Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
A Berlin spokesman said Germany was convinced Ukraine had the right to defend itself from Russia, especially from cross-border attacks on its second largest city Kharkiv.
US officials said American-supplied weapons could be used to counter Russian fire near the Kharkiv region, either where Russian forces were “hitting them or preparing to hit them”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the decision would help protect civilians living in villages close to the Russian border.
They could deescalate by getting the fuck out of Ukraine.
Look at what you’re making me do!!
The abusers credo
Putin’s saber has been rattled so much that it functions more as a seppuku vibrator than anything else these days.
Seppuku vibrator
Great band name
Seppuku™ Vibrators
“Finish yourself off, with honour!”
Edit: sorry I misread band as brand.
Thrust yourself into la petite mort with a Seppuku™ Vibrator today!
This is such a delightful cultural mash-up.
A good brand name too, apparently.
Now thinking what genre it would be. J-Punk maybe?
My current headcanon is that they’re an eclectric quartet from Ingelwood California who dabble in folk-, synth-, and indie pop. This summer they’re opening for Hiatus Kaiyote.
He uses it to get Pooh bear off. Gotta keep the war machine going.
We get it, Putin. You’re shitting your pants because no one is taking you serious anymore, and your orange ass puppet has been charged who is also shitting his pants both literally and figuratively.
Sounds like Russia’s “final warning”
So… lemme get this straight. (Neglecting the fact that Putin started thus and can end it at any time) Russia can buy and use Iranian, North Korean (and possibly/likely Chinese) weapons on Ukraine, but Ukraine reciprocating using western weapons would justify a nuclear response?
Don’t put too much thought into it, ist an empty threat to scare idiots, there’s no logic
What’s Putin going to do? Attack a NATO nation? Bring it the fuck on, loser. We’ll be flying sorties over Moscow within the week
“Russia said…”
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I think this may be the first time this phrase has been used appropriately:
Oh yeah? You and what army?
Say bye-bye to the rest of your palaces, shitforbrains.
All you had to do is GTFO of Ukraine, but no, now you get to find out what it’s like being on the wrong end of an F-16.
Ok. But you should know that we love proportional response. You might even say it’s our hobby.
Oh plz Putin, do the world a favor and “accidentally” fall out of a window.
How dare they hit back.
I mean, it is an escalation. But on the other hand, there’s not a whole lot by way of other reasonable response to Russia using the previous policy for tactical benefit, being able to attack without being attacked.
I think that there are basically two options that don’t involve Ukraine being disadvantaged:
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What was done here, permit limited cross-border use.
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Maybe try to work out some kind of terms on which Russia agrees not to do cross-border attacks. But the problem there is enforcement. For Ukraine to be able to pull people away from a border, they have to be very sure that Russia will not attack across that border. If Russia leverages this and builds up to a major attack across the border and breaking that agreement, in order to make it clearly not worthwhile, we’d have to have serious consequences for Russia. I don’t know what would be sufficiently-dissuasive short of attacking Russian forces ourselves.
And if Russia had refrained from exploiting that policy, they also wouldn’t be facing the current change.
I also feel like the broader goal of avoiding Russian cities being attacked is still generally intact, and it’s not as if Russia has extended a comparable policy of trying to limit damage to Ukrainian cities. Quite the opposite, really. And given that Russia is trying to conquer Ukraine and take those cities for themselves, if anyone’s got incentive to try to cut some kind of agreement to not damage Ukrainian cities, aside from Ukraine, you’d think that it’d be Russia.
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Add the West will do it again, one more little step, and another one, unless there is a real escalation happening from Russia that at is at a worrisome level, but below a “Release the Poles” level. The classical salami slice method. We know it, Putin knows it and fears it, but if there was something he could do he would’ve done it by now.
Fine, Putin. Escalate some more. See what happens. I don’t think you’ll like it, but why take the word of an American? Try it for yourself. Find out.
