re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Is anybody worried about a depleted Russia flippin a nuke into Kyiv? That never seems to be discussed.

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No, it isn't discussed because it won't happen.

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The political tards have enough sewage here now to argue among themselves for pages and pages. Ya'll gave an inch and they took a mile.

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Yeah, this thread has gone to shite the past week. Half of every page is some political argument or troll.

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Is anybody worried about a depleted Russia flippin a nuke into Kyiv? That never seems to be discussed.

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It's been discussed for multiple pages several times in this thread.

Early in the war last year, Putin would frequently reference nukes. Whenever he would make a nuclear threat, this board would have a dozen posts worried about it. Even then, though, the answer was that Putin would never use a nuke, because that would be the surest way to lose the war. Even India and China would oppose Russia if they used nukes.

In fact, the reason that Putin quit talking about nukes was that Xi told him to STFU about them. And Putin obeyed.

And that's why the topic doesn't come up here so much anymore.

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This is nothing new. I tend to take people at their word, when they spend years saying the same things. Its not like he's held back in saying what the natural borders of Russia would be-- I mean, this is a guy who in 2019 put in an English language Foreign Affairs journal, in plain words, his belief in non-sovereignty of Ukraine.

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I wasn't offering it up as new information regarding his goals of imperial revanchism, which as you say is well documented.

It was more that what was said in the video doesn't correlate with historical record and Russia having a claim on the territories of Ukraine considering that claim only existed for just over 100 years. This is not much longer than Ukraine has existed as a sovereign entity in the context of history.

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Zeihan totally uses bullcrap as facts in some of this YouTubes. I will give him demographics, geography and history, but anything else he is pretty much clueless.

Russia importing most of its Bauxite from Ireland is like saying that the USSR exported freedom and peace. Or that no one screws animals in the Middle East, or Jackson, MS.

Tigris,

Best friend of my sister was over E&P for ExxonMobil in Kazakhstan about 20 years ago. The bureaucracy was nothing close to anything she ever experienced and frustrating as hell.

A friend with a small demolition company went to Kazakhstan to clean up all the old Soviet refining equipment, for Chevron, left unused and abandoned for a few decades. That was 15 or so years ago. No one would buy any of it, even though surplus hydrocracker reactors very well preserved by the climate, were in demand in Canada about that time, and he had several built to Soviet standards (twice the steel then needed, weld joint efficiency didn't really matter).

He did note that there were lots of feral cats and these feasted on the cobras around. Workers liked eating the cobras.

Yep, I still believe you're an idiot. Thanks for checking.

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just wondering if the good guys are still winning the war

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Yep.

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Errerrerrwere

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You can go back into your cave now.

This is very interesting. It's a sign that the Biden administration is worried about getting more Ukraine funding passed through Congress, and so they are saving money in the program.

Are the Ukrainians buying this with the money that we gave to them? Not really. Most of the money that we gave them is allocated for other things, and the EU is giving Ukraine far more cash than we are.

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WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday announced the approval of a US$285 million (S$385 million) sale of a NASAMS air defence system and related equipment to Ukraine as Kyiv seeks to boost protection against Russian strikes.

“Ukraine has an urgent need to increase its capabilities to defend against Russian missile strikes and aircraft,” the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.

“Acquiring and effectively deploying this capability will enhance Ukraine’s ability to defend its people and protect critical national infrastructure.”

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Note that this is for the purchase of a new system, so this saves money in USAI. To save drawdown money, the administration could start using Lend-Lease.

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Something is burning in Moscow in the vicinity of the Defense Ministry building.

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Reported on TASS that it is the Defense Ministry

Some video from twitter but it doesn't show a huge fire like the big picture you shared. The fire could be in another area of the building.

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