Russia-Ukraine updates: Russia reportedly floats public executions in Ukraine

The Baltic nations and Poland are NATO members. Russia attacking any of those would start a World War.

 

War in Yemen does not threaten contamination of large swaths of fertile land. World food production will drop significantly if that power plant has a meltdown.

 

Yep....a possibility of another Chornobyl.....only 10X worse....it'll affect EVERYONE in that region....Russia included....but I guess the Kremlin chimp hasn't taken that into consideration.....too blinded with angry hate ?

 

Baltics and Poland are mentioned by Putin ...that have some age old land issues from whatever back in the day....?

 

Because their conventional military is for $hit....they know they can't fight a REAL military.

 

Is that what you want???

 

Nope.....just one man..........ad because we are so interconnected........the whole world is reacting. to his insanity......


Lest we forget the power of the internet..

 

A keyboard warrior there is a way to 'end' your frustrations. Register as a volunteer and off you go. Talk is cheap.

 

But a war between the US and Russia will be environmentally safe?

 

So...therefore you think the US should go to war with Russia now?

If Putin attacked either the Baltic states or Poland, we would be in a war. Everyone knows it, including Putin. Right now though, we're not at war with Russia, so why should we start one?

 

Wanting to plunge the entire world into war is far more insane than one dictator attacking one country.

 

Correct, looking at facts on the ground Russia would have to nuke their way to the Atlantic ocean or into any NATO country. A combined American EU force would stop the Russians in their tracks if it was conventional like in Ukraine based on what we have seen. Once Ukraine is done anything else when discussing NATO nations is just fear mongering, Russia obviously could not do it from what we have seen in Ukraine without lobbing nuclear weapons to clear the way. This invasion is actually a good thing concerning what NATO is learning about the Russian military conventionally.

 

wonder if anyone on the right will say Putin doing this is genius?

 

If you are an objective observer you would've known that all along. Russia is not a superpower as it used to be. Their economy has been pitiful for quite some time. Their population is getting older and their overall numbers keep dropping. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would know that Russkies aren't capable of taking over Europe. Only idiots believe in Washington DC fear mongering. The U.S military complex is out there to make money for themselves. Sell more weapons and force Europeans to buy more expensive natural gas from them. Freedom and all that nonsense is just a smokescreen. It's all about the money. It has always been.

 

Nobody cared about Yemen before the nuclear plant was assaulted, media wont touch it unless they are talking about Iran. Capital is bombed there all the time, but its under Houthi so its looked at in a different frame.

 

Im trying to objective, conventionally before they played their hand maybe I would be concerned they could take small portions of a smaller NATO country but not any more. They still have the nuclear threat, but conventionally they are no threat to any NATO country based off what we have seen. Unless NATO members are talking nukes, conventional talk is just fear mongering.

 

1939 is calling. It wants its American isolationism back.

 

The purpose of the alliance was to counter Russian aggression in Europe.
Its continuing purpose is the same.
Stop invading countries on a land grab for a century or two and everyone will chill the **** out.
Maybe stop shelling a nuke plant, even the admin building, as well..

 

It's easy to say that(like apathetic Germans of the 30's), but then you remember exactly the SS and the death camps and what those who dared to rebel faced. True, those who did so showed tremendous courage and human character, but can you truly blame someone who didn't? In the ideal human society, we have our families, our loved ones and our career. These things should take precedence over the government and it's government's job to assure that remains a reality.

Faced with the pressure of civilian action to restore the government, is not an easy or enviable task. That's why our framer's successful revolution is a miracle, not the norm.

 

WW2 was honestly different from our situation today. Had we gotten involved in 1939, we would have lost the war. We simply didn't have a war machine back then(obviously of course, we kicked it into overdrive.). But lend-lease, the weakening of the AXIS and the neutrality until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, those were major events that drove our victory IMO. If we went in recklessly, we could've been the Italians of the Allies.

 

An interesting point. I agree we wouldn't want to be hasty.

 

So not going to war with Russia because they attacked Ukraine is isolationism?