War in Ukraine

"The United States and Western allies sought to cripple Russia's banking sector and currency Saturday with an extraordinary set of sanctions punishing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Taking measures unprecedented against a country of Russia's size and international stature, the allies cut selected banks from the SWIFT system, rendering them isolated from the rest of the world.

They hobbled the Russian central bank's ability to use reserves to support the already sinking ruble, which a senior US official said will now "go into freefall."

And they warned that a task force will "hunt down" the "yachts, jets, fancy cars and luxury homes" owned around the world by oligarchs in President Vladimir Putin's ultra-wealthy inner circle, the US official said."

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"Sanctioning Russia’s central bank is likely to have a dramatic effect on the Russian economy and its banking system, Elina Ribakova, deputy chief economist for the Institute of International Finance, said before the latest round of penalties was announced. “This would likely lead to massive bank runs and dollarization, with a sharp sell-off, drain on reserves -- and, possibly, a full-on collapse of Russia’s financial system.”

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Not an ex-con. Just worked with a bunch of them.
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Two reasons:
Dispersion of assets makes them more secure. Most of the Russian land based missiles are mobile (unless you believe they have operational hypersonics) because they like moving them around so much. Our accuracy on our independently targeted and manuevering multiple warhead missiles is now less than a yard and that makes them really nervous.

Second reason is political in several ways. First if you're Poland or one of the Baltics it's disconcerting when the missiles are on your border (3 minute flight times versus 6 mins if they're in Russia. It's why Russia has always hated the Turks for letting us first base ICBMs there and later Pershings.
Another political reason is that when an ally let's you put nukes there, and you trust them enough to put the nukes there, it demonstrates a "special relationship." After the Kazakstan fiasco, Putin wants somebody that looks like they're standing side by side with Russia. He's realizing he has gotten killed in the PR war.

And I would be flabbergasted if Putin used tactical nukes. Even the Chinese would go crazy because they would see that as making it easier for us to use tactical nukes to defend Taiwan. Not to mention they are downwind of Ukraine.
They would be morons to put nukes in Belarus. However the evidence to date in this shows they are morons.

Yes they have mobile launchers. But they can disperse in Russia easier than Belarus. And range isn’t an issue either.

Either way they let one fly an US Aegis equipped vessels in the Black Sea shoot them down with SM-3’s
 
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They would be morons to put nukes in Belarus. However the evidence to date in this shows they are morons.

Yes they have mobile launchers. But they can disperse in Russia easier than Belarus. And range isn’t an issue either.

Either way they let one fly an US Aegis equipped vessels in the Black Sea shoot them down with SM-3’s

Mobile Russian Nuke Launchers you say?

Checkmate Pootin.


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I am betting that their special forces are equivalent to our National guard reserves in terms of effectiveness.....ok, not even anywhere near that good. Russia is much weaker than previously thought. This makes me happy.

Xi got be scratching his head “this is my dumbass partner in crime”.
 
They would be morons to put nukes in Belarus. However the evidence to date in this shows they are morons.

Yes they have mobile launchers. But they can disperse in Russia easier than Belarus. And range isn’t an issue either.

Either way they let one fly an US Aegis equipped vessels in the Black Sea shoot them down with SM-3’s

Would be suicide. England and France have 500 nukes between them. Nukes are nothing more than a gaudy ring on ones hand. No one will ever use them anymore.
 
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