Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia's Bryansk region, Russia's Defense Ministry said, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war.
Russia has changed their nuclear policy. This brinkmanship might not work out.
#1 | Posted by sitzkrieg
"China's final warning" is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Russia has had so many Red Lines on Nukes it isn't funny.
Until it isn't. Their mistake for not drawing a line, our mistake thinking they never will.
Russia takes aim at U.S. nuclear power by throttling uranium
www.japantimes.co.jp
Ukraine isn't in NATO.
#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg
I thought you were alluding to Russia's threats to nuke members of NATO, including UK.
Earlier on Tuesday, President Putin approved changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal, treating strikes from non-nuclear states, backed by a nuclear state, like the US, as a joint attack on Russia.
www.bbc.com
@#28 ... What actions did they take to provoke a war? ...
Worthy of note...
Finland and Sweden asked to join NATO and were granted membership.
Countries ask to join NATO.
Why did they ask to join NATO?
Because of Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country.
How many countries have asked to join Russia's defense alliance, Collective Security Treaty Organization? And how many have withdrawn from that alliance?
Former member states of CST and CSTO
en.wikipedia.org
@#36 ... NATO was the cause of this War. It was an Aggressive Preventive War.
Russia saw a developing situation and preemptively Attacked to prevent an inevitable later War. ...
Preemptively attacked?
An unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country is now tried to be characterized as a preemptive attack?
For starters, there is the word "attack" in that assertion.
What is the justification of that attack?
Please be specific.
That aside...
I have suggested to your current alias previously.
And I will suggest it once again ...
Your current alias needs better talking points.
I mean really.
What else yer got beside apparent pres Putin propaganda?
"There is no Ukraine": Fact-Checking the Kremlin's Version of Ukrainian History (2020)
blogs.lse.ac.uk
... The notion that Ukraine is not a country, but a historical part of Russia, appears to be deeply ingrained in the minds of Russian leadership. ...
Russia and North Korea are actively attacking Ukrainians.
After decades of encroachment and lies from the west.
It was bound to happen, Washington wanted it to happen.
WATCH: Jeffrey Sachs tells the cold, hard truth how the US and NATO provoked war in Ukraine in 4 minutes
"It started in 1990, when US Secretary of State James Baker said to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch eastward...
The US then cheated on this, starting in 1994, when Clinton signed off on a plan to expand NATO all the way to Ukraine.
The expansion of NATO started in 1999 with Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
Then, the US led the bombing of Serbia in 1999. That was the use of NATO to bomb a European capital for 78 straight days to break the country apart.
The Russians didn't like that very much, but even Putin started out pro-European and pro-American. He considered whether to join NATO when there was still the idea of some kind of mutually respectful relationship.
In 2002, the US unilaterally walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. What it did was trigger the US putting in missile systems in Eastern Europe that Russia views as a dire, direct threat to national security, by making possible a decapitation strike of missiles that are a few minutes away from Moscow.
In 2004-2005, the US engaged in a soft regime change in Ukraine, the so-called First Color Revolution.
In 2009, Yanukovych won the election and became president in 2010 on the basis of neutrality in Ukraine.
In 2014, the US participated actively in the overthrow of Yanukovych. Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine...talked about regime change. So they made the new government!
The US then said 'now NATO's really going to enlarge.' Putin kept saying 'stop, you promised no NATO enlargement.'
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, seven more countries in the 'not one inch eastward.'
In 2021, Putin put on the table a draft Russian-US security agreement. The basis of it was no NATO enlargement.
The special military operations started, and five days later Zelenskyy said 'okay, okay, neutrality.'
And then the US and Britain said no way, you guys fight on. We've got your back. That's 600,000 deaths now of Ukrainians since Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv to tell them to be brave. Absolutely ghastly.
We're not dealing with, as we're told every day, this madman like Hitler. This is complete bogus, fake history that is a purely PR narrative of the US government.
We're playing games here. So God forbid a nuclear power comes at us. I don't know what's going to happen, but we came at them."
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