Your logic is a dumb as those stupid [bleep] who start off across a crosswalk without even a second glance to see if anything is coming. Do they have the right away? Yes. If someone hit them, would the driver be in the wrong? Absolutely. Does it matter one single bit who was in the right or in the wrong when a human body gets hit by a pickup going 50 mph? No, not a bit. You’ll still be dead as a doornail.
Unless you're on a bicycle, apparently. (Calling P.B.)
Is that a missile launch from Belgorod? Russia has the advantage of firing from Russia and then claiming if they shoot back it’s a major crime.
Using US supplied weapons and US advisers inside Ukraine serving with UKO soldiers targeting inside Russia?
Would that be justifiation for a nuke response?
No, because Ukraine has a right of self-defense. You don't get to invade a sovereign nation and then claim the right to use nukes when they mount a vigorous defense. That's called "boot-strapping".
So if Russia meddled in Mexico’s elections & installed a Russia-friendly puppet regime, then sought to get Mexico added to an alliance formed specifically as anti-American, then started waging war against Americans in Mexico.
Would we be justified in invading?
After we invaded, would we be justified in stepping things up if Russia sent their tech & personnel in to assist the Mexicans?
None of the above means “I like Putin”. Anyone implying that is a complete and utter fool or an advocate for the military industrial complex. It IS an attempt to understand what an adversary might think, how he might be motivated, and what we might consider doing if we’d like to deescalate.
If we wanted to… there are many on the pro Uke side who don’t care a lick for deescalation.
I suppose your never trumpism might have you hating Putin and needing to believe him to be the most irrational maniac since Hitler?
Ukraine brigades pressing forward with Russian paratrooper forces fleeing to escape capture and are fleeing from critically important former strongholds necessary to establish footholds in Ukraine.
Putin’s days of reign are getting very short. This according to a government deputy in Saint Petersburg who wanted putin arrested and charged with treason.
Putin’s days of reign are getting very short. This according to a government deputy in Saint Petersburg who wanted putin arrested and charged with treason.
Ukraine brigades pressing forward with Russian paratrooper forces fleeing to escape capture and are fleeing from critically important former strongholds necessary to establish footholds in Ukraine.
Forbes
That sounds very interesting. Are they boots on the ground or receiving second hand info?