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Konashenkov said the Russian move was being made “in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas,’” an eastern area home to two separatist regions that Russia has declared sovereign.
The claim of a withdrawal to concentrate on Donetsk is similar to the justification Russia gave for pulling back its forces from the Kyiv region earlier this year when they failed to take the capital.
Igor Girkin, a Russian who was an early leader of a Moscow-backed separatist uprising in Donetsk in 2014, sneered at the portrayal of the pullback being strategic. On the messaging app Telegram, he acidly called it “the brilliant (clearly within the framework of the plan and even ahead of schedule) operation to transfer the cities of Izyum, Balakliya and Kupiansk to respected Ukrainian partners.”
Pootin remains a master strategist!!!
During an interview with Bloomberg News, De Croo warned:
“The risk of that is de-industrialization and severe risk of fundamental social unrest.”Like a number of other EU leaders, who are rapidly diverging from Brussels bureaucrats on the path forward, the Belgium leader warns against unilateral action against Russia, urging
“I honestly do not see any other choice than doing market interventions,” De Croo said. “We don’t get a second chance to prove as 450 million Europeans that we take things in our hands. What you are seeing today is a massive drainage of prosperity out of the European Union.”Specifically, Belgium’s federal government is calling for introducing broad price caps on gas markets rather than just on Russian imports “because Vladimir Putin already said that he would stop selling gas.”
"What you are seeing today is a massive drainage of prosperity out of the European Union," De Cross concluded.
“A cap on Russian gas only is a purely political objective,” Belgium’s energy minister doubled-down on De Croo's warnings, adding that Belgium “will not agree to this” as it did not “see the added value in that.”
your take seems to be that it doesn't matter what ukraine does because Putin will eventually use tactical nukes if hes being pushed out. if that isn't your take, then you haven't been paying attentionThe "strategy" you speak of existed before Putin was moonlighting as a taxi cab driver. There is no winning there.
I don't think he thought the United States would give him a shot at Europe. I think there will be enough supply for this year but its coming at a very high cost. The real war is now onto Europe, we'll see how it turns out but it hard to imagine how next year looks if this continues.
'No Choice But Intervention': Belgium PM Fears "Severe Risk Of Social Unrest"
Its going to be interesting to see how long they think a printing press is going to solve a supply problem. The REAL problem is, they are not even identifying the problem.... the problem will take a couple of decades to fix, if they don't want to go back to living in caves.
your take seems to be that it doesn't matter what ukraine does because Putin will eventually use tactical nukes if hes being pushed out. if that isn't your take, then you haven't been paying attention
theyve ruled out the use of nukes in ukraine.That's the Russian strategy for 30+ years, funny, you claim others are not paying attention. I seriously doubt they change their strategy now, a little late for that. Its not Putin's strategy, it was Russian's strategy since he was moonlighting as a taxi cab driver.
None of this is new.
Onto Europe. <--------- This is the real war.
Watch it ape! You’re questioning the master you’re about to join the club!theyve ruled out the use of nukes in ukraine.
your mindset is in step with their media's attempt to make the russian population complicit in nuclear blackmail against the west. its a ****** look on anyone, and you wear it proudly
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is not considering turning to nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, and reiterated Moscow's stance that the use of such capabilities would only follow a "threat for existence."No they didn't they even reaffirmed when they would use nukes the other day. I posted it.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is not considering turning to nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, and reiterated Moscow's stance that the use of such capabilities would only follow a "threat for existence."
Per Reuters, he stressed Russia's official position, explaining that nuclear arms could only be used in "response to weapons of mass destruction or a conventional weapons attack that threatened the existence of the Russian state."
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Gen. Valery Zaluzhny stated "There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces." He wrote this in an op-ed published by state run outlet Ukrinform, with the alarming words being picked up by The Washington Post and others.
so your stance is the kremlin is inconsistent and dishonest. or you yourself are complicit in nuclear blackmail. congrats!They are not going to allow foreign forces the ability to invade in mass at, in, or around the border. You don't land nukes on your own territory, you do it on the idiot's territory. That's the whole purpose of a clear Ukraine from troops, no ability to immediately invade Russia.
This can mean anything. Of course, its probably somewhat of a last option, or until you have X number of conventional weapon losses.
But no there is win here for the Ukraine. Russia's whole strategy is to nuke enemies before they get to the border in mass hence why the Ukraine exists.
so your stance is the kremlin is inconsistent and dishonest. or you yourself are complicit in nuclear blackmail. congrats!
with modern icbms every country in this world is under constant existential threat, you dope. even without them there are enough nuclear subs in the Atlantic to reduce Moscow to cinders many many many times over. There is no added threat.Honest, they've been saying for 30+ ****ing years what they plan on doing, its not a secret.
with modern icbms every country in this world is under constant existential threat, you dope. even without them there are enough nuclear subs in the Atlantic to reduce Moscow to cinders many many many times over. There is no added threat.
when did i say they were going to use icbms? try to catch up.That is what their tactical nuclear force is for. LOL They're not going to use icbms you dope. LOL They are called tactical nukes.
when did i say they were going to use icbms? try to catch up.
Getting spanked for putting your hand in the cookie jar too many times is NOT an existential threat. That threat already exists, if we're talking theoretically. If we're not speaking theoretically, then russia being driven out of another nations borders is NOT an existential threat.