Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.
After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.
The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Russia has lost half a dozen ships to a nation with no navy. And they want to throw down with one as experienced as the UK? “Attacking the home of Storm Shadow missiles is a good thing” is the thought of an idiot.
The Russian navy does not seem to have a defense against explody things in the water. It seems like an oversight, but I’m not a military strategist.
They’re still following their WWII and czarist military doctrine of “we have more people and resources than you”. It’s a shame that Russian military leadership will forever be associated with this instead of having a second chance to demonstrate the actual might and strategy of Trotsky’s red army.
It sometimes seems like being in power in Russia destroys your ability to have sensible military strategy
You don’t rise in the ranks of the Russian military by being competent, you rise by kissing enough asses and having the right connections.
RIP Trosky. fuck Stalin the absolute cowered
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now, to be very upfront about this: I do NOT want to fuck around and find out, but…
it wouldn’t surprise me if Russia’s entire nuclear arsenal is in a similar state of repair.
Even if the warheads are working I would question everything else.
siphon out the jetfuel for their heaters.
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They have a lot of them, odds are at least some of them still work.