And here is the moment it sails over everyone's head that this is exactly the same claim for Palestine that many are claiming occurs when the US sells weapons to Israel.
Weird.
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I always have to preface this by saying I am by no means a Putin apologist, but just follow the money. America loves a war no matter where it is. And why? Because we gotta sell all these bombs and missiles to someone…
Didn't he already repeatedly claim that he's fighting directly with the West?
Even in his own words what would this change?
Do eeeitttt. Russia is already invaded by Ukraine with no direct participation of NATO. Let's see how they do against actual NATO planes, tanks, ships and soldiers.
But answer me this: is Russia allowed to use long-range missiles?
Give to them by their allies?
Yes.
But using them long range?
Also yes.
On civilian targets?
Well actually yes too.
Just give the Ukrainians the needs to erase the existance of russian army inside its borders ffs (so including long range strikes inside all of russia).
Yes and so is Ukraine.
The issue was whether Ukraine using externally supplied long range missiles counted as escalation. Which is a non-issue since Russia is using externally supplied (from Iran and NK) long range missiles - they already escalated it.
Maybe the word "directly" didn't translate well. If Russia engages NATO directly, their forces will be wiped off the map. Ukraine is using old NATO equipment from the 90s that was pulled out of storage and kicking all kinds of Russian ass. Direct NATO involvement would mean carrier groups, F35s, stealth bombers, and a whole lot of other fun things the Russians have zero answer for.
So he's currently struggling against just Ukraine but he's warning us that he could end up facing the whole of NATO?
I can understand how the guidance systems being still controlled by NATO satellites/support mechanisms would be considered a different level for them, but is it just more sabre rattling? That's the question.
Yes, this is just more saber rattling.
Is anyone, anywhere in the West afraid of this happening?
It might just be time to shut them the fuck up for good.
I'm slightly worried about the really big guns russia supposedly have, but only slightly. At this point, it's not like there's a big red "launch" button on putin's desk; it'd have to go through a few people that may have the actual big picture in their mind.
We bought those people off decades ago, all their yachts, townhouses and other decent shit is as far from Russia as possible.
But if they see they can back us down and let them invade a country by waving nukes, they will be greatly encouraged to do so again, the cost/benefit ratio is far too high, they're getting something for literally nothing.
This is exactly how world wars start.
They won't shut up they'll give warnings each time something comes along. They switched their nonsense from "red lines" to "open war" because that sells better to fearmongers. In reality, Ukraine has shown in Kursk how much the red lines mean - that is fuckall. Biden just needs to stop being a pussy and say yes.
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