Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Imagine how much it would boil our blood if the UK invaded the Republic of Ireland at some point in the future and you had commentators in other parts of the world going, "Well, they speak the same language, have a shared history, and didn't I see some people from that island waving a Union Jack on TV a few times? Obviously there is some justification for this invasion..."

The history between Ukraine and Russia has certainly not always been rosy, and indeed, they have their own famine memories in even more recent history than ours and more of a case to say it was a deliberate genocide by the Soviet regime of the time, perhaps. So, the idea that Ukraine's latter day moves to distance itself from Russia are nothing more than a result of western meddling would be to ignore the history between the countries in question.

That's hilarious. I saw a pro-Russian YouTuber talk for 15 minutes about this a few weeks ago. They were spinning it as a plot hatched by MI6 to send Ukrainian commandos across the Dniepr to try and seize the nuclear power plant. He claimed that they had killed 65 of them. I remember thinking it was fishy since the only people reporting it were pro-Russian twitter accounts and there was no evidence of any bodies or anything like that.

You are avoiding the question. Putin did not suddenly have a fight with his mistress one morning, take his anger out by kicking the dog and deciding that day was a good day to invade another country. He and the people around him have a history of interfering in the affairs of "near Russia", and did signal their intentions over the course of his reign. There was a build up to this over two decades.

Explain how this could have been prevented in your opinion

I would feel a good deal of sympathy towards Armenia, given that they've had to endure a lot of pain from the Ottoman Empire and which segues into the modern day of Turkey backing Azerbaijan against them, but Armenia really have the wrong ally in Russia. Unfortunately for them, their geographical position doesn't offer a whole lot of other options on who to buddy up with.

All your bomb are belong to us

They must be one of the most unfortunately placed country on earth in terms of geopolitics. They are a small, mountainous country whose two largest borders are closed for reasons of a past genocide and an ongoing conflict. They don't appear to have any natural energy resources whereas their chief antagonist is swimming in hydrocarbons - which it can use to buy more and more modern weaponry with which to fight them with.

If Russia doesn't come to their rescue they look to be in serious trouble right now.

Just because someone says they 'have 30 years worth of experience' studying nuclear weapons on Quora does not mean it to be fact. He's really really downplaying nuclear arms to a bizarre level.

To go Nukemap

Select Kiev as the target.

Detonate a 100Kt device and see how much of Kiev it fills.

Now that's a fairly low yield nuclear device compared to some of the bigger ones out there, its 5 times the size of the Nagasaki bomb (which was 20Kt) but you have bombs like the US's W-53 ICBM at 9Mt - or in other words, 9000Kt.

But still, at the lower end of the scale, that is huge. Now also keep in mind that ICBMs carry multiple reentry devices, which would be multiple detonations per ICBM. There would then be multiple ICBMs.

Yes, Ukraine is huge as a country, but when you launch nuclear attacks, you don't blast every single part of a country. You blast it's cities and you'd fire multiple ICBMs at each one which could have multiple reentry devices in each ICBM.

Now the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal is another question entirely and I would imagine it is in a huge state of disrepair with a large percentage of it not functioning - however, that post is almost calling into question the destructive power of an actual functioning nuclear arsenal which I find odd.

And that's before you even start to talk about radioactive fallout and the implications of that.

That may well be the case but what if the neighbouring states in 'Near Russia' don't want to be interfered with. Suppose they wish to run their own affairs.

France wouldn't put with say Germany interfering in their affairs and telling what they can do. We wouldn't take kindly if the UK routinely interfered in our affairs, would we?

Russia still have delusions of empire and being the head honcho in the USSR etc. That ship has sailed as far as Ukraine goes, whatever about Belarus etc.

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