"The significant escalation of tensions came as Germany, Britain and other NATO countries said they were sending military aid to Ukraine and imposed hard-hitting financial sanctions against Russia, including the president himself. 'Western countries are taking not only unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, I mean here illegitimate sanctions that everyone knows about. But the top officials of leading NATO countries are also allowing aggressive statements against our country,' he said, in a statement reported by the Russian news agency, Tass. 'Therefore, I order the minister of defence and the chief of the general staff to transfer the deterrent forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.' According to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which was updated in 2020, it can carry out first-strike attacks if it has 'reliable information' about the launch of ballistic missiles targeting its territory.... Speaking on Wednesday night, before the first dawn assaults by Russian airborne troops, tanks and cruise missiles, he warned that 'whoever tries to hinder us' would see consequences 'you have never seen in your history.'"
From "Putin puts nuclear deterrent forces on high alert" (London Times).
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Good thing Biden is in Delaware where he is safe and there is plenty of ice cream.
Just as I predicted - the strongly worded letter from Biden has rattled Putin.
One more letter like that and Putin will either fold or initiate a nuclear war.
So, what price is Europe willing to pay?
Putin will use a Nuke and blame Ukraine.
Hillary will crawl in bed with the Russians, and concoct a story that it's really Trump.
See the pattern?
He'd be dumb if he didn't.
This isn't the USSR. This isn't Soviet hardliners seeking to dominate the world through the spread of communist ideology.
The west does not know how far Putin will go, but The Kremlin knows how far they will allow Putin to go.
Only one side in this conflict understands the Principle of War called "Initiative" and it isn't us.
Biden's clown show has been caught flat-footed at every step in this conflict, again and again.
He's getting schooled, and Dems are too stupid to see it. Point it out and these accuse you of being pro-Putin. No, shit-for-brains. We're pro-victory, and pro-deterrence.
One Damn Thing After Another Which Wouldn’t be Happening Now if the Election Hadn’t Been Fucking Stolen from Trump.
This will ease tensions...There are some downsides to thermonuclear wars, but look at the big picture. There will be far less carbon emissions after such an event and Greta Thunberg's troubled soul will find peace.
I'm so old, I remember when the Cold War was over and there was no chance the Russians would ever nuke anybody.
"...officials of leading NATO countries are also allowing aggressive statements against our country."
So Putin threatens nuclear war because they are saying mean things about him.
Hope he doesn’t nuke Bordeaux.
People keep using this word "deterrent," but this is not what it means.
This is at best provocation, certainly aggressive, and not to be dismissed as a precursor to actual use.
I know it’s a very high-stakes game, but I still call BS on Vlad on this one.
Time to brush-up our survivalist knowledge.
Link to clip of a Joe Rogan interview with Dr. Bradley Gerret.
It's N-word free. No worries.
Launch On Warning has been russian doctrine since before i got kicked out of Civil Air Patrol
Heck! LOW was russian doctrine before i was even IN CAP
Cornered Rat Syndrome.
Not looking good for Putin.
Neither he nor President PoopyPants expected Ukraine to put up a fight like this.
Zelensky is going to have some nice things to say and a surprising amount of credibility coming out of this.
Hard to imagine the Russians stranding vehicles do to running out of gas. There are going to be a lot of Generals in the Russian army leaving service one way or another after this.
Sounds like something the hotline was made for. Is he trying to establish Biden as the mediator?
Oh great, another Little Rocket Man.
I hope they have hidden Biden's Button.
Here's hoping Putin is left with a 50 mile DMZ starting at his former border and going towards Moscow after the end of this conflict. But I doubt it.
Biden staying in DC this weekend may not have been necessary as far as decision-making goes, but it sure looks crappy. And he should have been more specific with Putin about what they meant by "minor incursion.'
Has Zelensky been smeared by the leftist media like Viktor Orban of Hungary and President Trump? There was so much talk of him being a tyrant that arrested his opposition and shut down the press. Now, having seen the man's patriotism and fighting spirit, I wonder if any of it is true or if it's just more Leftist propaganda.
They are about to announce talks over a ceasefire.
It is all over international news.
It was fun while it lasted.
It would be easier for Putin to stop selling oil and gas to NATO countries.
The NATO countries won’t stop buying it from Putin on their own.
The good news is that Putin is getting his ass handed to him in the Ukraine.
The bad news is that Putin is getting his ass handed to him in the Ukraine.
Maybe the examination of the voting machines blocked by the Soros crowd would tell a tale here. Vlad knows not to fuck with Poopy Joe! He's heard about Corn Pop's ass whoopin!
I'm so old I remember that Trump was gonna start WWIII.
Instead, we had peace in Europe, peace in the Middle East, prosperity at home.
How boring...
Seriously have to wonder if the russian military would follow his orders to launch nukes, just because someone has said some mean things to Putin.
There was an episode in the cold war (my war. Hey, you think that wasn't tough?) when the Soviets did give the order to launch when they thought they detected a single missile heading their way from the west. Those in the final stages of the launch cycle refused to cary out the order, reasoning that if a nuclear attack was acutally underway there would be hundreds of missiles coming in, not just one. They prevented a nuclear exchange.
Hopefully that same mentality survives in the Russian missile force today. Their mission is deterrence--if they ever launch then they have failed in their mission.
Can’t anyone get close enough to Litvienko Putin? Doesn’t he have a kink? Fishing even?
Guess the spooks are too busy pursuing Americans…
Man you people are stuck on stupid.
Seriously, don't mock Biden anymore because you ain't that much better.
This isn't a fucking joke.
DrSquid mentions an incident during the Cold War, when I was a buttress of the US military by supporting it from the outside.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, IIRC, a Soviet submarine officer refused to sign off on a nuclear torpedo launch that his captain wanted to initiate.
Use of nukes--even 'tactical' nukes--or chem will be a threshold very few Russian officers relish crossing, and we have no reason to think that these Russians don't love their children as much as the Commies did.
Putin is no Bonaparte, he's a second-rate Fouche. Totally different skillsets.
Sounds sort of like the threats made by Trump’s other buddy, that guy from North Korea, the one that wrote Trump love letters.
Ha, another peace keeping mission. Hopefully, it will be more successful than Clinton's invasions and separatist policy, Obama's forays into coups, Springs and world war, Biden's sellout for personal change, and the UN's infamous democratic Choice of shared responsibility, twilight and avoidance, and progressive corruption.
Note to post-coup Kiev: 32 trimesters, no reconciliation, no remediation, democracy dies in darkness, it's over. Don't bight the hand that keeps the peace. There may still be a chance to avoid the Libyan affair, the Syrian gambit, the Afghan progression, and the Kosovo solution.
Sounds like Trump is giving Putin lines.
you have never seen in your history
Has Zelensky been smeared by the leftist media like Viktor Orban of Hungary and President Trump? There was so much talk of him being a tyrant that arrested his opposition and shut down the press.
That may have been his predecessor as Zelenskyy was elected in 2019.
Yesterday, someone doubted my comment about the Kaiser not knowing his army's only plans were to attack France in the event of Russian mobilization.
Here's a second historian I found today saying essentially that in the Q&A after an undergrad/HS lecture:
Margaret McMillan
"Agressive statements" ?
Is that a paraphrase of "Mean Tweets" ?
Imagine believing that if Biden were elected we’d get “boring”.
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Sounds sort of like the threats made by Trump’s other buddy, that guy from North Korea, the one that wrote Trump love letters.
I see Inga is back and as dumb as ever. You are still buying the Trump-Putin story in spite of everything ?
McMillan is great, I've read several of her books. The issue is still a bit obscure--the difference between Wilhelm knowing that the plan to attack in the West existed, and not knowing what else was or wasn't planned.
I'll see what I can find, but accept that I may be entirely mistaken.
Notice that that guy in North Korea stopped lobbing missiles over Japan when Trump was POTUS, was this a bad thing? Putin didn't go on any rampages when Trump was president, was that a bad thing?
Narr, I may not have stated it correctly yesterday. Dr. Michael Neiberg, who has a bunch of entertaining lectures (several at the WWI museum in Kansas) online, said the Kaiser told von Moltke the Younger, "Your uncle would not have given me that answer." I assume someone wrote that down at the time. It's possible the General Staff was forcing the Kaiser's hand to attack France.
Belarus will renounce its non-nuclear and neutral status, allowing Russia to place nuclear weapons on its territory, as a result of the referendum held today.
65.16% of citizens allegedly supported these constitutional amendments.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498087626544492552
Multiple sources say the decision has been made — and as soon as on Feb. 28 at 5 a.m. local time, the first Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft is very likely to take off carrying Belarusian paratroopers to be deployed against Ukraine.
twitter.com/KyivIndependent
The only leader that looks worse than Putin right now is Biden.
Both of them just shit their pants.
Both of their regimes are flailing and mortally wounded.
Everytime we buy a gallon of gas we help Putin send more rockets into Ukraine.
Thanks Biden voters. No wonder your mittens are sewn to your coat sleeves.
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