Well this is it folks. Russia is moving forward, Ukraine’s lines are collapsing and NATO is discussing sending tens of thousands of troops and F-16s (nuclear capable) into Ukraine to reinforce their retreating forces.
Putin has made it abundantly clear multiple times that if NATO F-16s enter Ukrainian airspace they will be assumed to be carrying nuclear warheads and Russia will immediately launch tactical nuclear missiles against all NATO installations in Romania and other NATO countries hosting logistical bases that support nuclear launch weapons.
The fools (Blinken, Sullivan and senile Joe) in the Biden administration think that they can’t back down or NATO’s nuclear deterrent threat will be eliminated and Putin will steamroll through Europe. They are delusional and terrified because on some level they know how far over their heads they are.
If they don’t cool off and back down we may all be dead in the coming days or weeks as Russia advances towards the Dniepr. Romania, Poland and France will be glassed and from there the likelihood of world destruction will be extremely high.
Putin doesn’t bluff. Pray that our inept, incompetent and reckless leadership does the right thing. This is a far more dangerous moment than the Cuban missile crisis because our leadership is so pathetically incompetent compared to the leaders of that era.
I feel a bit the fool writing this way. Life for us in the west has been so easy and peaceful for the vast majority for so long real war, let alone nuclear war, feels like just another larp, another it’s not happening. And I pray it is. The problem is my sense of irony is tingling and has been for much of the last couple of years of this war. Most of the men who originally built and deployed the bomb were serious people. Men of character, experience, serious religious belief and conscience. A fact few will acknowledge in this era is that the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives.
We had President Eisenhower who kept the mad dogs of war like Curtis LeMay and the Dulles brothers in check. Now we have a senile old fool who knows nothing of war and a cabinet of younger fools who know even less. They are just the kind of insecure, hollow men who could trip over their own shoelaces into nuclear holocaust.
Scott Ritter lays it out below.
I am sincerely grateful that Putin is an old school, unsentimentalist, nasty bastard. Lermontov's Geroiy Nashevo Vremeniy. This shit show would be immeasurably worse if there weren't an adult in the room.
There is no foolishness in what you have written. Being a child of Ike's first term, I know well how you feel. The real fools are the ones who think they can crawl out of their bunkers and rule the slag heap that is the result of their foolishness.