Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Does anyone have a recent Satellite pic of either Ukrainka or Engles air bases? It would be interesting to see have any of heavy bombers have been forward deployed. They're definitely not in Kaliningrad, or we would already have intercept pics. I know that TU-160 Blackjacks were firing cruise missiles from Russian and Belarusian airspace without crossing into Ukraine. If these heavy bombers are still at their home bases, it would be a clue to NATO that Putin's talk of a Nuclear strike is all hot wind. However, if they have been scattered around to Forward Bases, then the opposite could be true. Much the same way that the USAF wasted no time in forward deploying B-52's and B-2's to RAF Fairford. ( my brother lives beside Fairford and he has seen B2's taking off at stupid-o-clock some mornings.) Here's some pics I screenshotted from Earth of Ukrainka. Full of Bear Bombers.

Unfortunately, the Russians do not just have all their nukes stored in one location. They're dispersed across many places in a variety of different delivery methods. U.S intelligence seems pretty good, but I doubt that even it would know where all of Russia's nuclear devices are at any one time. It seems to me that if you were to target Russia's nukes, you'd want to do it in one highly coordinated, simultaneous and all-encompassing way where the aim was achieved pretty much without the Russians even knowing what had happened. Anything less would run the risk of making the Ruskies trigger happy.

I mean aside from anything else the territory of Russia is absolutely enormous. Who would be willing to bet that we knew the location of every single ICBM silo, every single nuclear capable submarine or ship, or even mobile ICBMs sitting in caves buried in the sides of mountains somewhere?

Let's just try to sort Ukraine out if we can and take the rest as it comes; hoping that the Russian people find a desire to engage with the world without having to constantly threaten everyone and anyone.

If the Ukrainians are now destroying Russian ships, as seems very likely....the humiliation is complete. There isn't a single branch of Russian military that can operate freely a month into war. No sir superiority, ground troops being minced up and navy being hit. FFS Vlad pull out now before they actually chase you out.

I respect your position and you also explain yourself, etc. it’s refreshing when someone like you give different perspectives as to what might/ has happened. But, IMO You are basing your position/ arguments on president. Eg It took years for the South African sanctions to be effective The current situation is totally, totally unprecedented. WHY . Because :-

(1) when was the last time one sovereign country invaded another sovereign country and for no obvious reason. Yes Putin has come up with loads of reasons but he can come up with any reason to justify his actions no matter how silly/illogical they are. A senior Russian official , recently said , in response to all the lies about no intention invading Ukr in any shape or form, that the reason was due to changed circumstances was that the Ukr was building up forces to attack Donbas and it had to head it off - even though , during the period of all the lies - from ambassadors , etc- it was building up a massive force on the UKR border

(2) the attacked sovereign, so far, has not fired even one bullet over the border

(3) the quality/ quantity of sanctions are UNPRECIDENTED this time and are being ratcheted up as time goes on . US , etc, reviewing current sanctions re loopholes to increase their effectiveness

(4) The ‘coming together of the international community , in an active way And with all types of military/ non military aid is UNPRECIDENTED eg Soverign countries being very proactive re housing refugees, EU, NATO

(5) this war and all of the above is being played out in real-time precisely because of ICT and how advanced it is. Previous wars were at a time when ICT was not as developed.

(6) most SPECIAL OPERATION MISSIONS /wars ‘ slowly develop over time, THIS ONE developed so fast and the way it developed that we have all been taken aback with the speed of things eg the number of refugees/ displaced people, the multi pronged attack Size of build up of RU army on border., number of deaths - All being done in real-time and in front of our eyes

So it’s hard to know how it’s going to pan out as there is NO PRECIDENT to help us to get a general direction

Hard to believe we're a full month into the invasion of Ukraine,and ukraine still controls the majority of the country

I imagine a time will come where that will happen to some extent.

But while there is citizens of other countries in Russia and some of these citizens are been snatched and imprisoned, it's wise to keep diplomatic channels open for their sakes.

I didnt advocate for "all out nuclear war" if you check btw

First time since that twat Gormley that I might be on a winner for still driving a petrol fueld tax collection station.

Agreed. But not a completely impossible scenario. And agreed it would have to be clandestine. I reckon the Japanese had no idea what was about to happen on the 6th of August 1945. I would also think there are now other possibilities than simply lobbing a load of nukes at known Russian silo or submarine locations and hoping to get them all.

I seriously wonder how much sleep he's getting and suspect that the answer is not nearly enough for the responsibility he carries.

Coincidence he has done a test now after 5 years?

Two can play at the we-can-expand-our-definition-of-an-attack game. 😃