then why is he killing them?
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You're think of @Rayvin here, right?
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I always want to think of the Germans as rational, scientific people, as witnessed by their car industry. But it's not true. To close down nuclear power after Fukishima and make themselves dependent on Russia was frankly insane. Their anti-GM food agenda also is nonsensical, and was one of the things I really didn't agree with the EU on. Also Germans are prone to believing in all sorts of woo, homeopathy, anti-vax, the occult, you name it. And they have a worse cuisine than us.
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The extremes on both sides of politics are Russian supporters or appeasers. Either scum by design or naïve useful idiots.
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The similarities are remarkable. Not just Johnson either, Trump, Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Jinping. Pathetic popularist shit bags ruining the World. It's time for a matriarchy to sort this mess out.
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Taken down already!
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We're almost in spring thankfully, gives us a bit of time. In the meantime a concerted effort from the West can totally fuck Russia economically.
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3 day week will sort it.
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Btw, anyonw who calls it Ki-ev is a russian stooge. The Ukrainian call it "Keith" from what I can make out on the BBC news. Prayers for Keith.
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I was looking at his on a map yesterday, which led me to read up on the history of the situation. Fascinating, I never knew Russia had an enclave in the heart of Europe.
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Because I still can't get my head around why. It doesn't strike me as a rational action, I was assuming Putin was a rational actor. If he isn't, I hope he can be taken out from within. I see now why he had long tables.
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I wonder how much can be compensated for by re-routing energy supplies, what the scope is? I can see the cause for Scottish independence and NUFC getting significant boosts.
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Sanctions are massively asymmetrical in the west's favour. You can see that looking at the fall in value of the rouble today. But it will massively hurt Europe too. I hold up my hands, I didn't think he would launch a country wide attack. I still don't want to directly intervene with boots on ground but we should be providing them with as much military support as we can, give them drones, air defence, tank defence etc. And firmly draw a line behind incursions to any NATO country. Very worrying times we live in.
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From the Express article comments. Urgh. To be fair to the Russians, there's at least one incident in history where a human intervened in a false alarm and avoided global annihilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident I never thought I'd have to worry about nuclear war again, but now I'm starting to. Isn't this decade turning out great?
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The tsar bomba! However, I have heard some talk from Russians they could "win" a nuclear war. Firstly this is clearly bollocks, but secondly, why would you want to?
