Topic: Where is Putin Getting the Guts to Invade Ukraine? - page 2. (Read 331 times)

He is not. He needs to be eliminated before he can press that button.

Fuck, we saw a replay of 1938 with Crimea, and now 1939.

Just watch what Biden will say at 12 ET. Sanctions, sanctions, we will do this and that, blah, blah.

Fucking retards.

There is that thinly-veiled threat of nuclear response that Putin made in his war declaration yesterday. That's a bit of a deterrent I think. And you can't be sure if he's bluffing.

The courage comes from the West's weakness and its fundamental inability to understand Soviet mentality.

West should be expelling all Russian nationals, confiscating all their assets, stopping all trade with Russia.
Arresting all Russian diplomatic and UN convoys.

Move all multinationals out of Russia now, if they refuse, confiscate all their assets outside of Russia, and ban them from doing business outside of Russia.

Anyone doing any business with Russia should be arrested and their assets confiscated.

NATO should be doing nightly/daily raids/bombings of Russian positions in Ukraine and Crimea.

NATO should be ordering "special operations" in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. 

Does Biden seriously think that cutting them off from SWIFT will accomplish anything?  They have their own SWIFT and can happily
trade internationally.

What needs to happen, is a complete trade blockade until Putin is captured, tried, and executed.

If you still think this is not WWIII, you are a naive "Amerikanetz".

He already said what he wants: "demilitarize" former Soviet republics and satellite countries.

The West should be responding militarily, not just with "sanctions". 

"Sanctions" will just embolden him by confirming that military options are off of the table.

Don't announce anything, just bomb the shit out of him.  Start with taking his air-defense systems out.

Here and there I have spent some time in Russia because my father was had an engineering job here and also I have some relatives who live there.
The highest percentage of the Russian population is alcoholic, they'll do every damn thing to not experience alcohol withdrawal and have a bottle of Vodka at hand. Corruption and nepotism is on another level here but at the same time they really appreciate honest and professional workers. When I was in Moscow in my childhood, there was Militsiya instead of Police (Polizei) and they would just come with you and ask for a money or you would have some problems, so it was always necessary to have some money in the pocket. Finally, you would give them some money and then you were free. At the moment there is Police in Russia but I don't think that situation would change dramatically for better.
I want to state also that I respect all the normal russian people and from my experience during the time I spend in Russia, I can proudly say that, some Russian people are really very good but sadly, the media propaganda works on them very well too.

Guys, is Russia top in education? Is Russia top in military achievements? Is Russia top in anything?
Just let's compare USA to Russia in economics.

1. As of February 2022 Apple has a market cap of $2.612 Trillion
2. As of February 2022 Gazprom has a market cap of $73.89 Billion.

1. USA GDP - $24.79 Trillion
2. Russia GDP - $1.71 Trillion

Probably it's pretty clear that Russia wants to reincarnate Soviet Union but you know what? People from post soviet countries hate Russia and the quality of life that had back then. Post soviet countries like western counties, like how they live, how they spend time, how free they are.

Putin isn't as strong as he seems in videos, he has an image of ultra confident and badass person but image is image, actors can suit any image they need at the moment for the film.

Cлaвa Укpaїнi! Гepoям cлaвa!

Biden

I published a post in Bitcointalk titled : Is Putin threatening or Serious to attack Ukraine.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-putin-threatening-or-serious-5385526

The statistical results are as follows.

The research question was : Would Russia Invade Ukraine?

30 people responded to the question but only 20 response were statistically valid.

Analysis was done using simple percentage.

9 respondents which represented 45% of respondents agreed that Russia would not attack Ukraine.

6 respondents which represents 30% of respondents accepted that Russia would invade Ukraine.

While 5 respondents which stands for 25% of population were undecided.

Hence, the researcher concludes that Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine.

But Where is Putin getting his guts to invade Ukraine?

As we all know Russia has started the invasion of Ukraine regardless of the threats of NATO and its Allies. Where is the confidence and strength of Russia coming from?

China: Although China has been cautious about the conflict between Russia but Beijing has also offered high support to Russian President Vladimir. The two world powers signed a joint treaty this month, agreeing on multiple foreign policy goals including no further expansion of NATO. NATO understands the military and economic consequences of the friendship between these globally feared nations.

Russian Military Might: Russian military is one of he best scientifically advanced force. With supersonic weapons like the Avangard, the Kinzhal and the Zircon. Russia is a force in the development of ranges of new hypersonic weapons.

Economy: It is generally believed that Russia has a fragile or ailing economy. But Russia has stockpiled large currency reserve, drastically reduced its use of dollar and trimmed its budget. It has kept overall debts to under two-thirds of his currency reserves making it the ninth least indebted country in the world. Economists believe that Russia can withstand any sanction without any effect for at least one year.

European Dependence: While Russia has reoriented it's trade transactions and  replaced  Western imports with Asian partners, the United States, who is the world’s leading energy consumer, is highly prone to shocks in oil and gas markets.  European nations also highly depend on Russia for copper, aluminum, wheat and other commodities.

Hungary and Belarus: President Orban of Hungary is regarded as a mole in the European Union. Although Hungary is a NATO nations but it has strong ties with Russia. In fact,  Hungary rejected British plea to deploy  NATO soldiers to protect them from Russian aggression. Hungarian government has consistently failed to veto any EU sanctions against Russia.  Lukashenko the President of Belarus is a dependable ally of Putin. His country which which borders the northern part of Ukraine is just 100km to Kiev. And his country could join forces with Russia or can be used as airfields, transportation and logistics purposes.

Cryptocurrencies: I am not insinuating that Cryptos should be used as a means of financing war, neither am I supporting Russia invasion of Ukraine. But some analyst have observed that the reason why Russia is giving cryptocurrencies the green light is because it could be used to bypass the the global financial systems Analyst insists that Russia companies have many cryptocurrency instruments at their disposal to evade sanctions, example are the so-called digital ruble and ransomware.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-will-not-veto-eu-sanctions-russia-orban-2022-03-03/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/with-cutting-edge-hypersonics-russia-leads-in-new-arms-race/articleshow/84642056.cms