A few lads on GoT reckon it's fine and Russia's bluffing Dave, don't worry about it. Just like the were bluffing in 2014, just like they were bluffing in 22 when they warned what they would do if Minsk wasn't applied.
Any person who is not absolutely terrified at how close this is to escalating beyond saving is either a troll, idiot or a psychopath.
People speaking with zero understanding of Russia, it's people or it's psychology. Gas station with nukes etc. strange that it's just moved up to the fourth largest world economy ahead of Germany and Japan this year by the world bank and IMF rankings.
About to coup Putin, really, who exactly, it's quoting from what the neo cons hoped for, same neocons who come February are gone from influence and dho trump has just railed against the other day.
It's kind of surreal - Putin gets called a psychopath on here often, ok so push a psychopath with six thousand nukes into a corner and how does he respond?
Force a coup - who replaces him, if you have ANY idea about the Russian ruling class you'd know Putin is a super moderate.
The only posters on here with a genuine knowledge of Russia and there have been four I most definitely know had that knowledge through family or experience being there - all got shouted down by the guys who seem to think they are moving in some computer game with no consequences.
MAD btw has been referenced just above, it's mutual assured self destruction, the basic premise of why two nuclear super powers never would go to war v each other directly, look at this thread and see just how many of you suggest direct involvement, which in essence we now have, don't you actually realise there is a reason during the cold war neither side directly acted v the other in an overt military sense.
Soon as ATACMS got used inside Russia proper - that became Americans entering targeting coordinates into weapon systems to hit inside Russia, let that sink in and why Russia just responded with the strike they made, its a warning shot to back the [Poor language removed] down. But the GoT warriors want to escalate further - absolutely insane.
Even saw above from Mr 5k let's push Russia into a corner, yeah push a bear into a corner - there's a reason there's an idiom saying never to do that, but hey ho.
