NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war.
You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed. Any attack on American soil is open season on tearing up American rights and freedoms. We are still getting buttfucked by the Patriot act and it's been 24 years since it was signed. You really think Trump is going to ignore all his fellow potheads hothead and turn the other cheek to infallible power?
Worth bearing in mind that we never actually retaliated against the power most closely tied to the attackers.
Most of the people involved were Saudi and they may have had Saudi assistance. Instead we invaded Afghanistan where he was for a period of time, and Iraq who had nothing to do with anything.
So Russia attacking the US could plausibly result in us suspending habeus corpus, abolishing the FDA and spending a decade embroiled in a land war in Azerbaijan.
Well, not just American rights and freedoms. You know, all those US actions and UN votes and vetoes that seem to have only one thing in common - that people in the Middle-East must suffer. It's as if the American deep state, if such a thing exists, were still punishing them for daring to bring some of the pain to US as feedback.
You know, when the white master erases a couple of cities or does a genocide or two, they were trying for your good, it just went wrong, no hard feelings. And when you respond - you dare, you should be punished.
My tinfoil theory is that Trump and Putin are going to secretly coordinate a direct attack on a Democrat city with a WMD. Trump will then say some BS about not wanting to escalate the war with a shit eating smile
More likely would be trump doing exactly what Putin did to secure power. Plant a dirty bomb on your own people and blame someone to start a war. That someone would be democrats which would justify the “enemy within” rhetoric. He wouldn’t be able to do this right away because the “enemy” are illegal immigrants right now so after that has been going in say 3-4 years I’d reckon we’ll see a bomb or two.
I feel like this would be perfect reason for him and the rest of the Republican Party to justify getting rid of term limits and then scrapping the next election. If trump dies before the next election then they would just use it to scrap the next election
Well that would be a quick way to get a million Americans to rip him out of the White House while the Police and Military go look at very interesting things anywhere but D.C. I don't doubt he could be that stupid, but I do doubt the government would just sit back and allow it. Between NORAD and FBI Counter Terror there would be alarms ringing. And if they succeeded we'd know exactly what happened.
I'd hope that would be horrific and plain enough to be the "come to Jesus" moment that would start a widespread coup against him. Or at the very least cause one (1) USSS agent to pull their SIG and put one in his head for the team.
Somehow I think they would have found another reason if we hadn't authorized deeper strikes. This was literally one of their prototypes, they are just now starting production. It's not something they held back, graciously waiting to use it because the Ukrainians were so polite in their war fighting.
I wouldn't say useless. anything they can use to blow up strategic targets is going to help them. It's just a hilariously inefficient use of the new missile.
If test results are expected to be partially falsified by corrupt executors - then relying on your actual enemy to deliver those results makes some sense.
Oh yeah. No doubt. That's not what I'm saying. Putin is claiming this is a measured retaliation and not a test they would have conducted no matter what. Which is hilarious.
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize the rules were that the defending country had to stay on their side of the line. So Russia can invade neighbors with impunity, but striking Russian soil is just too far.
If you hit someone, dont be surprised when they hit back. Russia can always go home. They are escalating every day they stay. Ukraine needs to be more armed then maybe russia gets the message.
You're right, I think that Nato should start sending over some soldiers to "help" out the Ukrainians, the way that the Russians have brought in North Koreans.