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this keeps getting worse for putin. good.
Germany has started approving arms transfers.
Russians are going to run out of stuff on wheels/track/wings before Europe runs out of missiles.
I don't want to see US boots either but we did signs treaty agreeing to defend the Ukrainians from aggressors and we are more or less pretending that treaty doesn't exist.NO, I DO N OT want to see US boots on the ground in this shitstorm. It's just not our fight...I'm fckng tired of the US being drawn into every war to be the police. Defend our borders...yes, defend US (not corporate) interests abroad...maybe
You're dreaming if you think the sons and daughters of the Republican elite will end up being drafted. Children of the "average Joe American"? Sure...we've got a long history of doing that, but the children of the wealthy and powerful always get exempted...Just ask Captain Bone Spurs.
I don't want to see US boots either but we did signs treaty agreeing to defend the Ukrainians from aggressors and we are more or less pretending that treaty doesn't exist.
I really don't know how to feel about the 1994 peace treaty we signed with them. It really at this time seems like a betrayal. At the very least they should have been admitted to NATO much earlier.
I've wondered that too, maintenance of nukes and their delivery systems is very expensive. Based on their air force and tanks, I have doubts about how many would get out of their silos.Because there's a certain level of technological progress and industrial competence that's implied by being a nuclear nation. What Russia is presenting is the efforts of a third world dictator with rusty cold world garbage.
Given the presentation of this invasion, one has to question how much effort has gone into maintenance of those nukes.
I suspect it's entirely true. It's clear no real effort was built to create supply lines. Minimal effort was deployed to a single airport near Kyiv, probably only to bring in SOF troops. No rail yards were secured, no road systems beyond the south near Crimea, no other areas that could have even served as air strips in a pinch. This was minimal effort for an expected minimal resistance, and it was expected to be over in a day or two. Bunch of clowns.This is probably BS but if even part of it is true...
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They all know if nuke any one they and their families would all be dead within 45 minutes. That is much different than attempt to stop an invasion of a former satellite state.Sure sure, key power players that gets flown off buildings if they dont obey command.
You really think there is any of that structure left? And the Ukraine invasion still pushed forward? I am gonna put my money on NO.
It's looking a bit like Putin may have miscalculated here more than a little.
I don't want to see US boots either but we did signs treaty agreeing to defend the Ukrainians from aggressors and we are more or less pretending that treaty doesn't exist.
I really don't know how to feel about the 1994 peace treaty we signed with them. It really at this time seems like a betrayal. At the very least they should have been admitted to NATO much earlier.
Without Nukes, Russia has a pretty lousy Army. They would get mauled by the USA.Apparently Putin has now deployed about 50% of his military assets thus far, and getting pretty agitated by the effective Ukrainian resistance. How much gear and boots is he willing to expend here I wonder. Will it be the Russian military that gets gutted, leaving Russia with only missiles and a Navy to threaten a stronger NATO with?
Ukrainian missiles appear to have hit a Russian military base in Millerovo, a Russian town 16 kilometers from the border of the two countries, according to unconfirmed social media posts.
I believe the below will answer your question.I mentioned that in the other post...I kinda doubt it does and in this kind of war where it is untrained citizens forced to defend themselves against an invading army, it's probably on the table, to a certain degree?
