Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Catfish]

Oh i expect everything is on the table for Putin when things go bad fir him. Using nukes is one thing, but what if he launches them from Belarus?

I do not think anyone will retaliate against Lukashenko and Belarus?

[Jimbuna]

I'm not convinced NATO will respond in kind.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Putin may launch nuclear strike 'to cause misery amid Russian failure to conquer Ukraine'

Vladimir Putin could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if he feels defeat is imminent, a leading think-tank has warned.

Moscow has prompted fresh concern in recent days over its willingness to deploy the devastating weapons, last week announcing it would move nuclear missiles into Belarus before today commencing exercises with its Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems.

In a research paper for the UK's leading foreign policy think tank Chatham House, Russia and Eurasia expert Keir Giles warned there is a 'non-zero' chance Putin could seek to use nukes in Ukraine.

He wrote: 'A nuclear strike could be ordered if there is no longer any possibility of claiming conventional victory and a powerful destructive attack on Ukraine is perceived as the only means of avoiding admission of a clear defeat.

'The moment at which Putin feels his options are exhausted is likely to be the most significantly dangerous decision point,' he concluded.

Giles pointed out that nuclear weapons would have very little military utility on the ground in Ukraine, given that the frontline stretches hundreds of miles and that any strike would not only kill Ukrainians, but also irradiate the land and render it uninhabitable for Russian troops.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...41b91dff&ei=77

The Western public may be stunned by such a stunt, but it is an accelerator to total Russian defeat. NATO must and would not afford to let this go by without a devastating reaction by its own. A no-fly zone would be enforced over Ukraine in short time, and then NATO air superiority would blast the sh1t out of evertyhing Russian on the ground everywhere in Ukraine.

They play the nukie-card as if it were a multiple-use trump card. It isn't. The blade of this threat has become blunt by now. And even if the use nukes, the military signficiance would bve extrenely limited - but the costs would be absolutely devastating. Because if NATO would not do what I desribed above it could say farewell to its role on global history's stage, would rank as a backyard joke only from then on.

Putin will do what he wants to do anyway, no matter what the West does, so I honestly do not care for what he implies, claims, says, threatens with. It does not matter to me anymore. And what he then does in reality is the only thing I care to focus on. Threats do not interest me that much. I make a mark on a tally sheet to keep count, that's all.

[Jimbuna]

Putin stages major nuclear missile exercises involving 3,000 troops in show of strength to the West

Vladimir Putin is staging major nuclear missile exercises involving 3,000 troops in a show of strength to the West.

The Russian despot's troops are staging war games with his 'invincible' Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system in three regions of Russia.

A video shows the Yars missile system - which replaced the Topol - on drills amid his war against Ukraine and high tension with the West.

'In total, more than 3,000 military personnel and about 300 pieces of equipment are involved in the exercises,' Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday.

The drills involve the Strategic Missile Forces comprehensive control checking of the Omsk missile formation together with a command and staff exercise with the Novosibirsk missile formation equipped with the Yars systems.

During the exercises, the Yars mobile systems will conduct manoeuvres in three Russian regions, the ministry said, without identifying the regions.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...80dda037&ei=98

[Jimbuna]

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, referring to US estimates, said that the losses of the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine already amount to more than 220,000 wounded and killed.

"The latest US estimate of Russian casualties in Ukraine puts the number of Russians dead and wounded at more than 220,000," Wallace said during a briefing with his Swedish counterpart, who is visiting London.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, as of March 29, 2023, 172,340 Russian occupiers have been eliminated.