Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills
Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills
Russia has announced military exercises near Ukraine that will include deployment drills of tactical nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, six were reported killed in a drone strike on Russia's Belgorod. Follow DW for more.
Russia has announced military exercises near Ukraine that will include deployment drills of tactical nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, six were reported killed in a drone strike on Russia's Belgorod.
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Haven't NATO forces been doing something similar recently? At least I've heard of a UK sub failing to launch a missile in a test recently.
I get it that this is saber rattling, but these tests are ideally regular so everyone - both you and your enemies - know your nukes work. I wonder if Russia's nukes work? I wonder if they are wondering that too?
Both the UA attacks on civilians and unconfirmed reports of the french foreign legion being deployed represent significant escalation from NATO.
the UA attacks on civilians
I feel this is going to be a thing to unpack, but on the one hand, attacks on enemy power infrastructure, even if civilian casualties are a result is fair game in war, for both sides by the way. What is not fair game is levelling a city like Mariupol.
That said, wars of aggression are a crime as per the UN's standpoint, and only one side is taking territory here.
On the other hand, if UA strikes Russian targets - as they are at war - why is that a NATO escalation? Why is that not a UA escalation? And where else can you escalate after the Russians tried to take their capital and kill their leadership? At this point if UA had Moscow under siege and sent entire regiments of special forces after Putin personally, even that would just be proportionate retaliation.
unconfirmed reports of the french foreign legion being deployed
And that would be a Really Bad Thing™ if France was deploying troops into an unwilling country. Poland, Estonia and Hungary all have US troops stationed there ever since they managed to get the Russian troops out. They have their reasons. UA has all the rights to invite foreign troops as much as they want into their sovereign territory. Russia has no say in who gets to deploy into Ukraine, Ukraine alone does.
Go away Hexbear propagandist.
What are the "UA attacks"?
Russia can cease their genocide in Ukraine any moment and retreat to the safety of their own borders.
Even if half of Russias nukes don't work they still have enough to destroy the entire planet 10 times over. People like Macron need a reminder why threatening a ground invasion is a bad idea.
To be honest, if France put soldiers into Ukraine, you could make the same argument the other way.
Continuing the war against Ukraine is a very bad idea since France has nukes, and they might do tactical strikes against Russian formations, so it's better to get out of France's way. France has enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over, or at least enough to destroy Moscow 100 times over, for sure.
Either way, people should stop killing people, Russian soldiers should stay in Russia.
Another thread on this community and yet another Hexbear Tankie brigade spreading disinformation...
Explains why this thread is nothing but tumbleweeds for me. Blocking Hexbear was the best decision I've made on Lemmy.
Unfortunately one of those things that does not work on kbin / mbin yet. I've not seen it this heavily outside of this specific community though. Fairly recently another article was basically ~12 out of 25 or so comments from hexbear accounts. Maybe all the other instances who host the other news communities just defederated from them and that's why I don't see them.
It's a bit unfortunate that so many people have them blocked, it kind of makes the brigades more impactful because fewer people downvotes and report their posts.
This is a special nuclear operation...