Putin says Ukraine war is going global
Source: Reuters via Yahoo News
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons, and warned the West that Moscow could strike back.
Russia, Putin said, had responded to the use of U.S. and British missiles by firing a new kind of hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a Ukrainian military facility. More could follow, Putin warned. He said civilians would be warned ahead of further strikes with such weapons.
After approval from the administration of President Joe Biden, Ukraine struck Russia with six U.S.-made ATACMS on Nov. 19 and with British Storm Shadow missiles and U.S.-made HIMARS on Nov. 21, Putin said.
"From that moment, as we have repeatedly underscored, a regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character," Putin said in an address to the nation carried by state television after 8 pm Moscow time (1700 GMT).
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wcmagumba
(3,326 posts)proud patriot
(101,244 posts)wah wah
COL Mustard
(7,051 posts)Putin complaining about Ukraine fighting a war that he started. Some people just don't know what's good for them.
Hassler
(3,838 posts)JustAnotherGen
(33,981 posts)And is lashing out. This fucking guy!
love_katz
(2,886 posts)Eat it, Voldemort.
Baitball Blogger
(48,722 posts)Irish_Dem
(61,069 posts)So now he is threatening a world war.
blm
(113,893 posts)its Ukraine
cstanleytech
(27,246 posts)Doodley
(10,452 posts)mdbl
(5,562 posts)I don't know if it will help Putin or not this time.
PortTack
(34,982 posts)Also the EU has released 300 billion in frozen russian oligarch funds for Ukraine.
Putie talks a big game.
canuckledragger
(1,992 posts)Do it and you KNOW Russia will be no more. You don't have the troops, or the firepower, thanks to Ukraine.
And all this could be over right now if you just got your cowardly ass out of Ukraine and left them alone.
LudwigPastorius
(11,271 posts)YOU are the one who launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, party, from another country. (Belarus)
YOU are the one who has first enlisted troops from another country. (North Korea)
If you want to see a response with a "global character" just try your bullshit with a NATO signatory.
Karasu
(368 posts)Skittles
(160,770 posts)indeed
PSPS
(14,224 posts)Anything to help his criminal cohorts putin and bibi. He's already signaled that the US will be a russian satellite state.
Woodycall
(354 posts)...is a NATO fast-attack submarine. Behind less than 1/2 of NATO's (US) ballistic missile submarines, is a Russian fast-attack submarine. And behind each and every one of those, is a NATO (US) fast-attack submarine with vastly superior capabilities. And Putin knows this. So, sleep tight...
ancianita
(39,082 posts)He thinks Elon and Trump will fall in line.
Aussie105
(6,553 posts)Not wanting Russia to keep spreading west, I guess.
Were Putin's generals too frightened to speak up when he came up with the plan?
Javaman
(63,233 posts)russia has been fighting a global war since 2014.
PortTack
(34,982 posts)hueymahl
(2,679 posts)It chills me to the bone that we are as close to nuclear war as we have been since the end of the cold war.
sarisataka
(21,363 posts)and war in general since the attack on Ukraine.
My worry is that people are starting to believe nuclear war can be "winnable"
hueymahl
(2,679 posts)I hope we come to our senses, both here and in the wider world.
sarisataka
(21,363 posts)kelly1mm
(5,463 posts)Kaleva
(38,749 posts)sarisataka
(21,363 posts)I have seen people advocate giving Ukraine nuclear weapons, dismissing Russian nuclear weapons as no threat and the popular "the fallout will go on Russia", neglecting the weapons that caused the fall out likely killed tens of thousands of people.
There is a growing attitude, at least here, that nukes are "just another weapon". The incoming administration has shown they have more than a little of the same view...
Gore1FL
(22,032 posts)Putin is simply saber rattling. I'm having a hard time taking anything he says seriously given the overall state of the Russian military and economy. Additionally, if they nuke a neighbor to the west, the fallout will travel across Russian territory as a matter of weather patterns.
He isn't going to do it. If he does, it'll fuck Russia more than anyone else.
Kaleva
(38,749 posts)Putin very likely is bluffing. What would Russia gain from it other then annihilation?
republianmushroom
(18,459 posts)Butterflylady
(4,043 posts)Laughing his a** off. We need someone with experience in diplomatic experience. Little Marco ain't no match against Putin.
Cthulu on call
(45 posts)Of course Trump can stop this all by proving that he's Putins bitch.