If not in Putin's head surely the wisdom gained from this ridiculous Russian attempt at warfare must create serious concerns about going toe to toe with NATO. One country backed with NATO equipment and not a single NATO brigade on the ground has thwarted every attempt to make progress for nearly a year.
Obviously even a tiny bit of risk is too much of a risk with nukes, but personally I don’t think for a split second the Russians have the bollocks to use nuclear weapons.The Russian’s know NATO would smash them within a month, if not even quicker.
Trouble is this terrorist nation has bloody nukes and is fucking mental enough now to use them if we escalate, hence NATO can‘t directly intervene or it’s the end of society as we know it for the entire northern hemisphere.
It took longer than 10 years in reality. I worked there in the 1980s, and a sizeable number hated our presence (and this was in the industrial northwest, I think it was far worse in the south), and were still pretty resentful.
Even now they have a right wing that isn't small, with extreme tendancies, ironically it seems to be more based in the former soviet east.
Pretty sure it will decade's to integrate, that's after this ends, which shows no sign of being soon.
I think the west needed the Germans intergrated far more than the russians though.Yet we did this with Germany within a decade, who were much worse.
My thinking exactly and has been for a while. But what the fuck do I know and I'm sure the powers that be know completely different, the russians have broken rules and this is war so why not ??Obviously even a tiny bit of risk is too much of a risk with nukes, but personally I don’t think for a split second the Russians have the bollocks to use nuclear weapons.
Putting up a false image of success and strength when there’s fuck all behind it is ingrained into their DNA.
If it were up to me I’d roll into Ukraine with everything Nato has got and end this thing in an afternoon.
I'll bet you,a weekend on the piss in Hamburg.......Germany give this the ok....TODAY. ;)"Germany's defense ministry confirms Poland has applied for formal approval to deliver MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine." (about a dozen)
Ahh, old boring jet discussion will be warmed up again in German media (yawn).
Most 'experts' involved are not even aware what you need air support for.
It won't last long anyway before UA might run out of spares for former russian jets, and western jets (F-16s) will be the logical necessity at some point.
Another Life-of-Brian like discussion...
To be honest we could probably roll into what is currently Ukraine as a peacekeeping force, establish no-fly zones and police the airspace and Russia would back down and probably leave it at that. It would be a huge failure for Putin but it would leave him with no other choice unless he wants to risk direct conflict with the west.Obviously even a tiny bit of risk is too much of a risk with nukes, but personally I don’t think for a split second the Russians have the bollocks to use nuclear weapons.
Putting up a false image of success and strength when there’s fuck all behind it is ingrained into their DNA.
If it were up to me I’d roll into Ukraine with everything Nato has got and end this thing in an afternoon.
DittoI am a wimp and wont watch that video.