Russia-Ukraine War

[1972Shocker]

Will Biden Betray Ukraine and NATO by Lifting Sanctions to Get Putin's Help With a New Iran Nuclear Deal?

https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/03/05/will-biden-betray-ukraine-and-nato-by-lifting-sanctions-to-get-putins-help-with-a-new-iran-nuclear-deal-n532113

On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russian cooperation in brokering a new Iran Nuclear Deal was linked to removing sanctions imposed on Russia since its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Lavrov said Russia wanted a written guarantee from the United States that Russia’s trade, investment and military-technical cooperation with Iran would not be hindered in any way by the sanctions.

“We want an answer – a very clear answer – we need a guarantee that these sanctions will not in any way touch the regime of trade-economic and investment relations which is laid down in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” Lavrov said.

Just as in the initial Iran Nuclear Deal, the Biden junta negotiating Iran’s pathway to a nuclear weapon is using Russia as an interlocutor with Iran. This is presumably because we and Iran both trust Russia to be an honest broker (yes, I am laughing).

With Lavrov’s declaration, it is clear that Putin foreshadowed what was coming in his speech yesterday (see Vladimir Putin Makes Bizarre and Desperate Appeal for ‘Normalized Relations’ and the End of Sanctions).

It would not be a shock, given the behavior of Biden and his entourage, to wake up tomorrow and find that Biden has lifted sanctions on Russia because I think he and his State Department are so obsessed with a new Iran Nuclear Deal that they’d willingly sandbag our European allies to make that happen.

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I would never say never when it comes to what the Biden Adminstration might do but I really can't imagine they would do something like this at this time.

[AZ Shocker]

Don't worry about it, the electric companies have contracts with Indian tech support firms who will walk them through rebooting the power plants.

Just unplug it. Wait 10 seconds then plug it back in.

[wufan]

Putin is saying the sanction the world is taking against Russia constitutes an act of war. Therefore they are contemplating responding with Cyber Attacks on the West.

So my question would be this - if Russia decided to conduct cyber attacks against our electric grid this next week when a pretty large polar vortex may impact a large portion of the United States. There could be some stress put on the power grid just by the polar vortex (especially in Texas), combine that with a cyber attack it could cause cascading failure to occur.

How should the U.S. respond if there is a substantial cyber attack that takes down critical infrastructure?

In kind maybe? I don’t like that though as we hurt the Russian people with sanctions and this would further impact the Russian people. If you’re going to fight a proxy war, it probably needs to be with weapons.

[N Crestway]

If Russian armed forces aren't savaged in the Ukraine then maybe they move on to the NATO Baltic republics which NATO cannot effectively defend with the forces it has in place right now. Not a pleasant scenario going forward because the fall of the Ukraine could just be the beginning. I suspect that NATO would have some problem with defending a line running from Poland through Romania due to how hollowed out European ground forces have become over the last 30 years, and that fact is probably limiting the NATO response to what is taking place in the Ukraine. NATO can probably dominate in a war in the air, so there is that...

[C0|dB|00ded]

Putin is saying the sanction the world is taking against Russia constitutes an act of war. Therefore they are contemplating responding with Cyber Attacks on the West.

So my question would be this - if Russia decided to conduct cyber attacks against our electric grid this next week when a pretty large polar vortex may impact a large portion of the United States. There could be some stress put on the power grid just by the polar vortex (especially in Texas), combine that with a cyber attack it could cause cascading failure to occur.

How should the U.S. respond if there is a substantial cyber attack that takes down critical infrastructure?

I would say that if we're vulnerable to Slav hacking as the founding fathers of... well... everything technological, then we deserve what we get. Our country should be on red alert in every way known to man.

But to answer your question: if they break through,.... more sanctions!

We certainly can't start firing missiles. We need U.S. Nerds to be on their game and ready to pwn.

[Kung Wu]

Putin is saying the sanction the world is taking against Russia constitutes an act of war. Therefore they are contemplating responding with Cyber Attacks on the West.

So my question would be this - if Russia decided to conduct cyber attacks against our electric grid this next week when a pretty large polar vortex may impact a large portion of the United States. There could be some stress put on the power grid just by the polar vortex (especially in Texas), combine that with a cyber attack it could cause cascading failure to occur.

How should the U.S. respond if there is a substantial cyber attack that takes down critical infrastructure?

Don't worry about it, the electric companies have contracts with Indian tech support firms who will walk them through rebooting the power plants.

[SB Shock]

Putin is saying the sanction the world is taking against Russia constitutes an act of war. Therefore they are contemplating responding with Cyber Attacks on the West.

So my question would be this - if Russia decided to conduct cyber attacks against our electric grid this next week when a pretty large polar vortex may impact a large portion of the United States. There could be some stress put on the power grid just by the polar vortex (especially in Texas), combine that with a cyber attack it could cause cascading failure to occur.

How should the U.S. respond if there is a substantial cyber attack that takes down critical infrastructure?

[C0|dB|00ded]

I mean, the trauma I went through watching January 6th is probably a lot like what the Ukrainians are going through. All of America, in fact.

CNN, MSNBC, and the Democrats told me so.

A rather unclever attempt to minimize the actions of an evil man, leaning on the backs of simple-minded Americans, to piss all over the U.S. Constitution in order to feed his insatiable ego.

Populist authoritarian regimes "are mobilizational regimes in which a strong, charismatic, manipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower-class groups.

You're a little early on the revisionist history propaganda cycle. That will start in the summer and fall leading up to midterms. ****er/Hannity et al. will be delivering your talking points then.

I, as well as millions of other Moderates/Independents will be looking to vote out anybody resembling the "Trump Horde".

Covidiocy and Jan. 6th made things crystal clear. Our 'Grand Old Party' has a brain drain(ed) problem.

[C0|dB|00ded]

https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/hundreds-of-people-are-booking-airbnb-rentals-in-ukraine-heres-why/

Hundreds of people are booking Airbnb rentals in Ukraine — here’s why

This article will take care of any dry eye issues.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine

Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?

Mearsheimer is a proponent of great-power politics—a school of realist international relations that assumes that, in a self-interested attempt to preserve national security, states will preëmptively act in anticipation of adversaries. For years, Mearsheimer has argued that the U.S., in pushing to expand nato eastward and establishing friendly relations with Ukraine, has increased the likelihood of war between nuclear-armed powers and laid the groundwork for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive position toward Ukraine. Indeed, in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Mearsheimer wrote that “the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for this crisis.”

A thought-provoking article devoid of any American ethnocentrism.

[SB Shock]

Holy crap!

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status...fiNw2Zi6Q&s=19

if it had been a professional ambush they would have been dead.

[Kung Wu]

"Maybe Putin is just bluffing and wants to negotiate with NATO."
"Maybe Putin is just trying to get NATO to dissolve."
"Putin only wants a small piece of the Ukraine because they speak Russian."
"Putin wants a wasteland buffer."

If Kung Wu was dictator of Russia, why would he attack Ukraine?

I'd simply want all of the poorly protected natural resources that Ukraine is sitting on: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Iron, Manganese, Titanium, Uranium, Mercury and on and on and on. Whoever owns all of those resources is sitting on trillions of dollars of future revenue.

You are telling me I can march into Ukraine with 200,000 troops and I get all of that, and no other country will try and stop me? Hell yeah, lets roll!

And for that matter, what other countries have easily plucked super valuable resources that I can have, and nobody will defend them? Let's march there next.

[pinstripers]

"I don't think Russia could ever control Ukraine," Colin Smith (an expert on the Russian military at the RAND Corp) .said. "That was never their intent. I think they just honestly want Ukraine to be a buffer. Regardless of what government goes back into Ukraine, Ukraine has been left so decapitated it can’t field a viable military. It's not going to join NATO, or NATO decides against even considering it. You've created a wasteland buffer."

[ShockerPrez]

I mean, the trauma I went through watching January 6th is probably a lot like what the Ukrainians are going through. All of America, in fact.

CNN, MSNBC, and the Democrats told me so.

[BOBB]

We have also had multiple attacks…Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Jan 6, etc.

Pearl Harbor and 9/11 weren't sustained. 1/6 was probably on par with the Gunpowder Plot. Definitely not rising to the level of the Whiskey Rebellion.

[wichshock65]

Holy crap!

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1499859916768567296?t=cSolwge0cVPCzfiNw2Zi6Q&s=19