Starting to look quite worrying. Are Russia’s manoeuvres all about preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, or is Putin going to go into full megalomaniac mode?
Hmm I'm not sure what to think, it's worrying either side of the argument. If I were to speculate, I do believe warfare would be more...how do we say technology based, so more cyber attacks, than actual boots on the ground action and/or nuclear missiles being used
Even Putin's not that mad. He'll keep the pressure up, but he knows an invasion would be horrific economically with US & EU sanctions. Plus Boris would be cross
Oh Vlad, what a twat. He’s not a patch on Gurbanguly Malikguliyevich Berdimuhamedov though. The ultimate Dj’ing despot who falls off horses. He must support NUFC
putin likes to let people know that russia are still around and still a threat, i very much doubt any of the 'superpowers' would go for all out war now, too expensive and plenty of what were lesser nations capable of seeing a chance to move in, wars with the big boys is all business related now with all the chat about witholding this or that...there will be quite a bit of 'we will give you/allow you this if you do what we ask' type of thing and it will slowly move onto the next royal scandal or whatever so no one actually loses face or looks weak.
People who believe this will all blow over are like those who watched Chamberlain waving his paper and smiled. It's real people, it can happen and you'll all be shocked.
My worry is the loss of face Putin will suffer if he pulls back the troops from the Ukraine border...He likes to come across as a hard man who won't be pushed around...lets see how it pans out, but I wouldn't bet against him getting his troops to cross the border. I also wouldn't bet against China invading Taiwan at the same time.
Despite what's going on in Ukraine, Putin is have a much worse time with his own people at home so it may be a case of sabre rattling on one hand, while trying to solidify his position so as not to be toppled on the other.
Well the Russians saw the talks as constructive, whilst the US saw them as 'Frank'. Jesus we're going to go to war aren't we?
Exactly...he has form for it. Besides,if Russia and Nato seriously go at it over Ukraine,there will only be one winner....China!
I find it weird that Russia will invade because it doesn’t want any more NATO troops on their border, and their answer is to move their borders closer to NATO