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Americans won't organize to do one goddamn thing about this, any more than they will about anything else existentially threatening. We don't know how to do that. We're all afraid of each other. Everyone has guns so no one wants to make a big fuss over something as weird and abstract as nuclear war when we all know guns might be levelled against us at any moment, just to shut up the troublemaker.

The Biden/Congressional lunatics know they have nothing to fear from the somnolent consumers fictitiously referred to as "citizens." We don't even discuss these things unless it's with a family member or close confidant who we know feels the same way. We abdicated our responsibility as citizens of a mythic democracy long ago. Now, we're mere spectators awaiting the conflagration we did nothing to prevent.

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The only saving grace here may be that F-16s are so different from the planes that Ukrainian pilots have flown before that they have no chance of being capable of retraining their minds to make the split-second decisions necessary to effectively operate them. The idea advertised is four months, which from what I have read is an absurd goal. However, if the NATO countries supplying these planes supply the pilots as well, that saving grace disappears.

It is astonishing that there is no recognition at all in the US mainstream media or amongst its political class that we have created a situation analogous to the two-week long Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The only differences that matter are that it has been going on for fifteen months, and that every action and pronouncement of the US government during that fifteen months has escalated the crisis. We are on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, and the only person who matters who recognizes it, and has said so publicly, is Donald J. Trump. Of course, he says he could end the conflict the day he becomes president again, so he is as ignorant and deluded as he has always been. But, still...

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Gets more and more obvious who the aggressors are. Russia "occupied" its own Crimea without a single shot and a single death. The place has not seen war since WWII. Now the "liberators" will have to kill millions to conquer it. Should Russia now "liberate" Eastern Germany?

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We're going to keep this sh*t up until we get our asses kicked again like we did on 9/11. Washington is totally out of control and dangerously bluffing their way through this conflict. They have no idea IMHO what they're facing. Russia does not bluff and with saying that, this will be the end of one, if not all of us.

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If you are surprised, don’t be this is yet another escalation by the U.S. and European warmongers.

Russia isn’t surprised they expected and planned for this very thing since the neocons are extremely predictable. Neocons only have one course of action which is to double down.

It is this very reason Russia has increased weapons and munitions production 7 fold. Russia has more than quadrupled its production of everything and continues to put new surveillance satellites in orbit, adding new submarines and surface ships.

Let’s keep in mind Russia also has several hundred thousand troops who have yet to be deployed on standby.

No one in America except the damaged brain dead should be trusting or believing anything the government and media spouts after the Covid-19 scam, mandatory vaccines and lockdowns not to mention 2020 election fraud.

Western governments have been controlled by a bunch of lying lowlife people we call politicians for decades. And today at this time it’s being confirmed for all the world to see.

Who are the people and what kind of people are they who rally behind and support this current regime.

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After the major strikes on the Ukrainian's stores in Khmelnitsky and Odessa, the great counteroffensive appears to be off...plus Zaluzhny and other top brass were hit in their bunker. Reported to be in a critical condition (no one has seen the man who gave several interviews a day for 2 weeks).

Syrskii (commander of ground forces) has gone to ground...literally, hiding in a deep bunker in Slaviansk...Zelensky has run away too it appears. 'Touring' the world asking for weapons (His handlers got him out of the country fast...will he return?) This is what happens when you cross too many of Russia's red lines.

Bakhmut is Ukraine's Stalingrad...(no Russian army casualties at all, just Wagnerites. They deployed only 26,000 to the fight, according to Ukraine military Intelligence) 22 Ukrainian Brigades, rotated up to 3 times (around 1100 casualties each rotation...even conservatively..that's like the whole British Army of casualties!...)

Javelins, Himars, Patriots, Abrams, Leopards, Depleted Uranium shells (now dust heading over Europe) and the latest Wunderwaffen, F16's will suffer the same fate as the other Nazi army weapons used against Russia in WW2. And so, from the last few days we can deduce that Russia does not need to use nuclear weapons...to attack Poland etc.. the 'west' is coming to them and getting demiltarised in the process.

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Everyone on earth should be shouting to put sanctions on the US, call for war crimes prosecutions and so much more on the criminal filth in control of our government. Biden can't fall off the stage soon enough but the people pushing his buttons need to go sooner. I hear the sound of silence once again when there is no one screaming stop. What happened to all those 200 plus organisations at the anti war rally in March? The other issue is showing these criminals for what they are gets a brief ho hum and it's back to businesses of killing people and silencing any dissent!

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The DC Swamp really hates this country to escalate the risks of WW3 in this manner. They want Russia to nuke us.

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Sounds like a step closer to nuclear war. How are all the "western" interests who are buying up Ukrainian farmland going to make productive use of it when it is a nuclear wasteland?

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Back in 2015 I heard Condoleeza Rice say that the great majority of Crimeans want to be in Russia. It's on Youtube.

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"It's all about money." -- Marnie Powers

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The Russians won't lose much sleep over the actual types of Vipers being sent. Those F-16s will most likely be the old ones (A/B models) purchased by Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and even Norway back in the 1980s. They are high-time aircraft that feature downgraded defensive electronic warfare systems, radar and avionics, as opposed to US F-16s. It will be telling if the F-16 package to Ukraine will also include Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) pods, for jamming Russian radars, like the AN/ALQ-131 or the AN/ALQ-184. We know that the AGM-88 HARM High-speed Anti-Radar Missiles are already in service with the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF), though without the AN/ASQ-213 HARM Targeting System the effectiveness of the F-16s will, like the UAF MiG-29s that were wired to fire the HARM, be limited in the air defence suppression mission against a fully-capable Russian SAM network. Also, runway improvements will be a dead giveaway to where these F-16s are based, and will put additional pressure on Ukraine's air defence assets which may be diverted from the battlefield and high-value assets in order to defend these air bases. Finally, a high level of training and coordination is needed to attack targets defended by integrated air defence systems. The Ukrainians might use drones alongside F-16s in their attacks, in something similar to what the Israelis did to the Syrians in the Bekaa Valley in 1982, but it is a different ballgame when facing experienced and highly trained and equipped Russian SAM operators as opposed to enemies equipped with earlier-generation monkey-models of such weapons systems. And then there is the Russian Air Force, with its superior and demonstrated Beyond Visual Range (BVR)-capable fighter aircraft, to contend with. Overall, the addition of the F-16 to Ukraine's warfighting arsenal is not going win the war for them, and one can bet on Crimea, which is the home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, will have the highest density of defensive weapon systems in preparation for any UAF air offensive involving the Viper.

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Isn't this just a globalist agenda.. F-16s are just as useless as any weapons the west sends to 'Ukraine' as if is still a viable country. They have to be piloted by US or NATO as Ukraine pilots are trained with the MIG, SUKOY set up... Lettuce have a little think about this....

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The Hiroshima setting was intentional.

Remember, the US only nuked Japan to make a "symbolic" point to the Soviet Union.

Biden and Co. are cynically and derangedly (is that a word?) doing EXACTLY the same thing. It's an open - not even thinly veiled - threat. This is Kubrik live.

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But the US is not at war with Russia or anything.

In other news, All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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Russia doesn't fear threats of outdated F-16s flown by fledgling pilots who have no landing strips.

They would not use hypersonics with nuclear warheads until it at least got as far one landing an attack on Crimea, Russia.

That's not to say this vapid attempt at brinksmanship isn't a reckless and stupid money-laundering scam at base.

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