General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin threatens to use nuclear weapons
Link to tweet
This is from the Financial Times. The comments indicate this is standard Putin playbook when things go badly.
Link to tweet
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)JohnSJ
(92,434 posts)will suffer unimaginable consequences
It is really time for China to step in to try and mediate this insanity
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)NCDem47
(2,250 posts)JohnSJ
(92,434 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)and rather on Putin's side. China may just wait and pick up the pieces of whatever is left from the world if all goes to shit.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)I don't know if the world can wait that long. This menace needs to be removed. Will the Russian military do it or is it going to get messy?
Hugin
(33,222 posts)13th - 15th. Only the 15th if you are a purist.
Quixote1818
(28,985 posts)The defence chief will remove him, backed by the KGB and army, if he carries on like this. I will put money on that.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,819 posts)I can't see Putin getting out of this mess of his own making successfully at this point.
JohnSJ
(92,434 posts)sop
(10,274 posts)I hope sane people around him can control this crazy MFer before he blows up the world.
randr
(12,417 posts)Needs to be PutDown
Response to Tomconroy (Original post)
Submariner This message was self-deleted by its author.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)special ops operation to hunt him down and kill him should not be off the table. Everything is relative and everything is relevant.
Emile
(22,995 posts)He is being a world wide threat.
dwayneb
(768 posts)It's the age old MAD scenario we've feared since the Trinity test way back in 1945.
In my opinion we have to call his bluff. If he lobs a nuke - so be it. If the modern world is destroyed in a nuclear war - so be it.
Maybe it's easier for me to say this since I'm an old geezer and I have had my time in the sun.
We cannot idly sit back and watch a megalomaniac like Putin put us under the boot. Even if the worst comes to pass. What sort of world would it be for our children and their future generations if we allow that to happen?
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Pissing in your own beer is also back from what I have come to understand.