Biden calls Pooty Poot's bluff

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[Walleye]

1. I think Putin is a little surprised by the iron resolve of our president

[Mme. Defarge]

3. Gotta love

Dark Brandon! 😎

[Walleye]

6. So far it seems he really has Putin's number

[DENVERPOPS]

29. I just hope

That Putin, Our intelligence community, and our military know what they are doing............

[Walleye]

31. That's all we can ever hope. I have clear memories of the Cuban missile crisis

[DENVERPOPS]

34. AND

we didn't know, until fairly recently, just how close it came during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with that ONE russian sub officer refusing to launch when the other two officers wanted to let fly with their sub mounted nukes......


I don't think any of the young people have ever watched some of the famous movies from long ago. Dr Strangelove and how I learned to love the bomb?, Fail safe?, what other ones were there????????

[Walleye]

35. Dr. Strangelove one of my top 3 favorite movies.

I read Fail Safe in Jr HS and Seven Days in May. I lived 5miles from a major East Coast Air Force base. Everyone was scared. I remember ambassador Stevenson at the UN saying he was prepared to wait until hell freezes over. So thankfully we got out of that as you said coming closer than we ever knew.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Plus the midterm results

Things just ain’t going as planned.

[Walleye]

9. Funny, reaction to that abortion decision may have actually saved democracy

[Alice Kramden]

25. This

the decision was horrendous, and it motivated voters

[Sky Jewels]

15. And their master plan of destroying U.S. democracy on 1-6-21 and installing Trump as

dictator for life so he could hand Ukraine over to Putie didn't go so well either.

[wnylib]

30. Neither did TFG's attempt to bog Biden down

with war in Afghanistan. Trump turned the country over to the Taliban, making it necessary to either pull out or to fight the war all over again.

If the US had been bogged down in Afghanistan, we would not have been able or willing to support Ukraine.

[paleotn]

18. And in the West in general.

We and our NATO allies sometimes can't agree on the color of shit. Not this time.

[Aristus]

2. "Dire consequences"?

What? Is he going to sic the Russian tank corps on us?

Worst that could happen is that we get glare-blindness from all the Russian tanks brewing up...

[aggiesal]

23. Putin will start using more Hypersonic weapons that he showed off early in the war, ...

if he still has any, but Russia has only fired 3.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-has-deployed-kinzhal-hypersonic-missile-three-times-ukraine-2022-08-21/

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies over Red Square during a rehearsal for a flypast, part of a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia May 7, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

If Russia has run out, China has some as well, but they
haven't shown a willingness to sell any Hypersonic weapons to Russia.

The Patriot Defense Missile can not shoot down hypersonic missiles
and the US still does not have any hypersonic missiles.

US plans to use first hypersonic deployment, track for 2023.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-11/news/first-us-hypersonic-deployment-track-2023

This artist's graphic from Lockheed Martin shows a launch of the U.S. OpFires hypersonic missile from a 10×10 wheeled truck. (Graphic by Lockheed Martin)

[Effete Snob]

26. Good. Let's get a real good close look at them and their capabilities

By all means, if they want to test out a new weapon and expose its flaws, this is as good a time as any.

[aggiesal]

28. Russia is not testing, they have working hypersonic weapons ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-has-deployed-kinzhal-hypersonic-missile-three-times-ukraine-2022-08-21/

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies over Red Square during a rehearsal for a flypast, part of a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia May 7, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

[gratuitous]

4. Gonna get your puppets to do a dance, Vlad?

Shaking in our boots, we are.

[orangecrush]

16. +1

[Buckeyeblue]

5. He could launch nukes tomorrow but we can't cower under that threat

Or will forever cower under that threat.

[kairos12]

7. Exactly.

Lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I laugh at Putin's words.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. They Have No Idea...

...how many of their nukes even work.
Which ones will launch, which will go the wrong way, which warheads have proper compression design to detonate, etc. Also, how many of their MIRV warheads are actually empty. They've always lied upon their defense numbers.
What they do know is the NATO tactical weapons do work.
I think he'd be "accidented" before other high officials let him launch nukes.

[Danascot]

32. Russian bad actors

have been selling nuclear material out of their warheads for years. Those missiles could well be empty by now.

[Buckeyeblue]

33. I agree. After seeing how poorly their military equipment has held up the last 10 months

It makes me wonder if their nuclear strength is overblown. With Putin and friends grifting Russia for the last 25 years, there hasn't been the money to even maintain their military and defense.

If Ukraine was in a position to be more aggressive, I think Russia would have a difficult time stopping an invasion.

[NCDem47]

11. Patriot missles are defensive measures.

Don’t want Ukraine to use them Russia? Don’t fire missles into Ukraine.

[Ohioboy]

21. My thoughts exactly

[Cha]

12. FO Genocidal Maniac.. Thank Goodness

Joe Bidne is Prez!! 💕 🤷?♂️

[sprinkleeninow]

13. poot...

right bro'. ísť fúkať

[edhopper]

14. Putin is right

there will be dire consequences. For Russian forces.

[orangecrush]

17. +1

[paleotn]

19. Don't rattle the nuclear saber, Vlad. We've got one too.

[edhopper]

20. And we know ours work

not so sure about yours these days.

[Warpy]

24. Their guidance systems suck

and their nuclear arsenal has been maintained exactly as well as the rest of their military. The last guesstimeate I read is that they've got less than 30% readiness.

However, that 30% can still inflict serious damage and the other 70% will do damage even if they just hit without detonating, those things are heavy as hell and would flatten buildings in the inner part of any city.

Still, my main nuclear nightmare is that they'd miss by tens of miles and I'd have to live through it.

Otherwise, I'd get it within the first hour, so no worries,

[lpbk2713]

27. Better think about your power plants Vlad.

It gets colder in Moscow than it does in Kyiv.