re: Ukrainians have now attacked a second critical Russian nuclear early warning radar.

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The simple point to this whole ordeal is that Russia will not allow NATO controled states next to their border.

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An even simpler point is you’re clueless about European geography.

Russia has already allowed NATO member states “next to their border.”

Look at a map and find Finland, Estonia and Latvia. All are NATO members.

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The simple point to this whole ordeal is that Russia will not allow NATO controled states next to their border. They will not allow labs that are creating bioweapon technology. They will not allow nato troops and/or nato weapons (conventional or nuclear) in those states. Ukraine along with the US and NATO did or were going to do all of them. The globalists have taken over the US and now like Russia and china. Take out Russia and the rest of the world/globalist will starve china out. Job complete at that point.

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I'm sorry I don't comprehend this. I apologize. How do you spell Finland, Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania? Throw in Poland. All border Russia. And NATO troops are in all these countries. Not sure about biolabs and nukes. I hope not. I may reconsider if Russia has placed nukes in Belarus.
Ukraine won't be a NATO country anytime soon, if ever.

Finlands border is a short afternoons drive from St Petersburg. If keeping nato at arms length was Putins goal than he already lost regardless of the outcome in Ukraine.

RiverCityTider, you are correct. 100 %.
Unfortunately, many here can't seem to comprehend such a simple concept.
It's so very simple.
How would America react if Russia was preparing to set up military bases along our Mexico border??
Folks have to give up the MSM Kool aid as a starting point. Another misconception for most is that Russia "lost" the cold war. Russia CHOSE to turn away from communism. It wasn't due to a civil war or a revolution. It was a chosen path of action to become a part of the Western world trade. Rather than pulling in Russia, the West kept Russia on the outside and have pushed them into closer relationship with Russia, India and the rest of the BRICS.
America will be worse because of it.

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The Putin apologists overlook Putin’s aggression in Georgia and Ukraine

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The Putin fan boys on here never acknowledge that the only two former Soviet republics Putin has invaded happen to be non-NATO members. Armenia and Azerbaijan might be next.

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Put differently, an ''"ultimatum"" would have insinuated the alternative as war. Based on the surprise at Russian invasion by both Ukraine and the West, there was no ""ultimatim.""

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Did you intend to spell ultimatum that way?

Also, your knowledge of events preceding the invasion is not strong at all. It's like I have to spend time educating you on facts of history and then having you, in oddly mangled English, explain the most naive ideas about geopolitics back to me.

Also, this misrepresents what happened, in a factual sense. There were 3 factions within NATO. One who correctly guessed the intent, one who doubted it, and one who needed convincing. The real facts of the matter, not something counter-factual, was that reports of the intent of a Russian invasion broke before the key December meeting that occurred in Moscow between an unnamed US ambassador at the Russian Foreign Ministry. So there was a group, namely the US, who were insisting that Russia was going to invade and were doing so before the meeting with Russia occurred in December 2021.

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Putin's opinion was, Russia can walk into Kyiv and dictate terms.

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The truth is that Putin has wanted to dictate terms for a long time but could never find sufficient leverage to get what he wanted. Framing Russian extra-territorial actions since 2002 under that lens makes that clear.

Cool map, Thxs.

Did Ukraine take out the western radar systems too? The Armavir systems?

Partially I think

The point is without these systems, Moscow in down to about a 6 minute warning time. The US has 18 minutes.

The net effect of this expansion is a reduction in warning time. Six minutes means peace and war, life and death has to be decided very, very quickly

I looked myself and it appears Armsvir was attacked once. The other attacks were against Orsk it seems.