General Ripper on line three
Well this is great. Putin is actually off his rocker, and he’s promising to use the nukes if we don’t do everything he says.
Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a catastrophic new European war, combined with the sheer weirdness of his recent public appearances, has raised questions in western capitals about the mental stability of the leader of a country with 6,000 nuclear warheads.
That is, has revealed that Putin is crazy as a bedbug, which is unfortunate since he has the capacity to destroy the planet.
Following Putin’s speech on Monday, an Elysée official made an unusually bold assessment that the speech was “paranoid”. Bernard Guetta, a member of the European parliament for Macron’s grouping, told France Inter radio on Thursday morning, after military invasion began: “I think this man is losing his sense of reality, to say it politely.” Asked by the interviewer if that meant he thought Putin had gone mad, he said “yes”.
Don’t look up.
Putin frequently refers to that huge arsenal, and made a thinly veiled reference to them when he launched the war on Ukraine.
He said: “Whoever would try to stop us and further create threats to our country, to our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history. We are ready for any outcome.”
At least we won’t have to worry about climate change any more.
It’s so unfair. The only planet that we know of with complex life, and it could all be wiped out by one insane ape.
Too many blows to the head in the hockey rink.
My worry about nukes here is that Russian military doctrine reportedly has a concept we call escalate to deescalate.
It means that in a conflict for some objective, Russia might drop a nuke on a target, e.g. a US aircraft carrier battle group at sea, then ask, “Are we done here?” Then supposedly, Russia would win its objective. I picked a US carrier battle group as an example; I’m not saying that would be the target here.
I’m not worried about a WW3 exchange of everyone launching all the nukes at each other. But I do worry about Russia launching one or a few nukes with escalate to deescalate as a thinkable thought.
I thought that Putin was like Ripper on the day of the invasion. I live in Poland next door to Ukraine….Putin watched Dr Strangelove with Oliver Stone of all people. Maybe he caught the nuclear virus from there!
Putin watched Dr Strangelove with Oliver Stone??? Tell us more!