Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russia will not use nuclear warheads in the event of a counter-offensive in Ukraine. Think about it. As far as the Russians are concerned, dropping nukes on the US, UK or Germany would have exactly the same result as if they fired their own nukes directly at themselves. If they do anything at all, it will be a token show of strength, for example a small tactical warhead on some unknown, uninhabited atoll in the Pacific. The game is over once all the cards are thrown down. The benefit of having nuclear weapons is in not having to use them. Only a siege of Moscow would trigger an all-out strike, if it were ever to happen at all.

Welcome back ...

And yes I think posters here hate the layout more than even Putin.

I'd imagine the second scenario is the more likely. When intelligence people have a source that's feeding them good information they're unlikely to draw attention to it. Look how carefully the allies protected "Ultra" Enigma decrypts during the war, sometimes even to the point of not acting on information for fear of the Germans sussing out that there was only one way the allies could have come by it. Occasionally, as was the case with a German task force approaching Crete, they had time to send a reconnaissance flight to "find" the target begore hitting it.

My guess is they can't resist the temptation to mind-fcuk an already paranoid Putin. And if that results in a damaging purge against his own guys, so much the better.

It's a coin-toss. 😀

What time is tomorrow's protest and where does it start?

You do realise you're rambling away to yourself at this stage, don't you. Your mask slipped on this way back.

I assume this new Russian legislation "that introduces felony liability for disseminating fake information about Russia’s armed forces" doesn't actually include any of the fake information their state media or Putin spreads on a 24/7 basis.

What are you waffling on about ?

NATO interventions ....

Operation Joint Guard, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992

Operation Allied Force, Kosovo-Montenegro-Serbia in 1999

These involved no fly zones and bopmbing of belligerents.

Afghanistan War, Afghanistan in 2004

Operation Ocean Shield, Somalia in 2009

Military Intervention in Libya in 2011

None of the countries involved were NATO members.

I, for one, have never protested against Ireland threatening the world with nuclear weapons. The best we could do on that front would be using the microwave with its little door open, anyway.

Not sure, but we will probably get a glimpse of "Puss in Puts" inside the embassy. 😁

Mother Russia spends 3.9% of GDP on the military. It could spend more on education and healthcare if it wasn't a warmonger.

I was thinking to myself there should be a "B" division of wannabe member states who maybe get 20% level of investment with clear conditions on what needs to be fixed before becoming full members and all the good stuff that brings

How much of that money actually makes it to purchasing equipment or how many of the supplies purchased stay in the quartermasters buildings. Not a lot judging by the state of the frontline troops in the Ukraine.

вы говорите нам, что вы думаете

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