Russia Ukraine: War soon?

[Jeff]

Helping Iran with nukes really shows they don't care about Israel.
Does anyone actually think they have good intentions about nuclear power?

[Jeff]

BREAKING: Biden set to ban all Russian oil imports, including natural gas.

"Russia Threatens To Send Oil Prices To $300 Per Barrel Or Higher If West Bans Oil Imports"

FJB!

[gcode]

Helping Iran with nukes really shows they don't care about Israel.
Does anyone actually think they have good intentions about nuclear power?

see this thread
Bribery or Blackmail

[Leehound]

[mayday]

Newb,
are you safe if the nuclear plants blow?

[Del.]

Newb,
are you safe if the nuclear plants blow?

As long as he applies sun screen.

[Del.]

Truth be, I'm praying for the asteroid of doom.
I need cheering up!

Me too and hope it hits me directly. Don't want to have to limp away waiting for electric ambulance .

[RobertELee]

Newb,
are you safe if the nuclear plants blow?

Sounds like Kamala has competition now.

[gcode]

Recent Russian state media narratives have built upon a long-running Kremlin information operation to falsely claim that Ukraine, the United States, and NATO are plotting a chemical or radiological attack on Russia or Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. Russia may conduct or fabricate such an attack and blame Ukraine and NATO to justify additional aggression against Ukraine. 

Institute foe the Study of War

Russia did this frequently in Syria.
There is no reason to believe they won't do it in Ukraine

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

Watch this! (Russian Major General killed)

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

[gcode]

The likelihood is increasing that Ukrainian forces could fight to a standstill the Russian ground forces attempting to encircle and take Kyiv. Russian forces also appear to be largely stalemated around Kharkiv and distracted from efforts to seize that city. Russian advances in the south around Mykolayiv and toward Zaporizhya and in the east around Donetsk and Luhansk made little progress as well in the last 24 hours. Russia likely retains much greater combat power in the south and east and will probably renew more effective offensive operations in the coming days, but the effective reach and speed of such operations is questionable given the general performance of the Russian military to date. There are as yet no indications that the Russian military is reorganizing, reforming, learning lessons, or taking other measures that would lead to a sudden change in the pace or success of its operations, although the numerical disparities between Russia and Ukraine leave open the possibility that Moscow will be able to restore rapid mobility or effective urban warfare to the battlefield.

ISW

[gcode]

Russia is dying. In just the first week of Putin's war, the country lost somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 men, according to western sources, an immense and needless tragedy for the poor families left behind to grieve.

Whether those in the Kremlin will weep for them, they must shudder at the thought that in the average week the country loses another 2,000 through population decline, a rate that rose to 20,000 during Covid. But even in normal periods, Russia is now shrinking by more than 100,000 people a year and with no prospect of raising fertility above the 2.1 total fertility rate (children-per-woman) replacement threshold.

The incomprehensible thing about this war is that Russia is not a belligerent young nation in need of expansion; it is not filled with frustrated young men hoping to assert themselves in conflict, as with Syria, Afghanistan or the world's other conflict zones; it is already elderly, ageing quickly and in some parts heading for oblivion. Some 20,000 Russian villages have been completely abandoned in recent years, and 36,000 others have fewer than ten inhabitants left and will follow them soon. A third of land once farmed in the former USSR has now been abandoned.

Children of Men

[mayday]

mayhaps a 10 to 12 stealth visit around 2 am ?