Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Most military analysis since the weekend has been about the fact that the Kerch Bridge was / is vital to resupplying the Putin forces in Ukraine.

Well, that's him told.

Back in reality, only one country put forward the concept of introducing nukes into this conflict and that country was Russia. You can bet your life that the US are never going to launch any kind of nuke over the issue of Ukraine. If one were to hit American soil, it would probably be quite a different story, but not Ukraine.

Big bad America....bad bad boy!!! Very strange though, that thousands and thousands of people try to enter the US every year...far more than the nrs trying to get Russian citizen ship..actually, in Putins Russia, the life is so bad that for every 1'000 live births, there are 500 abortions. You can check the stats if you want. There's something rotten in a Country where women prefer not to bring children into it..one of the reasons that Putin is kidnapping Ukrainian children to try and stop the falling birthrate. Its what happens when a mafia state sucks the life out of a Country. Give me the big bad ol' Us of A any day for all it's faults any day.

Russia ranks 4th in the world in terms of migration, ahead of the UK and one place behind the Utopia that is Saudi Arabia.

Not in or between liberal democracies. That's my point, and it is unprecedented in human history for so many states and regions to coexist peacefully. But it is in the areas where liberal, democratic, capitalistic countries are. We are still living with the curse of totalitarianism, communist and socialist destruction of humanity in order to save humanity. You're just in too deep with the Chomskyesque propaganda to understand that. The US has, quite rightly, often acted to extend the benefit from this progress, that you and I enjoy, to other states. Putin is trying to drag Russia and its former colonies back to totalitarianism.

I'm telling you you are still within an ideological bubble, a simplified world view with an invented bogeyman. You can get out of it.

You think that in the current world set up, with the US facing war with China over Taiwan, a destabilized EU and west generally is in the best interests of the US? A successful and prosperous EU / west is a win / win for the US. Both from an economic and security point of view. Why do you think that they are supporting Ukraine and the west against Putin? If they wanted a destabilized EU, all they had to do was keep out of Putin's war. But no, that's not in the best interests of the US.

The yanks only act to benefit themselves, something you are going to learn all about in the next 12 months, just because they looked out for outposts such as Ireland in the past does not negate the fact they will drop us the minute we are no longer useful as a political entity for their own homeland. We should not be reliant or stupid enough to think this will continue. It is to our detriment we have this outdated mindset when they are ten leagues ahead of us.

Thankfully it looks like all will be rescued:-

Yes Lizzy, and who started all of this destruction? I'll tell you who. One Vladimir Putin when he illegally invaded the sovereign state of Ukraine. And every single death and all destruction since and still to come, is squarely on him, and no one else. Have you lived in Ukraine, and been bombed?

Not seeing this reported anywhere, perhaps more on it tomorrow?

Missile strikes on their own never worked before. Putin needs boots on the ground if he is to achieve what he wants, regime change from a democratic state to a puppet dictatorship. He doesn't have that, why risk civil unrest to conscript 300k men if had easier options with weapons of mass destruction. The incompetence and lack of morale among the ground forces and the staggering impotence in establishing air superiority make this war practically unwinnable now, based on his goal of regime change.

I'd say they don't have much choice but to listen to it...but the question is do they believe it?? I'd say that many do. I have many Russian friends, and I was more than surprised to hear how much of it they not only believed, but actually supported it. And before this kicked off, I'd have considered them to be well educated levelheaded people. So you never know.

Russia took a risk doing what they did yesterday, and it was based on the argument '' the West will not respond if we do this'' and sadly it looks like they won't , after this Russia just got stronger. The time has come to step up, and the US and Nato have let it slide, and I THINK we all know, if Putin was to use a nuke, they'd let it slide also 😐️

Would rather see the fleet in the Black Sea sunk, like tonight. .... your move Putin

They spent well over half a billion dollars to murder 14 people and hit zero military targets. If anything it weakens them by having ~100 less missiles to use on actual military significant targets.

IIRC, every time some new puppet takes the helm of the 'SMO', Russia launch a large amount of missiles and the next day it's back to the usual rut for them.