We’ve been hearing this for years.
I am ready to have a hot confrontation with a pack of rabid hyenas.
…actually, that didn’t sound right.
you know what? I’ll just leave.
Interesting that this comes at a time when resistance against raising the military budget us growing. That must be a total coincidence…
Putin is testing for years how far he can go. He uses salami tactics on NATO for ages.
A bit of sabotage here, planes and drones flying in or over NATO territory, ghost ships and shadow fleets doing crimes, disturbing GPS, etc, etc, etc.
Half his military has blown up in Ukraine.
He still has the dangerous bits. The question is, though, how dangerous they still are…
I don’t think they work anymore. I would have thought he would have used a small one by now especially after Ukraine made advances into Russian territory.
But what the fuck do I know, I’m just a guy front of a monitor speculating on things I’m not qualified to speculate on.
I think the vast majority will just fizzle. Still, it is a risk with the few that might work.
They’ve done that for literally forever yeah. Not something new exactly
Russia will have their asses handed to them.
A bunch of European businesses are still doing business with Russia, so doubt it’s true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
Money comes first
Remember that they want Europe to be afraid and stockpile material that otherwise would go to ukraine.
It’s time for you guys to decide whether you want direct war with Russia or not. Imagining that they aren’t ready for it, and this is just a diversion, is seriously risky. I’m nervous with how Europeans are getting bolder the more Ukraine fails to fulfil its military objectives. Nobody is doing more than doubling down on political narratives that were dry in 2022.
Why is it always a .ml account with the shit takes?
Didn’t watch 🤷🏻
Yes you did
You have a poster in the room with Putin on the horse, don’t you?
And a life-size Putin cuddle cushion
Do you find your “work” fulfilling?
No one finds your Russian BS fulfilling and it’s also work to read it.
Silly kid, trying to fill out the “free space” on his bingo twice. You’re not too clever are you?
I can tell you don’t read Ukrainian newspapers by your blind dismissal of any military shortcomings. They bicker about it constantly. Why do you think Zaluzhny as exiled?
When i want to exhile my political oponents i also put them as ambassador to one of my main alies.
You clearly don’t understand how organizational hierarchies work. In his position as ambassador he has zero leverage on military strategy, as he did in his military position. Why do you think he was removed from decisionmaking and the country itself?
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Oh is that what was implied? You’re so cute.
How are the fuel lines at this moment ? Got enough to go to work today ?
They are doing fine, they maintain a large reserve, 3 times larger reserves of diesel and crude, 22% of refineries sit idle normally, and the drone attacks penetrating are causing inconsistent damage, at most shutting places down for a week or two. Gas tank explosions look big, but it’s apparently not hard to fix. Who knew refineries planned for fuel accidents? I digress. Friend of mine just did a detailed breakdown of what exactly the damage being done to Russia’s gasoline refinement is, what the reserves are, and what escalation options Russia has postponed until now. You should be concerned about the ability to keep trading blows like this. I know you love watching Ukraine getting fucked up, but I hate seeing good infrastructure go to waste. They waited to start hitting gas infrastructure until January, remember that. There was a real hope the rail and pipelines might keep flowing to Europe.
“f me right wing dictator,…f me!” –some tankie with said poster on the wall.
Wrong, that is what Europe is saying “Little Borat” (you love Mossad propaganda so much you named your reply guy account after it, hmmm), they have determined the best way to avoid war with Russia is provocation. Keep shaking your dainty little ass at them and just hope America saves you. After all, NATO is the sword, and the sword’s shield. 😂
Define “ready”, Martin Jaeger. They’re second best in Ukraine, so it can’t be in terms of capacity to win.
If you disregard ability to win, any one of us is technically ready to attack Europe.
When they are under the Phutatorius Law, I will demand tributes of charcuterie, stinky cheese and Belgian monk beer. Also some good doctors and personal trainers to keep me from becoming too much of a lard-ass while enjoying the spoils.
I have an army of 1 with a water pistol ready to annex Switzerland
You’d have a better chance than most armies, because they might actually let you in like that.
Nah, too late, they blew the bridges and tunnels in before he finished saying “Switzerland”.
Watch out Europe, I’m coming, and I demand tribute in quality cheeses!
Hey, I’d like to join your army.
Excellent, I’m basically a taller Napoleon now. I just need a million more or so.
(Yes, I know he was average for the time)
Gotta think though: more troops means less fine cheese per head. I suggest keeping it to a small but ruthless cheese extraction squad.
Welcome, we’ll gladly share!
They still have their usual ‘wunderwaffle’ to roll out - Waves of Humans and zero care for human lives.
Russia is as dangerous now as Japan was in WW2.
Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.
Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.
This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.
Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.
Also, their foreign trade is going down the shitter because their ability to export fossil fuels has been heavily curtailed by Ukraine.
Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.
Oh hell yeah. I know where I’m going for breakfast in the morning.
Only things they’re really good at are propaganda and disinformation.
I mean this was true 20 years ago, it wasn’t as obvious before they invaded Georgia in 2008 (let alone now), but multi decade research (including research that accounts for preference falsification) has clearly shown a consistent level of support among a strong majority of russian society for genocidal imperialism.
Propaganda works.
Russian society’s genuine love for genocidal imperialism has nothing to do with propaganda (if that’s what you were referring to).
Mind you, they are fully capable of change, they just don’t want to and have no incentive to do (Westerners enabling and promoting their victim-hood narratives only contributes to this).
Russian society’s genuine love for genocidal imperialism has nothing to do with propaganda (if that’s what you were referring to).
Oh, I’d venture that propaganda is one big contributor to that sentiment, even if the sentiment has been present for a very long time (certainly since WW2). Old horseshit is still horseshit.
Look at American exceptionalism as another example of long-standing unfounded belief that’s exploited by many factions of that country’s ruling elite.
As I said, I don’t buy the propaganda excuse. Independent information sources (in russian) have always been easily available and accessible by all (literally in under 10 seconds). Just look at the creation dates of the DW Russian or BBC Russian YT channels (or even their own TV Dozdh). By mid 2010s YT was widely available not only on desktop, but even on smartphones. Not to mention russians full well know what the KGB is like and how dishonest they are.
Let me give you an illustrative example.
You have Vladimir Kara-murza, darling of the west, went to jail for public opposition to the full scale invasion, western educated and with UK citizenship. And yet here is a recent statement from Kara-Murza:
There is another reason why the Russian Defense Ministry recruits so many members of ethnic minorities [to fight in the war against Ukraine]: as it turns out, because it is psychologically really difficult for [ethnic] Russians to kill Ukrainians. Because we are one people. We are very close peoples, as everybody knows. We have nearly the same language, the same religion, and centuries of history in common. But if it’s someone from another culture, allegedly it’s easier [for them to kill Ukrainians]. I hadn’t really thought about it before. I thought the reasons were primarily economic. But after what [a colleague who spoke about the Buryats] said, I started thinking about it too.
He said this in a speech to the French senate, no less!
We are not on people and I want nothing to with any of them, be it putin or Vladimir Kara-Murza.
And yet WaPo decided to give him the opportunity to write another bullshit article about russian victimhood and innocence.
Putin’s anxiety is understandable. The Kremlin knows that public opposition to the Ukraine war is much greater than what its propaganda would admit.
Is Vladimir Kara-Murza under the influence of propaganda while living in the west?
Agreed regarding the negative elements of American exceptionalism. But people in the US have a spectrum of views and the US has had a measure of dynamism in terms of social attitudes. The same cannot be said about the overwhelming majority of russians.
Germans say Russia plans to invade any day, likely tomorrow.
uh huh, Germany to annex poland when?
lots of fucking cretins in this thread smdh
Curious how he defines “ready”.
Ready to fuck around. Not ready to find out.
Threatening and posturing to destabilize Europe and NATO, while going heavily on grey zone warfare and divisive misinformation campaigns. At the top, should not want any kinetic warfare against NATO, but rhetoric, ‘yes’ men, and arrogance may make some think they can and should.
That’s Putin, always claiming he’s got a royal flush even when just holding a pair to try to intimidate the opponent into folding. It’s the same every time.
Saddest part is his grand strategy is literally open source, i.e. “Foundations of Geopolitics”, written by a Russian ultra nationalist, taught in Russian military academy’s. Main points are weakening NATO and US by supporting internal strife and divisions, allowing Russia to take back its “land” and sphere of influence.
Top many willing useful idiots for them to use. . .
I read that book, boy it’s a steaming crock of shit. They are following the worst book second to mein kampf that has soo many misconceptions that you really get a sense on why Russia is such a shithole.
So: divide and rule, and do as much imperialism as they can get away with.
Guy must be some kinda fuckin’ genius.
Also and as somebody else pointed out, if makes sense for him to try and scare European nations so that they refrain from sending as many weapons and ammo to Ukraine because of thinking they might need those to defend themselves from Russia.
So a sabble-rattling discourse and even the recent air-space intrusions by Russian military planes are cheap ways of trying to get the strategical gain of Ukraine receiving fewer weapons from the rest of Europe and even if those things fail he loses nothing from doing them (at this point, he’s hardly going to get in a worst situation than he already put himself in).
It makes absolute sense to pursue a strategy where at best you gain something and at worst you lose nothing.
Now, if the response to the Russian intrusion in European airspace had been for European nations to set up and enforce a no fly for Russia inside Ukraine, that would’ve definitelly been a loss for him (at the very least the rest of Europe would protect Western Ukraine from Russian drones and air assets, freeing Ukranian assets to be used elsewhere), but the leaderships of European nations have yet to show a willingness or capability to act decisivelly like that as a group: even the help with weapons and ammo took ages to get going properly, was riddled with “red lines” (like “no tanks”, then “no jets”, then “no long range cruise missiles” and who could forget the whole “can’t be used against Russian territory” artificial limitation) and there was a lot of feet-dragging, especially from Germany) so actual direct intervention even if only with air assets doesn’t seem likely as response to “mere” Russian air space intrusions and unconventional warfare that can be denied (cyber attacks, election interference, support for extreme political forces, cutting of undersea cables and so on).
Yeah, but that’s kind of what they’re already doing, in which case it’s not news. He’s implying they have some nebulous new kind of readiness.
Maybe they do, maybe he’s just trying to get everyone on board with rearming. Which I guess is a good idea in any case.
