#Russia nuclear blackmailing

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

#russo ukrainian war #russia nuclear threat #Russia nuclear blackmailing #fuck putin #war in ukraine #Ukraine #russia war #russia is a terrorist state #Russia is a genocidal Fascist state that must be stopped. #political #timothy snyder #arm ukraine now #fuck russia #current events #world issues

[loumands]

Taking back what i said about feeling like shit this morning just opened the news and saw that Trump is getting indicted AND Turkey finally ratified Finland's membership. I'm in a great mood now! Bitch!

#or somewhat conflicted feelings about the latter one but at least it's over now #months and months of erdogan going back and forth on his words and trying to blackmail #all the while russian planes are constantly violating our airspace and russian government officials are threatening with nuclear weapons #just an everyday experience of being russia's neighbour! #keanu.txt

[alephskoteinos]

Russia must lose

Russia must lose. Ukraine must win.

That's the reality that emerges from the picture of the Russian invasion as it stands since it began almost a year ago. We know already from leaked Russian army documents that the Russian state considers itself a "last bastion of Christian civilization", and that they consider their enemies to be a "satanic new world order" that must be defeated, we've already seen them rev up the occult/religious aspect of its conflict for months by framing Ukrainians as devil worshippers and galvanizing the Russian Orthodox Church, and we know already that this is one of the reasons why Russia is not going to stop until either they capture Kyiv or they can't.

I go over a lot of the details of Russian Satanic Panic in this article:

And to some extent more in another article about Satanic Panic at large:

But if you need anything else to illustrate my point, take a look at what Russian Orthodox priests have been seen telling Russian soldiers:

The priest explicitly says "There can be no mercy for Satan, no matter what shape it takes. Soldier, old woman, child, they are all one, the spawn of hell.", and then says "Let not your hand tremble to aim a bullet or a shell at God's enemies.". This is literally the Russian Orthodox Church instructing Russian soliders to commit genocide on the grounds that the war is actually Armageddon, a war of "good" versus "evil". They're going to kill anyone they think are Satanists, or pagans, in the name of their God.

The reality that emerges from this is that Russia must lose, and also that Ukraine must win. Russia must be defeated and then its current regime must collapse. Do not fall for the nuclear blackmail that the Russian state propounds and then the so-called "anti-war" people propagate for them. Even Vladimir Putin is not such a "mad dog" that he'll destroy all the land he wants Russia to take over and then Russia itself in a hail of nuclear fire, and since he knows what this would mean for himself and his government we have to assume the nuclear threat is nothing more than a ploy for Russia to intimidate the world into letting it capture Ukraine unopposed. But that capture cannot be allowed to happen. If it does, it would mean a major victory for Christian traditionalism or Christofascism on a global geopolitical stage, and not to mention oppression and genocide for the peoples that Putin's Russia drags under its heel, and certainly for everyone that does not conform to its Christiofascist agenda.

The so-called "anti-war" people have no answer to this. They don't care. They only care merely for how to present themselves as "anti-war", how to preserve some false sense of "peace" no matter how unjust, or simply the fact that it has come to this at all. There is only question they must answer: what do they expect Ukraine and its allies to do, if not fight Russia, in the face of their explicit religious call to commit genocide against Ukrainians on the grounds that they are Satan? I fear that they cannot answer it, or at least not adequately.

So to reiterate: Russia must lose, and Ukraine must win. Nothing else can suffice.

#ukraine #russia #ukraine russia war #christianity #satanism #anti-fascism #satanic panic #russian orthodox church #nuclear blackmail #Youtube

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#NO to putin's blackmail #no surrender #no appeasement #no fear #no pasaran #russia will crack first #russia nuclear blackmail #nato #usa #ukraine war #end of the russian state #stop russian invasion #i stand against soviet/russian imperialism #i stand with ukraine

[politicoscope]

Oh Dear! Kiev Uses Nuke Blackmail to Extort Western Money

Oh Dear! Kiev Uses Nuke Blackmail to Extort Western Money

Ukraine is trying to extract more financial and military aid from the US and other Western countries by using “nuclear blackmail,” possibly including the deployment of a dirty bomb against its own people to escalate the crisis in Eastern Europe, Russia’s Foreign Ministry suggested on Thursday. “Kiev uses nuclear blackmail is to extort more Western financial aid, including the large amounts of…

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#Nuclear Blackmail #Nuke Blackmail #Russia-Ukraine War #Ukraine War #War and Conflicts

[olekciy]

    A short reminder that Russia is imperialist, has been imperialist for a long time, and there's no way around that fact.

Sections of the Western left have developed a narrative according to which Russia has been gradually surrounded by NATO and that supposedly "provoked" Putin. It's increasingly difficult to sustain the notion that Russia is simply "defending itself" after 24 February 2022, but the thing is - the invasion did not come out of the blue. One needs a different narrative to understand what Russia actually is: an aggressive imperialist power alongside other imperialisms.

So, a different narrative:

- 1994: Russia, with US support, acquires Ukrainian nuclear arsenal in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity

- 1997: Russia acquires the Sevastopol naval base and almost all of the ships (82%, to be exact)... in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity!

- 2004: Russia meddles in Ukrainian presidential elections, fighting hard to force an undemocratic fraudulent outcome, but fails

- Mid-to-late 2000s: As punishment for Ukraine electing Yushchenko, Russia uses energy blackmail, a form of economic coercion not very different from the IMF and World Bank lending and conditionality

- 2008: NATO refuses to adopt a roadmap towards Ukraine's membership and in effect postpones the decision indefinitely. Ukraine's security is in no way guaranteed, while Russia has already demonstrated the propensity to use coercion to force Ukraine to do its bidding

- 2009: Dmitry Medvedev, then president, writes to Yushchenko that "Russia does not pose and cannot pose any kind of threat to Ukraine", so seeking NATO membership is stupid. Yea, sure

- 2014: Russia, which "does not pose and cannot pose a threat to Ukraine"... annexes Crimea. Really, Dima?? I thought you were for real??

Of course, by annexing Crimea Russia not only makes all the previous statements that it "can never pose a threat to Ukraine" a ridiculous lie, but also breaks the 1994 memorandum and 1997 treaty. "We are the Kremlin. Our word is worth nothing"

- Crimea's annexation provokes armed separatism in Donbas that Russia supports and coordinates, including direct military command and control, and then completely subordinates Donbas "authorities", in effect occupying the region

- Ukraine's still not in NATO, its security is still in no way guaranteed, and the supplies of US weapons only begin in 2018. They are kept to a minimum... out of fear of provoking Russia!

- Nevertheless, on 24 February 2022 Russia launches a full-scale invasion to establish 100% control over all of Ukraine in one way or another. There is literally no military development on the ground that could have provoked the invasion. On Russia's part, it's a war of choice in exactly the same way the invasion of Iraq was a war of choice for the US in 2003.

Now, this is only the general outline. One should add Russia's drowning of Ukraine with spies and agents of influence, money to corrupt Ukrainian politicians and massive acquisition of Ukrainian assets to impose economic and political dependency.

These are well-known facts, but so many on the left refuse to see the story behind them. It's a story of decades of imperialist aggression, culminating in a war that cost 150,000 lives in 2022 alone. Any discussion of left-wing internationalism should begin with recognizing the reality of what Russia is and what it did.

#ukraine war #ukraine #imperialism #left #russian imperialism #russian ukrainian war #russia #policy #war #nato #russian chauvinism #anti-imperialism #history

[misfitwashere]

The Neighbor's House is on Fire

You have a good neighbor.  He does a lot for you.  He keeps the street clean around your house.  He mows your lawn when you are away.  He signs for your packages and brings them to you later.  Your kids go and play with his kids in the backyard.  He has an alarm on his house with a camera, which you don't, and he once ran burglars away from your house.  He's done a thing or two for you that you haven't noticed.  Like the time he stopped a crew from mistakenly taking down a tree in your front yard.  And the time he found your cat outside, on the street, and gave it to your kid.

And now your neighbor's house has caught fire.  The flames are just now visible.  There's plenty of time to react.  In fact, you happen to be standing nearby, at exactly the right place, watering your garden, with a hose in your hand.  The flames are in easy reach.  Your neighbor runs to you and asks you to just turn the water in the direction of the flame. 

You refuse.  You turn off the water and walk away.  And then you hurry down to your basement and shut off the valve, just to make sure your neighbor can't be helped. 

All you had do was flick your wrist, turn the hose in the right direction.  But you didn't.  It wouldn't have cost you anything.  A nickel on your water bill that you wouldn't notice. 

And if you had helped, you'd have been a hero.  Your neighbor would remember you, as would the press, as would your kids, as would everyone.  But you chose not to help.  Your neighbor's house burns down. 

And then yours does, too.

This is, currently, our Ukraine policy. We are choosing to let a good neighbor burn.  Ukraine does things for us that we need, and often that we neglect to do ourselves, or cannot do ourselves.  It does things for us that we do not notice. 

These are not small things.  By resisting Russia, Ukraine shows the world that there are people who care about democracy enough to take risks for it.  It reduces the risk of nuclear proliferation and nuclear war by showing that nuclear blackmail does not work.  It maintains the international legal order.  It fulfills the NATO mission by absorbing and reversing a Russian attack, making war elsewhere in Europe very unlikely.  It deters China from risky action in the Pacific by showing how difficult offensive operations are. 

These are all hugely important American interests, most of which we cannot fulfill ourselves.  Ukraine can fulfill them, if we help, just a little, in ways we would not even notice.

Ukraine is on fire.  In the past few days, Russia has launched something like five hundred rockets and drones at Ukrainian civilians, including nearly a hundred drones on New Year's Eve.  Russia continues to undertake offensive operations in Ukraine.  Russian propagandists and Russian leaders continue to announce the same genocidal war aims now as at the beginning of the war: the end of the Ukrainian state and the end of the Ukrainian nation.  Ukrainian citizens under Russian occupation continue to be tortured and deported.  

Ukraine resists, very effectively, with the weapons it has.  It has opened the Black Sea to trade, something that no one expected.  It is holding back the Russian advance, inflicting huge casualties.  It is shooting down missiles and drones.  (If you want to help detect the drones, which is a matter of urgency, please make a contribution to my Safe Skies campaign here).

So we are standing here with easy access to water.  It would be so easy to help.  And yet we are turning away from our neighbor in need.  Ukraine needs our support, and some of our Congressional representatives are blocking it.

The amount in question is not meaningful, given what we spend on national security.  It is about a nickel on the defense budget dollar.  

And that nickel is extremely well spent!  The defense department budget, after all, is meant to keep us safe.  That nickel on the dollar brings us security in the Atlantic and the Pacific, it brings us a reduced risk of nuclear war and a greatest international respect for law, it brings us the sense that we have friends who take risks for good things.  There is no other nickel on the defense department dollar that is nearly so important as this one. 

And, in fact, we don't even really spend that nickel on Ukraine.  Most of the defense money we nominally spend on Ukraine actually stays in the United States.  The arms Ukraine needs are in large measure weapons that your tax dollars would otherwise be spent to decommission -- to destroy and throw away.  For example, we have about a thousand long-range missiles that we will soon pay tax money to take apart and drop in landfills.  Those missiles, given instead to Ukraine, would seriously hinder Russian attacks, and put Ukraine in a position to win the war.

We are turning off the water.  Running down to then basement, caught in some strange self-destructive fit of self-absorption, we are putting our own house at risk.  Ignoring our neighbor is the worst thing we can do, even if all we care about is ourselves. 

Everything that the Ukrainians are doing for us can be undone this year.  Russia can win, and be encouraged to start other wars, where our participation is likely to be much more direct.  China can be encouraged, and we can find ourselves in a cataclysm over Taiwan.  International order can break down, and we can confront confusing, difficult, and painful conflicts all over the world.  Russia can halt food deliveries to Asia and Africa, leading to starvation and further war.  Everyone can be demoralized by the realization that those who risked their lives for democracy were sold out, just because Americans lacked the wherewithal to what is obviously the right thing.

It doesn't have to be that way.  It's easy to help a good neighbor.  This is a conflagration that we can stop with a flick of the wrist.  A bit of legislation to support Ukraine, and we all have a safer year, and safer lives.

© 2024 Timothy Snyder

#foreign policy #domestic affairs #ukraine #timothy snyder

[amerasdreams]

-The Ukrainians are defending the legal order established after the Second World War.  They have performed the entire NATO mission of absorbing and reversing an attack by Russia with a tiny percentage of NATO military budgets and zero losses from NATO members. Ukrainians are making a war in the Pacific much less likely by demonstrating to China that offensive operations are harder than they seem.  They have made nuclear war less likely by demonstrating that nuclear blackmail need not work.  Ukraine is also fighting to restore its grain exports to Africa and Asia, where millions of people have been put at risk by Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian economy.  Last but not least, Ukrainians are demonstrating that a democracy can defend itself.

-Tim Snyder

#Ukraine #war #russia #USA #china #nato

[godisarepublican]

Mike Johnson Betrays America

Biden is way too old, he's senile so he can almost be forgiven for paying the Ukraine to launch terrorist attacks on Russia, flirting with nuclear war. But Mike Johnson has no such excuses.

Apparently the House of Representatives is ready to increase the size of the budget deficit for an undeserving Ukraine.

Johnson has bent over for Biden!

I wonder what they're blackmailing him with?

#Treason #Bow to Europe #Nuclear war #Biden #suck my freedom #god is a republican #donald trump #kyle rittenhouse #gop #republicans #conservatives #trump #make america great again #congress #2024 presidential election

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

#russia nuclear blackmail again #ukraine #russia war in ukraine #fuck russia #russia terrorist state #current events #russia nuclear threat #stop russia #Timothy Snyder said it best that constantly letting dictators get away with Blackmail only leads to more usable world #why Russia sucks #political

[taiwantalk]

Elon musk thinks starlink is the only one option. he’s greatly mistaken and thinks he’s the one to prevent nuclear war.

Elon musk ain’t gonna be much of any good for stopping russia from destroying nuclear power plants or the dam. he’s not any good preventing ukraine to use starlink but to handicap ukraine.

If we have elon musk in ww2, we’d be fucked. elon musk cannot tell the difference between appeasement and doing the right thing to fight the evil russia that can trigger nuclear war no matter what starlink can do.

what a dumb fuck elon musk is. if he can alone stop nuclear war by not allowing ukraine to use starlink in crimea, that makes Elon musk complicit in blackmailing the world with nuclear war.

#ukraine #russia #taiwantalk #starlink #Elon musk

[koichizeni-dunkminimi]

for all those who still believe that only Putin is to blame for the war, and the people do not support the war :^) what do you say about this?

scrolling through the comments in Russian media in Telegram under the news that Erdogan supports Ukraine's joining NATO, I came across very interesting words:

Translate: it is possible, while we building a nuclear power plant for them (Turks), to lay a detonator just in case ..?

nuclear blackmail as is typical for Russia.

#ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #war #stand with ukraine #russia must burn #power plant #turkiye

[pettania]

Russia is blackmailing the whole world. What is currently happening at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe captured by the occupiers?

The Zaporizhzhia NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) has been under the occupation of Russian troops for more than five months. Up to 500 Russian military personnel have been at the ZNPP site since the day it was captured.

Ukrainian personnel of the station continues to work in inhumane conditions, taking all measures to ensure nuclear and radiation safety for Ukraine and the whole world.

On August 5-6, the occupiers fired several shots at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Two employees of the station received shrapnel injuries. They were hospitalized.

After the attacks, serious damage was recorded at the station, there was a fire, and the fourth power unit had to be shut down. The station operates with the risk of violating radiation and fire safety regulations.

On August 8, the occupiers announced that they had mined the ZNPP and threatened to blow up the facility. The mining of power units was also confirmed by Ukrainian intelligence.

Ukraine considers this nuclear terror.

[scope-dogg]

Biden’s approach to foreign policy is so so frustrating, because while I think he takes the right stance on most issues but his actions on those same issues are so wrong and half-assed.

Ends US presence in Afghanistan: the war there is unpopular, withdrawal is probably the right choice, however he does it in the most sudden and disorganised way possible, fails to predict the country’s more or less immediate fall to the Taliban and transformation into a nightmare of human rights abuses and humanitarian crisis.

Russia invades Ukraine: condemns invasion, imposes sanctions and sends aid. However sanctions are full of holes and ultimately don’t do enough to staunch Russian military procurement, aid is pretty much always in too small amounts wand forces Kyiv to beg for months for crucial systems like tanks, artillery, aircraft, air defense and long range precision weapons, when he eventually caves in and they arrive it’s always too late to make the difference they could have had. Constantly and seemingly eagerly broadcasts that he’s terrified by Russian nuclear blackmail which emboldens Putin to keep doubling down. Gets cucked by Republican sabotage. War drags out and keeps getting bloodier and bloodier with more and worse Russian atrocities when it could have long been over or never even started if he’d taken a stronger stance to begin with.

Venezuela starts saber rattling and threatening to invade Guyana: condemns, starts subtly broadcasting that US is considering intervention by organising small-scale exercise with Guyana. However fails to unequivocally state that US will definitely oppose Maduro, months later he starts saber rattling and trying his luck again. US has nothing to lose by putting its foot down and staying the Venezuelan aggression won’t be tolerated, relations with Venezuela are already poor and the country is too weak to threaten the US, but despite this the prospect of this becoming yet another flashpoint still lingers.

Gaza crisis: takes reasonable stance that Israel has the right to retaliate and rescue hostages following g 10/7 terror attack. When it becomes apparent that Israel is failing to comply with laws of war and is deliberately exacerbating dire humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, does actually criticise Netanyahu, but consistently undercuts himself with actual actions, such as leaping to Israel’s defense yesterday against Iranian retaliatory attack when it’s Israel that provoked it through a brazen embassy strike. This way, despite publicly criticising Israeli conduct, essentially rubber stamps the idea that Netanyahu can do what he wants no matter how outrageous and still count on Western support. Any actual criticism of Israel’s provocative conduct in the region and atrocious humanitarian record is constantly overshadowed by parroting “Israel has the right to defend itself!” as if that’s the only consideration that really matters in all this. As a result the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues and reflexive US support of Israel continues to be an albatross around the West’s neck.

I think the history books will attribute the current descent into global chaos to Biden’s weakness, and if the US does lose its status as the guarantor of and guardian of the global political order I think it will all end up being laid at his feet.

[alcestas-sloboda]

I mean, I don't like cluster munitions, but then again I don't like mines either (for about the same reasons), but it's impossible to deny the good mines have done for defending Ukraine

They pose a danger down the line, but russia poses a danger now, and I'm a hell of a lot angrier about russia using mines in Ukraine than Ukrainians using them in their own land

I'm not exactly happy the US has cluster munitions, but kind of like with all of the military industrial complex here it's like... well... let's at least do some good with it and give it to the people fighting for freedom

So no, I don't want to see cluster munitions used, but like... russia could just fuck off back into their own borders and this would all be over

I'm not about to condemn Ukrainians for using them. We need to just hand over what it takes to win this war

Just gets tiring when it's crickets over a major dam being blown, but the idea of giving certain weapons is treated as just unforgivable

Yeah... they're bad weapons, that's kind of what all weapons are... bad stuff that exists just to kill, but uh... I kind of care more about the missiles hitting residential buildings than I do if Ukraine deploys a weapon against valid military targets

Sorry about the long ask, just annoys me

no you are absolutely right and cluster munitions were forbidden for a good reason but again this war has shown us that the enemy (russians) don’t give a damn about rules of war. they have broken every law possible starting from using the cluster munitions to bombing civilian infrastructure, hospitals and using nuclear blackmail. so what really pisses me off is exactly what prompted you to write this ask: for some reason only Ukrainians should follow the rules, only Ukrainians, who, I must remind you, are protecting their land, that are being supervised under a microscope, but not russians. HRW and other similar organisations are genuinely writing articles on how Ukrainians endanger Ukrainian civilians? no, the only people who are endangering Ukrainian civilians are russians, and as someone said: russian tanks on Ukrainian land is so much more dangerous than cluster munitions in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers who are liberating their land.

[kyistell]

May we have some NY and NJ hc’s? Like- stuff that they do together and how they act with each other? 👁️👁️

*its fine if not*

Hehe I was super excited to do this one but sadly I do things in order of oldest to newest BUT none the less, here you go, our favorite stupid bastards

New Jersey and New York-

Jersey likes to cuddle and York likes receiving cuddles, so it isn’t uncommon to find the two together in the North living room

Jersey = Jer-bear, York = Yorka-doodle, they never call each other these in front of others

They go skating a ton, early morning public skate and public hockey are mainly what they do

Always fighting when it comes to certain foods, specifically pizza and bagels, otherwise they are perfect with each other in the kitchen

Jersey sends York stupid stuff from Tumblr, York does the same but with Twitter

Impromptu sleepovers in York's room happen a lot, York has sleep problems and as said before, Jersey cuddles, win win sitch

They fight, a lot, technically it’s just arguments but to pretty much everyone except the NE, it sounds like fighting (granted the NE sometimes thinks they are genuinely fighting but shh)

“Murder is illegal”  “You can’t murder people it’s rude” etc. are said whenever they are in the city

Despite not talking to each other for about 40ish years, they went right back to how they were before, if just a bit closer

They both fake hate each other, for no reason other than seeing the shocked faces of the other states while they simply cook breakfast together

Just Dance Night (the other states get flashbacks when ever they hear the Just Dance intro)

They like to just exist in the same space, doesn’t matter if they are doing two completely different things, they’ll continue to hang out VIRGINIA

They bet on everything, who will get to the table faster, who will make breakfast the quickest without messing up, everything

They always think to message the other first when something is happening, doesn’t matter if the sitch doesn’t really need the other, they still will

Since Jersey still speaks fluent Dutch and York has his broken messed up Dutch that Jersey understands, they will ‘gossip’ to each other in front of the other states

When they do that, they are really just talking about dinner plans and what movies they should see, but in the most condescending and judgmental tone they can

Movie dates, any movie whether they think it’ll be good or not

They sometimes come of as very big and little brother coded, York being the older while Jerseys the younger, when in reality it’s switched

Jersey finds it hilarious whenever people think he and York are dating, they aren’t, they consider each other brothers and technically are, York always wants to kill the people who do think they are dating, “Murder is Illegal Yorkie” he doesn’t care

Family dinners are once a month with Jersey’s moms and occasionally not, father, father, and York's grandparents

They have so much dirt on each other that if one says something so will the other, you know the nuclear deal between America and Russia? Yeah it’s basically that but with blackmail

If one’s sick the others clingy, if one's sad the others clingy, if one-

They like to dance with each other, even if there’s no music (it’s mainly spinning without music though)

Jersey has bad English days sometimes, so York will translate, on those days they tend to just haul up in York's room and put on a random Hockey game

#welcome to the table #wttt #wttt new jersey #wttsh new jersey #wttt new york #wttsh new york #wttt headcanons #eeehehehe #is it obvious i love these two? #they can be so wholesome #and so very deadly #the best only technically brothers ever #or the worst depending on how you look at it #their relationship is weird to everyone expect the OG13 #and really the OG13 think its a weird type of normal #they do so much with each other i feel #like yeah they do things with the other states but lets be honest #a good chunk of their time is with each other if they are with someone #kyi requests