Sanctions against Russia

[facthunter]

Medvedev has always been the Biggest Ranter of extreme threats There's nothing new in that. How many Ruskies  speak "Litle Rocket Man's tok  tok"?   Nev

[willedoo]

Medvedev is an alcoholic, he's rarely sober.

[kgwilson]

He always looks pissed. I have never seen him look anything near sober.

[facthunter]

Russians are KNOW for  it. Remember Yeltsin?   Russians pass out on the  steps and wake up frozen to death. Nev

[Marty_d]

While I take your meaning, I would pedantically argue that not one Russian has ever woken up frozen to death.

[facthunter]

It's not like you to be pedantic.. it's a bit like some of those IRISH Jokes.  Nev

[Marty_d]

Vodka doesn't freeze, so their bloodstream should be ok.

[pmccarthy]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Russians are KNOW for  it. Remember Yeltsin?   Russians pass out on the  steps and wake up frozen to death. Nev

On the steps on the steppes.

[kgwilson]

Putin is a dictator who would really like to be a Tsar of a revised Russian Empire that would include all the republics lost in 1990. No Russian dictator has ever given a toss about how many Russians die so long as it fulfills his aims.  Putin is also like Trump, a complete and utter malignant narcissist. That's why they seem to get along though Putin is all over Trump like a cheap suit.

[willedoo]

Speaking of cheap suits, here's Medvedev dancing in his blue suit. At least Yeltsin was amusing, Medvedev is a total dick.

 

 

[willedoo]

He's never lived this one down.

 

[willedoo]

Boris Yeltsin got up to some legendary antics at times. Like the time when he produced it on the tarmac in the USA. He was visiting the US and was fairly tanked when he was leaving. Walking (or staggering) across to his plane, he stopped, flopped it out, and p*ssed on the tarmac in front of everyone. He had a certain style about him.

[nomadpete]

2 hours ago, willedoo said:

and p*ssed on the tarmac in front of everyone. He had a certain style about him.

Was that a subtle parting political comment?

[red750]

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces fire intercontinental ballistic missile for first time, Kyiv claims

 

Russia has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, Kyiv has claimed as two British-made Storm Shadow missiles are shot down in Russian airspace.

 

Russia had threatened to strike Kyiv with a “massive” new missile in retaliation for Ukraine using Western weapons.

 

The Russian military could be readying to launch RS-26 Rubezh missile, an intermediate ground-based missile which has not been deployed in the Ukraine war before from a site in the city of Astrakhan by the Caspian Sea, reported a Moscow-based newspaper Moskovky Komsomolets.

 

This comes as Russian air defences shot down two British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Russia’s defence ministry said as momentum builds in the West’s military support for Kyiv’s war effort.

The British-made missile – which Kyiv has been lobbying to use beyond Russia’s borders for months – was fired at Russia on Wednesday, with images published by Russian military bloggers purporting to show Storm Shadow fragments in Russia’s Kursk region, beyond Ukraine’s northeastern border.

 

Read more, plus related stories, and video here

[nomadpete]

 Russia has not used any ICBMs until now.

They clearly don't mind openly targetting Ukrainian civillians.

They clearly don't  care how many Russians die in a 'meat grinder'.

 

They have plenty of ICBMs. But they witheld them until now. Had they used these in the early stages of the invasion, even with conventional warheads, it would all be over years ago.

 

Have they simply been using the war to taunt the USA and NATO? I mean, as well as trying to reinvent the old USSR?

 

 

Edited Thursday at 07:59 PM by nomadpete
Even one letter in the wrong place ....

[facthunter]

LIFE is CHEAP in$#!thouse Countries..  Nev

[willedoo]

The way that article reads nobody has used ICBMs. The Russians are claiming to have combat tested a mid range hypersonic missile and Zelensky was quoted as saying the Russians fired missiles 'matching the speed and altitude of an ICBM'. You can have a missile matching the speed and altitude of an ICBM but if you don't have intercontinental range it's a mid range missile and not an ICBM. Another aspect is that it would be a waste of ICBMs to use them at such short range as the Caspian Sea to Ukraine when mid range missiles are easily within range capability.

[nomadpete]

Ukraine initially claimed it was an ICBM. Apparently not.

 

I was thinking that the russians could have used long range missiles (with bigger payloads?) Which could be launched from locations safely out of range of Ukrainian weapons.

What range does a 'intermediate' missile have?

[nomadpete]

The ruskies only need to step back to the limit of British-made Storm Shadow missiles and the US equivalents.

[willedoo]

11 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

What range does a 'intermediate' missile have?

Short range up to 1,000 klm

Medium range 1,000 to 3,000

Intermediate range 3,000 to 5,500

Intercontinental more that 5,500.