JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia says it has the right to use weapons against military facilities in countries that allow weapons to be used against its facilities.
“We warned you about this, but you’ve made your choice.” pic.twitter.com/zDS7xjdgTG
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) November 27, 2024
Does this seem actually insane to anyone? To just listen to Putin threatening to send nukes and then claim he’s too pussy to go through with it so they can do whatever they want to him?
Like, we had that whole Cold War thing for decades, and the US government was telling people the Russians were going to nuke them, telling kids to hide under desks when the nukes drop. If JFK or Nixon had said “nah, those faggots ain’t gonna do shit,” it would have raised a lot of eyebrows, certainly.
It’s possible the Cold War nuclear hysteria was a bit too extreme, but the situation right now is a lot worse than it was in the 60s or 70s, and there is legitimately a chance the Russians could start firing nukes.
Saying “Putin is a pussy, don’t worry about him” seems sort of irresponsible.
The U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with U.S. intelligence told Reuters.But Russia is likely to expand a campaign of sabotage against European targets to increase pressure on the West over its support for Kyiv, said two senior officials, a lawmaker and two congressional aides briefed on the matter.
A series of intelligence assessments over the past seven months have concluded nuclear escalation was unlikely to result from a decision to loosen restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weapons. That view has not changed following President Joe Biden’s changed U.S. stance this month on weapons, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive intelligence.
It’s unlikely a person who orders a coffee doesn’t know it’s hot. But the McDonald’s cup still says that.
Something being “unlikely” and therefore not any problem at all is not how American society usually functions.
“The assessments were consistent: The ATACMs weren’t going to change Russia’s nuclear calculus,” said one congressional aide briefed on the intelligence, referring to American missiles with a range of up to 190 miles (306 km).Russia’s launch of a new ballistic missile last week, which analysts say was meant as a warning to Washington and its European allies, has not changed that conclusion.
See: Responding to US/UK Attacks, Russia Fires New Ultra-Hypersonic Ballistic Missile Into the Ukraine
One of the five U.S. officials said while Washington assessed that Russia would not seek to escalate with its nuclear forces, it would try to match what it views as U.S. escalation. The official said fielding the new missile was part of that effort.U.S. officials said the intelligence has helped guide an often divisive debate over recent months inside Biden’s administration about whether Washington loosening restrictions on Ukraine’s use of American weapons was worth the risk of angering Putin.
Putin doesn’t use a cellphone and doesn’t allow them in meetings. I’m honestly not sure how they can even claim to have intelligence this specific about what Putin is thinking. He has very publicly put nuclear weapons on high alert and they’re ready to be fired at a moment’s notice. He gives the word and those suckers are in the air in seconds.
This “unlikely” business might make sense if we were facing some kind of existential threat from Russia and making decisions under those circumstances, but regardless of the calculations about likelihood, we are currently at some level of risk of cities in Europe and even America getting nuked because the US wants to control the Ukraine, something which they have not explained other than to claim they want to help gays.
It’s a very strange situation all around.
”PUTIN’S MESSAGE WAS CLEAR”
Imagine if those warheads were armed with nukes.
I believe the message was clear from Putin. pic.twitter.com/dm5ovIE5F7
— WORLD AT WAR (@World_At_War_6) November 21, 2024
