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 November 21 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.

[red750]

'World War 3 has begun'

 

Terrifying warning from Ukraine's former military chief who says North Korea, Iran and China are now openly standing beside Putin

 

Ukraine's former military chief has warned that World War Three is already underway - with Vladimir Putin's autocratic allies, North Korea, Iran and China, openly supporting his forces on the battlefield.

 

Valery Zaluzhny, who is now Ukraine's envoy to the United Kingdom, told the UP100 award ceremony in Kyiv: 'I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun.'

 

The General said that as of this year, 'Ukraine is no longer facing Russia. Soldiers from North Korea are standing in front of Ukraine.'

 

Read more here

[red750]

Putin: his days are numbered

 

Vladimir Putin could be ousted from power if he attacked the U.S. or the U.K, an expert argues.

 

This week, the Russian president threatened the two Western nations after Washington and London approved Ukraine's use of their long-range missiles to strike targets on Russian soil.

 

Vladimir Putin claimed he could now target London or Washington with his missiles in response.

 

However, security expert Nicholas Drummond told the Daily Express that Vladimir Putin would never follow through with such an action. According to the expert, Russia's powerful elite would stop him from sparking a new world war.

 

He said: "Putin has a very strong grip on power in Russia. He would be very difficult to remove. He is revered in Russia after that chaotic period of the Soviet Union. That is what gave him such a strong power base. 

 

"But if he is seen to be doing something reckless, the kingmakers among the oligarchs could rise against him. There could be civil war in Russia. China will play a role too, because China does not want a world war. China has not committed any serious act of aggression in a long time," he added to the British media.

[red750]

Russia aims to wipe out US missile base

 

Russia has announced that it has identified a U.S. military base housing missiles in Poland as a potential target.

 

The Kremlin considers the military complex in the city of Redzikowo, near the Baltic Sea, to be a provocation, particularly after Washington recently authorized Ukraine to use its long-range ATACMS missiles against targets in Russia.

 

The base, originally opened in 2009, was officially inaugurated this November as part of a broad air defense program established by NATO in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

"This is another frankly provocative step in a series of deeply destabilising actions by the Americans and their allies in the North Atlantic Alliance in the strategic sphere," Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry’s spokeswoman, said.

 

"This leads to undermining strategic stability, increasing strategic risks and, as a result, to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger," she added.

 

This week, Vladimir Putin revealed that Russia had launched an intermediate-range intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine, emphasizing that he would not hesitate to continue such actions if Russia were struck again.

 

In addition to Washington, London has also authorized Kyiv to deploy Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory.

[red750]

UK's Top General Breaks Down Putin's Reluctance to Attack NATO

 

Analysts are examining the factors that have prevented Russian President Vladimir Putin from escalating the invasion of Ukraine into a wider international conflict.

 

View slideshow here

[red750]

China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official

 

China is increasingly uncomfortable about North Korea’s engagement with Russia and finds the growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow unnerving, Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state has said.

 

He was leaning into a growing debate among the US’s security partners in Asia on whether China supports the decision of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to send 10,000 troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It is said the North Korean troops are now inside Russia.

 

There are also doubts in the Japanese foreign ministry that China supports North Korea’s dispatch of troops. Officials say China has largely been silent over the issue, and may be worried that the military collusion in Ukraine will help an American drive to form a network of alliances with South Korea and Japan in east Asia that Beijing already views as aimed at curbing its power.

 

In a rare olive branch China has told Japan it intends to remove a buoy it installed inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone near the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Although the step is small, the islands are a flashpoint between Japan and China, and it is seen as symbolic of an effort to encourage those inside Japan that do not want to be drawn into a US-led conflict with China.

 

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