>He will keep escalating the violence in his attacks until Zelensky capitulates
>meanwhile EU and NATO keeps funnelling deadly weapons into Ukraine
>He can not afford to lose this war because the Allies now have an eternal target on his head as a war criminal, and will likely end up executed if caught
>likely action is he uses tactical nukes
Do you realize he will not stop until he wins this war?
Eli Thomas
Daniel Sullivan
The reason he pushed the "anti-nazi" stuff was to get support from Jews in and out of Russia.
He knows who really rules America.
Evan Reed
No matter what he does, he's already lost - there's no way he can occupy anything other than Donetsk and Donbas long term.
How can one man fuck up so badly?
Angel Peterson
>escalating the violence
With what army?
The russian army and the missile force is in decrepit shape and no where near as capable or willing as Putin wants you to believe.
Why do you think Putin now hides in the Urals? Not because he is afraid of NATO, but because he knows that his own oligarchs and generals will turn on him, soon.
He overplayed his hand and lost.
The nuclear posturing is just an attempt to win time to sort out his domestic power struggle.
Putin's war already saved his old and bitter rival Erdogan from getting dethroned in Turkey. Putin probably was very sure that Turkey was out for the count due to inflation and economic issues. Now he gave them a good reason to stay in the game and they are suplying Ukraine with state of the art drones.
This war is going so badly for Putin, even the chinese are starting to get embaressed for ever being asociated with him.
And how will nuking Brussles bring back the roughly 200 billion € which Putin's oligarch buddies just lost?
Do you really think the basis of Putin's power is nukes? Just like with the czar and the boyars putin's power base are the siloviki-oligarchs.
And the oligarchs are not amused, not amused at all.
Putin signed a deal with Xi Jinping just 2 weeks ago to trade oil and gas in €.
This deal is now dead because the EU banks cut Putin off.
The chinks can't pay putin because the deal for russian petrol products was signed to be made in €.
This was made impopssible by brussels just yesterday when they went nuclear.
The chinks sure as hell will not take rubels and Putin just as sure will not take chink monopoly money.
Have you any idea how much just this EU move alone fucked him over?
Brody Reed
>tactical nukes
the problem with the nukes is that it is something that should be used as last resort, he should know that the moment he fire them against a NATO cunt he will have the Americans Frenchs and Bongs nukes in Moscow
Andrew Adams
lol no, they will just post on twitter that they are deebly gonserned and throw more impotent "sanctions"
Liam Perry
Politically? He surrounded himself with yes-men and believed his own propaganda.
Militarily? The russian military failed to learn from nagorno karabakh 2020, where the incredible effectiveness of cheap drones and even cheaper loitering munitions became obvious.
William Stewart
no
jesus fucking christ have you been paying attention at all?
David Taylor
>>likely action is he uses tactical nukes
What is the smallest nuke he can drop ?
Asher Harris
He's doing pretty well actually
Easton Wood
>and here. we. go.
Luke Myers
Also, the Ukrainians modernized their army after 2014 and rotated conscripts through tours in Donbas. Now they have 400.000 veterans, while Putin's troops only have the 2000 or so veterans from Syria, where they basically just bombed unarmed peasants. Same goes for his Chechnya dogs.
Jacob Robinson
Zelensky isnt going to capitulate. They'll have to take Ukraine apart brick by brick. Each person they kill makes it more difficult to pacify the country. They'll need a million men stationed there permanantly under constant low-intensity guerilla war. The West just keeps Russia sanctioned and isolated until it collapses in starvation and angry riots and Putin gets lynched. Game over.
Oh if he uses tactical nukes - its over - the Russian generals wont do it they'll depose him first but if the dont NATO will move in in force. If thats nuclear war so be it but if you underestimate NATO's resolve here then you're a fool. They've got Putin on the ropes they're not going to let him squirm away.
Cameron Ross
Don't bother his idiot fanboys are too busy jacking off to bAsEd pOoTiE
William Parker
They have things like this
Parker Price
English have an irrational hatred for Russia, it's crazy. Not even Americans hate Russia like that despite the Cold War.
Anthony Adams
>Do you realize he will not stop until he wins this war?
yeah thats usually how wars work
Carter Brooks
he already fucked up his country with no survivors
he can have ukraine
Hudson Hughes
Yeah, I know. I just ignore them. But maybe someone can give me some good arguments and point out holes in my reasoning.
What we should take home from this conflict and especially the chinese will take notes about is: Financial warfare is a real thing now.
Luke Green
Russia doesn't use nukes unless
>1) they get nuked (leads to nuclear exchange)
>2) they are losing a conventional war (leads to nuclear force negotiations to get the enemy to stop attacking, but not a full nuclear exchange)
there are Cold War-era Russian generals who need to be spoken to before carrying out a nuclear first strike, and they won't let Putin's autism destroy the planet, just like the Joint Chiefs of Staff wouldn't let the US president sperg out and destroy the planet
Brayden Wilson
And this was NATO's plan all along. If they truly wanted a peaceful coexistence with Russia and a calm Europe, they would have given up on accepting Ukraine into NATO, keeping forever as a demilitarized and neutral buffer zone. Instead, Zelensky started pushing for NATO membership as NATO wanted, pushing Russia into a corner leading to where we are today. Now NATO can bleed Russia dry while sacrificing the lands and peoples of Ukraine who foolishly believe in NATO's promise of peace and a richer existence.
Nicholas White
Somehow ((they))) convinced a lot of people that putin is going to cry for the death of his men and retire to russia
Jacob Ross
He said occupy long term. Realistically it will be very expensive, difficult and generally not worth it for Putin to try and keep hold of these areas for a long amount of time.