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Putin: "Stick to the timeline!"


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While somewhat on the rhetorical side, I agree with this op-ed's opinion that Russia doesn't have the capability to attack a NATO country (they don't even have the capacity to attack non-NATO Ukraine). Therefore they won't and the fear that they will is unfounded. 

Russia remains, and is likely to remain, in term of both numbers and quality, at a military disadvantage to Nato. But not only would Russia lose quickly; Russia neither has the intent nor military capability to launch an armed attack on Nato in the first place.

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/russia-will-not-attack-nato/

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At any get together, enjoy the explosive taste of HIMARS brand cigarettes -

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Just ask the folks at this restaurant preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the Russian People's Republic in occupied Donetsk, UA...uh...nevermind.

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Putin is plotting ‘physical attacks’ on the West, says GCHQ chief

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/14/putin-plotting-physical-attacks-west-gchq-chief/

"Vladimir Putin’s Russia is preparing “physical attacks” against the West, the head of GCHQ has warned, as British and American intelligence officials laid bare the dual threat posed by Moscow and Beijing.

Anne Keast-Butler, who was appointed to lead Britain’s signals intelligence operations last May, used her first major speech to highlight the immediate threat posed by the Kremlin and the “epoch-defining” risk posed by China to the UK and its allies.

The GCHQ director told a gathering of cyber security experts in Birmingham that her agency believed Moscow was looking to go further than attacks simply in cyberspace.

The signals agency is “increasingly concerned about growing links between the Russian intelligence services and proxy groups to conduct cyber-attacks – as well as suspected physical surveillance and sabotage operations”."

 

The source is sketchy, but it follows a lot of other talk in the last couple of weeks about Russia making a move against NATO. Germany is talking about mandatory conscription again. Eastern European nations are saying its time to ramp up military readiness. Some in NATO are growing louder in their calls for sending actual troops into Ukraine. It also ties in to shortly after Speaker Johnson received a briefing by the CIA and moved quickly to pass the military aid package.

Something has shifted to cause this kind of rhetorical swing from "its a proxy war" to "prepare for direct conflict".

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