Russia - threadbanned users in OP

You're willing to take the chance of nuclear war. Maybe do the first bit of research on how a nuclear war would play out before allowing your opinion to dictate the future of our species.

As for your IQ being double mine, I assuming you don't know a whole lot about IQ scores either. Ireland has an average IQ of 95, I would if pushed assume that anyone advocating for nuclear war whilst quite obviously knowing nothing about it would likely score quite a bit lower than that or they are simply unwilling to accept the truth on the subject.

Nobody is advocating that Putin should be allowed free reign but the primary logic of nuclear deterrence (that rational people are at the controls) would seem to have been compromised and therefore the potential for nuclear war (which IS worse than what's going on in Ukraine or has gone on in any war previously) is higher than it's been since 1962.

I'm saying that a basic understanding of how a nuclear war will play out would give people a more nuanced understanding of what facing off with an insane dictator with an itchy trigger finger would result in.

On the one hand we have Russian troops destroying Ukraine, a horrible situation that none of us want to see. On the other there's the guarantee that all of the human species will be wiped out.

Russia have been struggling in Ukraine, they haven't made the type of progress they want to make, their losses have been considerable and the sanctions that the world has put on Russia are only beginning to bite. War is expensive and taking away a country's ability to maintain an invasion will be the ultimate reason this ends.

However, we have countless posters here that want a quick fix military intervention from the west (who are incidentally supplying Ukraine with an abundance of weapons essentially doing everything but going in a using them for them).

The problem is that such an intervention would likely result in a chain of events you don't seem to have a clear understanding of.

If there was a chance that what you are advocating could work it would have happened already.

We should all be happy that the people making such decisions know more than a lot of people here do about the risk involved.

So the special forces, the militia and the Chechens are all to mount an assault on Kyiv it seems, and of course they now know exactly where Zelensky is (will there be a missile strike on Bankova Street?) - he's defiant and it's a great moral boost, but seriously what was he thinking publicly revealing where he is, unless of course he has since moved, very brutal bloody days ahead for Kiev on both sides:-

I think the Russian notion of just Crimea, Donbas and Luhansk may be long surpassed and that the conditions would be more like Ukraine to cede Ukraine.

There's a massive fall in the amount of planes in the sky over Russia at the moment now that Aeroflot has discontinued international flights from today.

I would like to cross reference the countries worse affected with the ones that abstained in the UN. They can ask for aid from Russia.

An excellent read from the 1980s on what would happen in the event of a nuclear war. I remember reading it when it was serialized in The New Yorker magazine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fate_of_the_Earth

I think there quite a few possible 'intermediate' nuclear steps.

Nuclear 'demonstration' over the ocean, some remote area or space.

In the sky above Ukraine, or eventually on the ground in Ukraine.

Frightening prospect.

Yemen has had huge problems for a very long time, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world will follow them.

This is a list of fertiliser producers and yes Russia are big but just 13% of fertilisers. Prices have risen and will rise more but we can adapt to that shortfall.

Wheat production too can be increased and while it may not fully offset the loss of Russia, it will all help.

With all the talk of the Kremlin running out of cash to fund the war effort, if I was an oligarch, I'd be feeling increasingly nervous that Putin might call me in for a meeting at that mile-long table, and ask me to do my duty to the motherland ("You can either pay or fight!"). Which I'm sure guys who own $30million yachts would have little interest in doing....