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NASAM is under construction and won't be available until 2024 or 2025.
Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2
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NASAM is under construction and won't be available until 2024 or 2025.
A big, fat target for an MLRS strike
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Middle Eastern’s have been killing each other for thousands of years. You point?
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So why you now attacking me personally? i thought we were respectfully arguing a point only?
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you see when middle eastern went to war a lot less people would have died . for example in the first major war between Othman empire with Safavid empire not even 1000 died , in Europe the amount of the dead were on another level .
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Millions dead in Thirty Years War, WW1.
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September 25, 2022 Russia-Ukraine News
Facing protests at home and diminished forces in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin moved to bolster his military and crack down on dissent.
US warns of “catastrophic” consequences if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine
From CNN's Sam Fossum and Priscilla Alvarez
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan promised Sunday that there would be "catastrophic" consequences if Russia used a nuclear weapon in Ukraine and said the US will enact further economic sanctions against Russia if the Kremlin completes its "sham" referenda.
On further consequences against Russia for the referenda in occupied Ukrainian territories, Sullivan pointed to the G7 leaders’ statement from Friday and said there will be more announcements from the US in the days ahead.
"They reiterated that there would be consequences and specified that that would include additional enhanced sanctions, including sanctions on entities and companies outside of Russia that are supporting the Russian war machine or supporting these fake referenda or Russia's efforts," Sullivan said.
In an interview on ABC “This Week”, Sullivan also said the US is planning “for every contingency.”
Asked about ongoing protests in Russia, Sullivan said the US is focused on continuing to support Ukraine: “The future of Russia is for the Russian people to decide."
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UK PM: Russian military escalation and "bogus threats" show Putin has been "outsmarted"
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Vladimir Putin’s announcement of increased military conscription to bolster Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shows the Russian President “has been outsmarted” by Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss told CNN in an exclusive interview.
The new British leader, who takes power at a time of historic upheaval, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that Putin had ordered an immediate military escalation “because he isn’t winning.”
“He made a strategic mistake, invading Ukraine,” Truss said in her first interview with a US network, which aired Sunday.
“I think he has been outsmarted by the Ukrainians. We’ve seen the Ukrainians continue to push back against the Russian offensive. And I think he didn’t anticipate the strength of reaction from the free world.”
Truss, who faces perhaps the biggest set of challenges of any incoming British prime minister since Winston Churchill, met with US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
In a subsequent interview at 10 Downing Street, she told CNN that Washington “is an incredibly close partner” but did not roll back controversial comments she made last year, while UK Foreign Secretary, in which she described the US-UK relationship as “special but not exclusive.”
When asked how Western leaders should respond if Putin ramps up military activity in Ukraine, Truss said they “should not be listening to his saber-rattling and his bogus threats.”
“Instead, what we need to do is continue to put sanctions on Russia and continue to support the Ukrainians.”
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Yes Putin’s most favorite fighters come from ethnic minorities. When they die, nobody missing them, he believes.
Now Russia middle class is revolting because their sons and daughters are recruited.
Putin did it, now Russia parliament just approved martial laws. Every Russian that refuses to join the army, or runs away will face prison term 5 to 10 years.
Gesetz in Russland: Gefängnis für Deserteure und das Verbot zu Plündern
Wladimir Putin hat ein neues Gesetz unterzeichnet. Laut diesem drohen Deserteuren nun hohe Strafen. Trotzdem regt sich Widerstand.www.fr.de
‘A way to get rid of us’: Crimean Tatars decry Russia’s mobilisation
Members of ethnic group, which has largely opposed Russian rule since 2014, say they are being disproportionately targeted
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‘A way to get rid of us’: Crimean Tatars decry Russia’s mobilisation
Members of ethnic group, which has largely opposed Russian rule since 2014, say they are being disproportionately targetedwww.theguardian.com
Tatars claim they are great warriors. Now is the chance to prove themselves.
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Jake Sullivan: US will act ‘decisively’ if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine
US national security adviser says: ‘Any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia’
What if Vladimir Putin used nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
Experts are not convinced the Russian leader would use nukes, but here are several possible scenarios that could unfold.
A monument to the Soviet Union's first mass-produced tactical nuclear bomb RDS-4 at the Fedora Poletaeva square in Moscow, Russia [File: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE]
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President Vladimir Putin’s thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if Russian “territorial integrity” is threatened has sparked deep discussion in the West as to how it would respond.
In a televised address on Wednesday, the Russian leader said he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons if Russian territories were threatened, as he announced a partial military mobilisation that would see some 300,000 reserve forces sent to fight in Ukraine.
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end of list“Those who are trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the wind can also turn in their direction,” Putin said, adding: “This is not a bluff.”
Analysts are not convinced that Putin is willing to be the first to unleash nuclear weapons since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.
Several experts and officials spoke with AFP about the possible scenarios that could arise should Russia carry out a nuclear attack.
What would a Russian nuclear attack look like?
Analysts say Moscow would likely deploy one or more “tactical” or battlefield nuclear bombs.Tactical nukes are small weapons, ranging from 0.3 kilotons to 100 kilotons of explosive power, compared with the 1.2 megatons of the largest US strategic warhead or the 58 megaton bomb Russia tested in 1961.
Tactical bombs are designed to have a limited impact on the battlefield, compared with strategic nuclear weapons which are designed to fight and win all-out wars.
But “small” and “limited” are relative: The atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 to devastating effect was just 15 kilotons.
What might Moscow target?
Analysts say Russia’s goal in using a tactical nuclear bomb in Ukraine would be to frighten it into surrender or submission to negotiations, and divide the country’s Western backers.Sign up for Al Jazeera
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Mark Cancian, a military expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, said Russia would not likely use nuclear weapons on the front lines.
Capturing 20 miles (32km) of territory could require the use of multiple nuclear bombs – small gains for the huge risks of introducing nuclear weapons and nuclear fallout.
“Just using one will not be enough,” Cancian said.
Moscow could instead send a strong message and avoid significant casualties by detonating a nuclear bomb over water, or exploding one high over Ukraine to generate an electromagnetic pulse that would knock out electronic equipment.
Or, Putin could opt to attack a Ukrainian military base, or hit an urban centre and generate mass casualties and possibly kill the country’s political leadership.
Such scenarios “would likely be designed to split the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) alliance and global consensus against Putin,” Jon Wolfsthal, a former White House nuclear policy expert, wrote on Friday on Substack.
“It is unclear if it would succeed, and could just as easily be seen as desperation as resolve,” he said.
How should the West respond?
The West has remained ambiguous on how it would respond to a tactical nuclear strike, and the choices are complicated.The US and NATO do not want to appear weak in front of an implicit nuclear threat. But they also would want to avoid the possibility that the war in Ukraine – not a NATO member – could escalate into a much broader, devastating global nuclear war.
Experts say the West would have no option but to respond to a Russian nuclear attack, and that a response should come from NATO as a group, rather than the US alone.
The US has positioned about 100 of its own tactical nuclear weapons in NATO countries and could respond in kind against Russian forces.
The threat of response would demonstrate resolve and remind Moscow of the danger of its actions, according to Matthew Kroenig of the Atlantic Council.
However, he said, “it might also provoke a Russian nuclear reprisal, raising the risk of a larger nuclear exchange and further humanitarian disaster”.
Another risk is that some NATO members might reject a nuclear response, serving Putin’s aims of weakening the alliance.
Should Ukraine be given more powerful weapons?
Answering a nuclear attack in a more conventional military or diplomatic way, and supplying Ukraine with more lethal arms to attack Russia, could be more effective, experts say.“Russian nuclear use might provide an opening to convince countries that have so far been reluctant – such as India and possibly even China – to participate in escalating sanctions,” Kroenig said.
In addition, the US could offer Ukraine NATO aircraft, Patriot and THAAD anti-missile batteries, and ATACMS long-range missiles that could be used by Ukraine forces to strike deep inside Russia.
“Whatever restrictions we have on Ukraine forces – and I think we have some restrictions – I think we take all of those off,” Cancian said.
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