Vladimir Putin only has one song and he sings it over and over again. There are no verses, only a badly constructed chorus. It is a song of threats, belligerence and crybaby victimhood. He sang it in 2022. He sings it again today. And it has no more truth now than it had back then.
Yesterday, he was up to the same old trick. First, he threatened to “cut Ukraine off from the sea” in response to drone attacks on Russian tankers. Then he threatened a Russian invasion of Europe. “We’re not going to war with Europe,” he said. “I’ve said that a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we’re ready right now.”
It’s all nonsense. In reality, Putin cannot sever Ukraine’s connection to the sea, because it still controls major ports including Odesa. In reality, Putin already went to war with Europe when he invaded a European country. In reality, he is not “ready right now”. He uses baseless threats because they are one of his few remaining weapons.
It is also what undermines Europe’s willingness to stand up to Putin. Russia has presented any move designed to support Ukraine as an obstacle to peace. This is, of course, nonsense. If Putin wanted to end the war tomorrow he could do so. But there are people who are either gullible enough to believe it or mendacious enough that they pretend to be.
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has held up the EU’s use of frozen Russian state assets for weeks, depriving Ukraine of funding security and Europe of geopolitical leverage. “Hastily moving forward on the proposed reparations loan scheme would have, as collateral damage, that we as EU are effectively preventing reaching an eventual peace deal,” he said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – cowardly and disingenuous in roughly equal measure.
Do people realize that Russia has the most nuclear weapons in the world?
Recently I thought this war swayed to the Russians and Ukraine was eager to get a ceasefire.
Now Russia is actually thr more desparate side?
This is the same old trope, ‘Putin is bluffing.’ Anyone who plays Poker can tell you sometimes they are and sometimes they… aren’t. The mere possibility of a nuclear escalation is too dangerous, the consequences are to severe that even a remote possibility is not worth the risk,
All the idealists who want to play nuclear chicken with the Russians need to pull their head in start making some rational choices.
Russia won they got away with it and NATIO expansion is over. They are winning on the battlefield and the attrition has reached a critical mass, without a massive injection of trained troops it only gets worse form here, so make the bad deal imo.
But they won’t unless Trump really gets rough with them so it just rolls on, blind ideology getting a reality check. It will be interesting to see how they blame game plays out in the end but I expect little self awareness from the people who got us into this mess.
The increasing stream of these desperate articles that feel detatched from reality strike me as a more worrying sign.
omg putin is so desperate, why? He’s wining? the copiuim here lol, europe is a us puppet and now that big daddy is out they are left just holding their cocks and cant back out of the big game they talked. Next big elections in every EU country is gonna be a shit show
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Vladimir Putin only has one song and he sings it over and over again. There are no verses, only a badly constructed chorus. It is a song of threats, belligerence and crybaby victimhood. He sang it in 2022. He sings it again today. And it has no more truth now than it had back then.
On 24 February 2022, in a televised speech launching the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he first threatened a [nuclear attack](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/nuclear-weapon-no-longer-enough-keep-us-safe-4062029?srsltid=AfmBOopCfno_u3C7BT5jxE2pCPcewJKHmupHI1DIsXQWJR8ShF4v6ovv&ico=in-line_link) in the event of Western interference. “Russia will respond immediately,” he said, “and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history.” He has continued to make this threat on a regular, near-monthly basis over the ensuing years, most recently in July.
Yesterday, he was up to the same old trick. First, he threatened to “cut Ukraine off from the sea” in response to drone attacks on Russian tankers. Then he threatened a Russian invasion of Europe. “We’re not going to war with Europe,” he said. “I’ve said that a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we’re ready right now.”
It’s all nonsense. In reality, Putin cannot sever Ukraine’s connection to the sea, because it still controls major ports including Odesa. In reality, Putin already went to war with Europe when he invaded a European country. In reality, he is not “ready right now”. He uses baseless threats because they are one of his few remaining weapons.
Putin is at his strongest when people believe what he says. He is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions. It was his triumph of persuasion, for instance, which almost won the war for Russia earlier this year, when [Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-betrayal-ukraine-complete-3654980?srsltid=AfmBOoquLKpQJbFcBM9cAf_HBFGUDh01xW4U4zBmWcF_iRy3pAynJ8nX&ico=in-line_link) ended up shouting at Volodymyr Zelensky that “if [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you”.
It is also what undermines Europe’s willingness to stand up to Putin. Russia has presented any move designed to support Ukraine as an obstacle to peace. This is, of course, nonsense. If Putin wanted to end the war tomorrow he could do so. But there are people who are either gullible enough to believe it or mendacious enough that they pretend to be.
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has held up the EU’s use of frozen Russian state assets for weeks, depriving Ukraine of funding security and Europe of geopolitical leverage. “Hastily moving forward on the proposed reparations loan scheme would have, as collateral damage, that we as EU are effectively preventing reaching an eventual peace deal,” he said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – cowardly and disingenuous in roughly equal measure.
Do people realize that Russia has the most nuclear weapons in the world?
Recently I thought this war swayed to the Russians and Ukraine was eager to get a ceasefire.
Now Russia is actually thr more desparate side?
This is the same old trope, ‘Putin is bluffing.’ Anyone who plays Poker can tell you sometimes they are and sometimes they… aren’t. The mere possibility of a nuclear escalation is too dangerous, the consequences are to severe that even a remote possibility is not worth the risk,
All the idealists who want to play nuclear chicken with the Russians need to pull their head in start making some rational choices.
Russia won they got away with it and NATIO expansion is over. They are winning on the battlefield and the attrition has reached a critical mass, without a massive injection of trained troops it only gets worse form here, so make the bad deal imo.
But they won’t unless Trump really gets rough with them so it just rolls on, blind ideology getting a reality check. It will be interesting to see how they blame game plays out in the end but I expect little self awareness from the people who got us into this mess.
The increasing stream of these desperate articles that feel detatched from reality strike me as a more worrying sign.
omg putin is so desperate, why? He’s wining? the copiuim here lol, europe is a us puppet and now that big daddy is out they are left just holding their cocks and cant back out of the big game they talked. Next big elections in every EU country is gonna be a shit show
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