Russian invasion of Ukraine

[BlueAnorak]

Looks like Russia is playing games again, preparing to attack the Ukraine. Another major build up of forces on the border with US intelligence warning it's likely to go hot this time.
Surprised it's taken so long after the US threw Afghanistan to the wolves.

Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies

Tens of thousands of troops massed on the border, Washington officials tell EU counterparts

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[west didsblue]

Looks like Russia is playing games again, preparing to attack the Ukraine. Another major build up of forces on the border with US intelligence warning it's likely to go hot this time.
Surprised it's taken so long after the US threw Afghanistan to the wolves.

Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies

Tens of thousands of troops massed on the border, Washington officials tell EU counterparts

www.telegraph.co.uk

Can see this happening. With Ukraine not yet a NATO member, they will get away with it.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Looks like Russia is playing games again, preparing to attack the Ukraine. Another major build up of forces on the border with US intelligence warning it's likely to go hot this time.
Surprised it's taken so long after the US threw Afghanistan to the wolves.

Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies

Tens of thousands of troops massed on the border, Washington officials tell EU counterparts

www.telegraph.co.uk

Ukraine has been a thorn in the side of Russia ever since the break up of the Soviet Union. Can't help thinking that this is just a smokescreen for Putin to dispatch Zalensky and install a Russian puppet government rather than an actual land grab. It would certainly help tidy up a few Trump era loose ends amongst other things.

Who knows; give it 6 to 12 months and we'll might see the emergence of another 'Hunter Biden's laptop' story... just in time for the US mid-term elections.

 

[inbetween]

Looks like Russia is playing games again, preparing to attack the Ukraine. Another major build up of forces on the border with US intelligence warning it's likely to go hot this time.
Surprised it's taken so long after the US threw Afghanistan to the wolves.

Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies

Tens of thousands of troops massed on the border, Washington officials tell EU counterparts

www.telegraph.co.uk

There's no chance of them going into Ukraine. Even if they did it and there was no military response from anyone else, there would be an economic response and currently they're still tackling the pandemic. Numbers in Russia are supposedly amongst the worst in the world. They cannot afford to be hit hard economically and that's what would happen if they went into Ukraine, couple this with the cost of war and it'd ruin them.

If anything this is all posturing as they're quite a nationalistic country and nothing distracts the population more from how bad things are than flexing your military muscles.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

There's no chance of them going into Ukraine. Even if they did it and there was no military response from anyone else, there would be an economic response and currently they're still tackling the pandemic. Numbers in Russia are supposedly amongst the worst in the world. They cannot afford to be hit hard economically and that's what would happen if they went into Ukraine, couple this with the cost of war and it'd ruin them.

If anything this is all posturing as they're quite a nationalistic country and nothing distracts the population more from how bad things are than flexing your military muscles.

If they did it would be the same strategy as Crimea and limited to the Russian speaking separatist self-declared republics. Personnel wearing uniforms without flags and markings and slow awkward annexation.

 

[BlueAnorak]

There's no chance of them going into Ukraine. Even if they did it and there was no military response from anyone else, there would be an economic response and currently they're still tackling the pandemic. Numbers in Russia are supposedly amongst the worst in the world. They cannot afford to be hit hard economically and that's what would happen if they went into Ukraine, couple this with the cost of war and it'd ruin them.

If anything this is all posturing as they're quite a nationalistic country and nothing distracts the population more from how bad things are than flexing your military muscles.

I think vaccine issues in Russia could precipitate a land grab. They have Western Europe by the balls with gas supplies and with a senile US President at the helm it gives them the opportunity.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I think vaccine issues in Russia could precipitate a land grab. They have Western Europe by the balls with gas supplies and with a senile US President at the helm it gives them the opportunity.

I'd take the so called 'senile' guy over the previous Russian puppet any day of the week.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I'd take the so called 'senile' guy over the previous Russian puppet any day of the week.

Sadly, both were/are shit at their jobs.Trump was a disaster but currently Biden is worse - Somthing I woukd have said was impossible back last October. Sadly events have proven otherwise.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Russia has sent paratroops to the Belarus/Poland border now, ratcheting up the pressure.

British troops helping Poland to fortify border with Belarus

It comes as Moscow sends paratroopers to conduct drills on the other side of the frontier with Minsk's soldiers

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Sadly, both were/are shit at their jobs.Trump was a disaster but currently Biden is worse - Somthing I woukd have said was impossible back last October. Sadly events have proven otherwise.

Not wishing to hijack the thread with US politics, but why do you think Biden is worse?