woodguru

It doesn't seem like Putin fears much about recriminations from the rest of the world, he has tauntingly used chemical weapons in many situations from assassinating adversaries with long slow deaths from radiation or toxin poisoning with exotic materials that only Putin has access to...he knows what he does has no real plausible deniability, and was in fact flipping the rest of the world off and daring them to do anything.

With Obama and Biden they hit him with sanctions that hurt, trump never imposed any that didn't come from congress, and even then he was reticent about carrying them out.

Putin my be thinking he needs real shock and awe to bolster the expected false f**g "attacks" he will use as an excuse to attack the Ukraine...it is a very real worry that he will use chemical weapons and try to say the Ukraine did it, thinking the anger clouds people's thinking.

I'm not sure but what Biden and NATO would not be forced to rain down with full on destruction of Russian missile installations and airbases. We have B-52 squadrons stationed in allied countries within easy striking distance.

My guess is that it would be controlled responses to the involved missile and air bases sanctioned chemical weapons were carried out from, but the danger is that autocrats follow no pattern of equivalent responses, they go by the trump crap of hit back ten times harder, which takes things to full on escalation.

Putin is dangerous because he has at least 50% of his military resources sitting in one concentrated spot, and that makes them vulnerable for a small period to concentrated and effective surgical strikes.

You can bet the timing of Putin's "war exercises" this weekend are the real thing, and any incursions need to be counter struck immediately with no screwing around, or it turns into a way harder thing to quell. The first Russian strikes will be about softening Ukrainian defenses that can hurt Putin's tanks or planes.

This could be a far hotter war kickoff than we saw in Iraq.

Smedley_buzkill

Biden's ideas of serious consequences for Russia means he will only abandon half as much military equipment to them as he did to the Taliban. I wonder if he will s**t his pants while he talks to Putin? After all, he may think Putin is another Pope.Even Obama said "never underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up."

vernon

For your information obama and FJB gave russia Crimea and I'm sure putin thinks FJB will fold again. Putin has a larger army than you give him credit for. I think putin has the resources to k**l a bunch of b52s it won't be as easy
as you seem to think.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Still siding with Putin ?
Looks like you might be the biggest c****e lover here.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

So, stating facts is being a c****e lover. Try this. The Russian Ambassador to one of the Nordic countries stated, when asked about US threats; ”We don’t give a sh*t what they say.” In his decades long tenure in the Senate, he has NEVER understood, nor gotten, any foreign policy correct. That is not being a c****e lover. That is fact.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Can you imagine B-52-s going up against Russian 2022 technology? They certainly won't pull out their circa 1966 anti air defense measures, that much is certain!!!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! B-52's!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gatsby

Your obvious ignorance of Russia's S-400 SAM system, and its capabilities, is enlightening.

rjoeholl

Miloser, if you really h**ed c*******ts you'd be a Republican.

vernon

Whats this siding with putin crap? Don't you realize the danger FJB has put us in with his blundering and '
ignorance.