We're the ones giving them the arms to attack targets inside Russia, something Ukraine isn't capable of doing on their own.
Right now we're engaged in a proxy war in Yemen. We're supplying the weapons to the Saudis and Hadis to kill the Houthis. Our allied air force attacks targets inside Yemen held by Houthis. From the Houthis side, wouldn't targets inside the USA, or even more directly our Navy in the mideast, be considered equally legitimate? The Houthis have previously tried to attack the US navy, but have sad missiles that can't even reach them, as happened on two attempted launches. Now just to give one hypothetical, lets say that Russia supplied the Houthis with a state of the art hypersonic missile system. And they turned around and used it to sink the USS Mount Whitney flagship of the 6th fleet, with 300+ Americans killed. Is that 'legitimate'? It would be a proportional tit-for-tat response by Russia to American and EU arms striking Russian forces, would it not?

but let me go back to;



Assuming its all bluster has been a terrible strategy so far, hasn't it?
Russia has shown a willingness to use force in retaliation to western aggression. Do you think Vladimir Putin, who has spent his whole career engaging in tit-for-tat escalations, who has already been willing to invade another country, would take assaults on mainland Russia sitting down?

-A self sufficient, college grad in computer science, hard working, overtime loving, don't mess with me I won't mess with you American. Problem is, a large population of the world, yes world, is realizing they can cry until they get resources. Money, food, land, whatever. The world would be better off at least losing half the population. The world is too slow. Some parts are doing great and that's great. The rest, needs a culling. Looking at you big G, send another flood.

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This post was edited by justhackitup on Apr 26 2022 12:03pm

Dont know, maybe they dont really care about muslims in China?
Busy trying to destroy Israel maybe?

Russia to suspend gas supplies to Poland as they've refused to pay in roubles. Looks like they're making an example of Poland, I don't think they can afford to cut the gas supply from other big importers, but let's see

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61237519

No, targets inside the US would not be "legitimate" because we don't have troops in Yemen and we aren't in an active state of war. If Russia gave the Houthis state of the art technology and it was used to attack one of our ships, we would NOT go to war with Russia. We would go to war with the Houthis though!

No, I don't expect Putin to take assaults "sitting down." Every time Ukraine hits supply targets within Russia, I would expect Russia to hit corresponding targets in Ukraine. As for the bluster, Russia has been all over the place with its threats. They haven't followed through on most of them and we shouldn't expect them to.

Which threats haven’t they followed up on btw?

I love the moral grandstanding against Russia, its rich coming from Americans.

"We're morally superior to them, just ignore the thousands of middle easterners we've killed and ruined the lives of in the last 20 years, for no reason whatsoever."

Russia is literally being aggressed upon by Nato (US) on their doorstep and they actually follow through on their red line and do something about it, so Putin's literally Hitler.....

Give me a break, you cum guzzling, state dept propaganda guzzling morons.

Support for Ukraine is just the latest psy-op virtue-signaling campaign you lemmings fell for. Can't wait to see which one comes next.

This post was edited by Payn3 on Apr 26 2022 12:17pm

Its going to be chilly for the next few weeks in Krakow. Won't drop into freezing
Poland made a big show out of saying they would stop importing Russian gas next winter, circa december. Posturing, as they still don't have anything to replace it lined up, one LNG terminal does not supply a whole country. Half its gas and more than half its oil, what's the plan, beg the EU to reverse the direction of the pipelines?

I do not have a comprehensive list of all the threats and follow throughs that Russia has made during the past year. Having said that, here is what I have off the top of my head: all of their nuclear threats, their threats against Finland/Sweden, military retaliation against the West, etc.

I suppose you could argue that they would follow through with placing nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in Kaliningrad but that doesn't really change anything, does it?

As I previously mentioned to you, as you are late to this topic, there is no harm to read back over the topic in order to get a better understanding of the topic content (from a different viewpoint). I would again recommend going over the topic, in particular the first 100 posts, and any video's referenced there. If thats not in the art of the possible then, You will note on post #1 that I outlined what was about to happen. You will note on post #14 i declared my nationality and you will note on post #74 a video was provided by another user which i whole heartedly agreed with.

If you read the topic in totality or even just watched that one video, you will know why Russia will not invade Poland and you will know why Ukraine was Russia's red line. Also if you read the recent posts you would also know why Russia will not invade Finland and Sweden who are imminently due to join NATO /e unless Croatia throw a spanner in the works.

I dont know the common war rules you are referring to. The Red Cross references the international humanitarian law, https://www.icrc.org/en/document/10-things-rules-of-war-geneva-conventions however the concept of war by proxy should not be an alien term. if you are unfamiliar, use google/wiki.

Ultimately you are free to voice your own opinions however what I would say is: sending peace keepers into Ukraine was an insanely poor idea, as was suggesting sending fighter jets into Ukraine via USA. While this may have been suggested with the best of intentions, this could also lead to escalation of war outside of the boarders of Ukraine and Russia. I am now reading that Germany is sending tanks directly to Ukraine. While you might be jumping for joy the rest of the world is holding its breath to see what reaction Russia will make as more and more shipments of this nature take place.



it does not change anything. they (Russia) would be annoyed at Finland and they WILL do something, on top of weaponising the board per se, but no armed conflict. Russia has basically already said this.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 26 2022 12:30pm