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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

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Putin has nukes and I think he would use them.
The only time said he would use use nukes was if Ukraine joined Nato AND invaded Crimea. The other unspecified stuff was his hypersonic missiles which no one "has ever seen before" and would likely be targeted at the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier in the Med, assuming air strikes were launched from it. He sent Mig 31s armed with hypersonics to Syria 2 weeks ago.
 
The only time said he would use use nukes was if Ukraine joined Nato AND invaded Crimea. The other unspecified stuff was his hypersonic missiles which no one "has ever seen before" and would likely be targeted at the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier in the Med, assuming air strikes were launched from it. He sent Mig 31s armed with hypersonics to Syria 2 weeks ago.

He lies a lot, though.
 
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Putin expert Fiona Hill gave an interview saying we are in World War 3 and that Putin won't stop with Ukraine.

Are we in WW3??

What do you think?
I read her piece in Politico. I think if we look at it as the whole world needs to work together to put an end to this guy’s ambition she’s absolutely right.

Working together we can make Putin look weak before his upcoming election. We can work together to weaken the Russian economy. We can force Russia toward China. Lastly, we can enforce rules based systems. That means moving away from Russia and China both.

I’m glad she made the comparison to Hitler, because the parallels are important.

 
A FANTASTIC read, but the bigger deal is her saying Russia has been fighting WW3 for years, and has been co-opting Western politicians to help him. Also great is the comparisons of Putin's Greater Russia goal to Hitler's Greater Germany, and comparing US and European politicians love of Hitler's strength leading up to WW2 with politicians loving Putin's strength now.
 
I read her piece in Politico. I think if we look at it as the whole world needs to work together to put an end to this guy’s ambition she’s absolutely right.

Working together we can make Putin look weak before his upcoming election. We can work together to weaken the Russian economy. We can force Russia toward China. Lastly, we can enforce rules based systems. That means moving away from Russia and China both.

I’m glad she made the comparison to Hitler, because the parallels are important.

Putin's "Greater Russia" goal of reconquering everywhere Russia has ruled in the past is exactly the same as China's goal to do the same. We have to stand up and stop them. In do not think they will destroy their own countries by using nukes. Instead they hope hypersonics can take out enough of our military advantages to keep us from stopping them.
 
Saw earlier that Turkey had changed its mind and will block Russian warships from coming or going to Black Sea.

"Turkey issued the first official clarification since Zelenskyy's appeal, stating that Turkey has agreed to cut off the waterways to Moscow’s warships in one of the crucial moves with respect to Russia’s maritime warfare capabilities. Russia, in its fierce response to Turkey, disputed a claim over Black Sea access via the Interfax news agency, that no official notification of the closure was sent to Moscow. Under Montreux convention, asserted Russia, war vessels sailing in Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits will be allowed to return to port. “If Turkey did go ahead and ban warships from the strait, it would break the convention,” warned Russia via its state-affiliated Interfax agency. "

 
Putin's "Greater Russia" goal of reconquering everywhere Russia has ruled in the past is exactly the same as China's goal to do the same. We have to stand up and stop them. In do not think they will destroy their own countries by using nukes. Instead they hope hypersonics can take out enough of our military advantages to keep us from stopping them.
China is on much longer time table.

I also wouldn’t worry that hypersonic missiles would be able to prevent a nuclear response. They’d defeat missile defense systems in coastal cities, but that’s not where our command and control and weapons are. Might create a temporary chain of command issue.
 
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