Russia / Ukraine War - 2023 News and Issues

[SirNotAppearing]

Can't poison food when it's ordered on the fly and picked up by your own operatives. Genius move.

[Grinnie Jax]

They're trying to figure out the colonel's secret recipe for wings.

[Grinnie Jax]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-deal-ukraine

[Elefant&Castle]

Russia's RIA news agency said a bomb was hidden in a statue presented to Tatarsky in a box as a gift.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65155075

[emx]

A tad long, but a nice recap of history:

[Grinnie Jax]

Wonder why there was no reaction from the White House (and London, etc) to the placement of Ruzzian tactical nuclear weapons in another country, Belarus. After all, this globally changes the security strategy for the whole Europe. Given the hysterical behavior of the Kremlin - they may well launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine or Poland, because they are 100% sure that a retaliatory strike will follow not on Moscow, but on Belarus.

[GentleGeorge]

Wonder why there was no reaction from the White House (and London, etc) to the placement of Ruzzian tactical nuclear weapons in another country, Belarus

I suppose you are too young to remember the Jupiter missiles that were sat in Turkey for a while?

[ByeByeEngland]

The preemptive strike was Finland joining NATO

[Grinnie Jax]

I suppose you are too young to remember the Jupiter missiles that were sat in Turkey for a while?

Could you please elaborate? I am too young to remember, but interested in where is the analogy between these two events.

[East_coast]

Wonder why there was no reaction from the White House (and London, etc) to the placement of Ruzzian tactical nuclear weapons in another country, Belarus. After all, this globally changes the security strategy for the whole Europe. Given the hysterical behavior of the Kremlin - they may well launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine or Poland, because they are 100% sure that a retaliatory strike will follow not on Moscow, but on Belarus.

Pot v kettle

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-con..._factsheet.pdf

Although I suspect the check and balances are very different before deployment