RE: Ukriane13 Sep 2024 10:49
Fordm, anyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge re Russian/Ukrainian history ftom the 10th century onwards knows the relationship, linguistically, geographically, socially and emotionally.
Emotionally, especially after the Soviet inspired famine of the 1930'.
Didn't Russia via the Budapest memorandum guarantee Ukrainian sovereignty if they gave up their nuclear weapons?
Now, seriously, a 3 day special operation beginning 22nd February 2022 and here we are today.
So many Putin, Medvedev and other cretinious Russian officials stating repeated red lines re tactical nuclear warfare usuage lol.
Russia can't take the Ukraine.
Poland would absolutely wipe the floor with Russia in a conventional exchange, can you imagine taking on Nato itself.
Ermm, you use the analogy of salt and sugar.
Yep, US, UK and French, strategic and tactical nuclear weapons.
The Soviet Union fragmented in 1990, the analogue era, their boomer class submarines are rotting in the Northern and Pacific fleet graveyards and their surface fleet utterly useless.
There strategic bombers wouldn't get 200 miles airborne.
That leaves their strategic missile silos
There analogue missiles, have they upgraded them to digital?
Have they serviced them?
If do, in the last 34 years, where and when were the upgraded test flights.
Ermm, if I was a Russian General, I'd be very very skeptical of a launch authority, will it launch, will it get jammed?
If it hits, my homeland is dead.
Even the UK on it's own has between 48 and 62 MIRV's on each of it's 4 Tridents.
That's a potential 248 cities and massive infrastructure targets.
So ford, you know all of the aforementioned but still have a soft spot for Putin.
You related to any of the Cambridge 5 by any chance.