Reuters- Putin says West will be fighting directly with Russia if it lets Kyiv use long-range missiles (www.reuters.com)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 09:39 next collapse
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PugJesus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 09:47 next collapse

Okay. Send in Poland to end the war. They’ll be thrilled, I’m sure.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 10:14 next collapse

At this point, I think Estonia could do it alone.

twistypencil@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:54 collapse

I know some Estonians, they could do it while black out drunk

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:12 collapse

Easy loophole. Tell Eastern European countries they can do whatever the hell they want. I think several have a score to settle with Russia.

But seriously if Putin would prefer to not have deep strikes into Russia, then maybe we could meet him halfway – send a NATO coalition to Ukraine and steamroll Russia out. Including from Crimea.

AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today on 13 Sep 09:49 next collapse

Ok 👍

Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works on 13 Sep 09:58 next collapse

The russian army is entirely bound in its invasion into Ukraine. If it weren’t for the threat of nuclear annihilation, NATO would get to Moscow within 3 days. A true 3-day military operation.

PugJesus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 10:02 next collapse

No, no, don’t worry, they still have their secondary army of sad conscripts (poor people only, don’t worry) who are ritually tortured for a year as a rite of adulthood.

Chainweasel@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 10:14 collapse

I’m pretty sure that’s the army they’re using at the moment, I remember seeing news stories of elderly Farmers being conscripted over a year ago

PugJesus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 10:17 collapse

There’s a second, even-sadder army behind that one. In the Donbass, (previously? Not sure how it is now) legally distinct from Russia itself, they were just mass-conscripting people for the meat grinder. The actual Russian citizens in Ukraine, though, are overwhelmingly volunteers (and overwhelmingly impoverished ethnic minorities) who were bribed or tortured during their rite of adulthood until they said “Dying in Ukraine is better than this” and ‘voluntarily’ signed a service contract.

mkwt@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:03 next collapse
  1. Even with nuclear annihilation, NATO could still get to Moscow in a three day operation. It’s just a question of which cities back home are still standing.

  2. Moscow is not the big prize you might think it is. Russia can just retreat hundreds of kilometers further east and carry on.

  3. NATO can do the thunder run, but they are not equipped to win a massive land war in Asia. You really gotta listen to the Sicilian from Princess Bride on this one.

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:28 next collapse

If nukes started popping off, there’d be zero reason to send in ground forces until it was all over. Lastly, I’m not convinced Russia’s nuclear program is much better off than NATO’s. So many interviews with nuke watch officers talking about how old and decrepit our silos are. The DoD supposedly approved a modernization package a few years ago for all of them, but I’m still skeptical how efficient the targeting is on everything and how well they’ll avoid missile defense systems.

mkwt@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 12:07 collapse

None of the current ICBM platforms were designed for missile defense. Missile defense simply did not exist at the time.

Sentinel is busting its budget because it’s renovating and rebuilding all of the ground segments: all of those decrepit silos and computer systems. It’s still money well spent in my opinion.

Missile guidance is not a computationally hard problem, and it hasn’t changed much since the 50s. Terminal missile defense is a fantastically hard problem, and wasn’t mastered until the last decade or two. And the current generation missile defense capabilities still haven’t all been demonstrated in combat.

Having said that, I would generally expect NATO’s missiles to work as advertised in a hot war. And I would plan for Russia’s missiles to be somewhat less effective than they advertise, but still a credible threat.

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:07 next collapse

All valid and fair points.

Regardless, I truly hope we never have to find out either way. The human species is capable of incredible things if we just set aside historical, cultural, and petty differences and worked towards a common goal of lifting everyone up. Wars of aggression are barbaric and unnecessary and I hope one day we all mentally evolve past such tendencies for mass violence. It’s a naive pipe dream, but one can always dream.

Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:17 collapse

It’s difficult to counter a MIRV regardless of how old it is.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 13 Sep 11:37 next collapse

Russia can just retreat hundreds of kilometers further east and carry on.

Into what, a wasteland full of snow and bears? Russia might be massive, but it works like Canada. Everybody is huddled into very specific regions for a reason.

mkwt@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:45 next collapse

I’m just repeating what happened or what the plan was the last couple of go arounds, with Napoleon and Hitler.

Napoleon did occupy Moscow, but it didn’t help him very much.

Hitler was turned back just short of Moscow, but the Russian government had all sorts of continuity plans that involved moving further east. Entire factories were uprooted and shipped into the Urals.

Maalus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:10 next collapse

Soviets would’ve gotten their ass handed to them without lend lease.

PugJesus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 14:54 next collapse

Napoleon did occupy Moscow, but it didn’t help him very much.

Because he was trying to wait for the Tsar’s peace negotiations. Not because taking Moscow wasn’t a major victory. The issue is that Napoleon had no intention of pursuing the war any further, but the Tsar was not willing to give up at the point they were at, because the Tsar realized that Napoleon wanted a quick surrender, not a chase across the Asian steppes.

lostinfog@reddthat.com on 13 Sep 15:48 collapse

Entire factories were uprooted and shipped into the Urals.

Try doing that now

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 12:15 collapse

Occupying Moscow is like occupying DC. The politicians will fly to safety and you are left occupying a city of low level administrative personnel and restaurants. Nothing of military value is manufactured in Moscow just like DC.

Maalus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:09 next collapse

Except there isn’t a California 1000 miles away, there is only Bumfuck Alabama.

lostinfog@reddthat.com on 13 Sep 15:51 collapse

Nothing of military value is manufactured in Moscow just like DC.

Most of their industry is there, because it’s where most of people live.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 17:57 collapse
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 12:00 collapse

Moscow is not the big prize you might think it is

Nobody has ever considered Russia a prize, or at least nobody that wasn’t a complete idiot.

It’s a festering shithole full of Russians, a nuke would improve it dramatically.

Nobody wants to win a war in Russia, but nobody has to.

Knock out Moscow, the rest of Russia hates them and will fracture instantly.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 18:10 collapse

Many beautiful women that never smile.

mathemachristian@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 11:37 next collapse

third times the charm right?

Maalus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:08 collapse

Implying western countries never invaded Moscow or something? Poland held it for a year, russians made it a national holiday when they finally got it back.

Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:15 collapse

Too bad Poland didn’t stay

twistypencil@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:53 next collapse

Then what? Let us not fall into the Iraq trap

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 12:20 collapse

I hate jingoistic bullshit. 3days? How many years were we in Afghanistan?

Ukraine troops are battle hardened and have NATO tanks and weapons. They are holding on but territory changes are tiny. Modern war isn’t WW2 blitzkrieg.

FatCrab@lemmy.one on 13 Sep 12:30 collapse

The actual entry into Afghanistan and overwhelming of local forces was wildly fast? The majority of our time in Afghanistan wasn’t slowly advancing on Kabul. It was failing miserably to build a coherent state sympathetic to US interests amidst a mad dash of privatized MIC interests maximally extracting revenues from the US.

baldingpudenda@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 12:39 next collapse

Yup, doesn’t help that Afghanistan is like 5 territories masquerading as one whole state. The only reason Afghanistan hasn’t split is because of the Taliban holding it together.

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lostinfog@reddthat.com on 13 Sep 15:46 collapse

Was answering a different comment

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:21 collapse

Yes, you take Moscow in 3 days like Kabul, then what? It has no military value.

How many will then die over the decades to road side bombs?

lostinfog@reddthat.com on 13 Sep 15:45 next collapse

Most of their people and industry is there, you can’t just lift all your factories and move them east like it’s 1940

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 13 Sep 16:22 next collapse

Well, you can. They just had more than 3 days.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 17:57 collapse

They never left the Urals

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovilikha_Plants

Edit for the downvoters: I did more googling.

Here’s more

www.rferl.org/a/…/32658857.html

One in the list is near Moscow.

If you want to downvote, show your list of weapon factories in Moscow.

lostinfog@reddthat.com on 15 Sep 09:24 collapse

What kind of troll are you?

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 12:19 collapse

I’m attempting to be realistic in a thread filled with young kids who aren’t well educated on modern war.

Modern war isn’t WW2 armor thrusts where you take the capital and the war is over.

NATO needs to supply Ukraine so they win. Then you can start talking about how NATO could defeat Russia in 3 days. Show that we can win first.

njm1314@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 20:58 collapse

I think you’re underestimating the importance of Moscow in today’s Russia. It’s not like it was in Napoleon’s time or even Stalin’s. Russia has become a much more centralized State and Moscow has become incredibly crucial to the way the country is run. To the point that there’s widespread dissatisfaction with the power of Moscow. Speak to anyone in outlying areas and they speak of Moscow with resentment. There’s a reason there’s so many separatist movements in Russia.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 02:06 collapse

I don’t know anything about Moscow other than what I read. As to speaking about Moscow with resentment, that’s exactly how all of the rural US talks about DC.

Other than a nuclear strike, all politicians would have plenty of time to evacuate. Modern communications makes their physical location irrelevant.

njm1314@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 10:15 next collapse

Bring it you ruskie coward.

Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win on 13 Sep 10:30 next collapse

Really Reuters? This is news?

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 18:11 collapse

Sure, it’s relaying a statement by a country’s political leader. It’s literally a piece of news.

Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win on 13 Sep 18:30 collapse

The joke is this is news like “Putin still breathing today”.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 19:09 collapse

I see, his statement is in response to a specific threat from Ukraine to use British and American-made missiles to strike Russia across the border. There was talk of them receiving permission to do so within the day.

Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win on 13 Sep 20:27 collapse

Yeah, it’s the same response for every event EU/NATO/Ukraine related. The news “EU/NATO/UA did something” = “Putin utters red line threat”

kikutwo@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 11:03 next collapse

Good, fuck you Putin.

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 11:57 next collapse

Is anyone, anywhere in the West afraid of this happening?

It might just be time to shut them the fuck up for good.

Maalus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:04 next collapse

They won’t shut up they’ll give warnings each time something comes along. They switched their nonsense from “red lines” to “open war” because that sells better to fearmongers. In reality, Ukraine has shown in Kursk how much the red lines mean - that is fuckall. Biden just needs to stop being a pussy and say yes.

JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 23:00 next collapse

You corner a rat they will do anything to survive. You want all out war with Russia and to roll the dice on Putin launching the nukes?

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 13 Sep 23:33 next collapse

They are a rat, I’m not afraid of a rat, we are going to stomp this rat’s head into mush.

The rat can hiss and threaten all it wants, it went too far and there is no alternative, we put up with the rat shitting all over us for far too long.

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 14 Sep 00:00 next collapse

BTW, they really so desperate to survive?

GO THE FUCK HOME!!!

Staying in Ukraine is just begging for everyone else to revisit all the genocides they’ve inflicted on others, like Armenia, Ukraine, poles, the list is endless.

I think a lot of those people would love to lay hands-on Russian citizens right now, for old times sake.

It’s so delicious to watch karma unfold in real time to someone who so deserves it.

This is like a man trying to defend murder by saying you were just trying to rape her but she resisted.

cley_faye@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 00:31 collapse

If the alternative to “the nukes” is “gets steamrolled the old fashioned way” anyway, it’s not really an alternative.

cley_faye@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 00:30 collapse

I’m slightly worried about the really big guns russia supposedly have, but only slightly. At this point, it’s not like there’s a big red “launch” button on putin’s desk; it’d have to go through a few people that may have the actual big picture in their mind.

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 14 Sep 02:43 collapse

We bought those people off decades ago, all their yachts, townhouses and other decent shit is as far from Russia as possible.

But if they see they can back us down and let them invade a country by waving nukes, they will be greatly encouraged to do so again, the cost/benefit ratio is far too high, they’re getting something for literally nothing.

This is exactly how world wars start.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 12:25 next collapse

I can understand how the guidance systems being still controlled by NATO satellites/support mechanisms would be considered a different level for them, but is it just more sabre rattling? That’s the question.

Maalus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 13:05 collapse

Yes, this is just more saber rattling.

Tramdan@sh.itjust.works on 13 Sep 15:32 next collapse

So he’s currently struggling against just Ukraine but he’s warning us that he could end up facing the whole of NATO?

N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Sep 15:41 next collapse

Maybe the word “directly” didn’t translate well. If Russia engages NATO directly, their forces will be wiped off the map. Ukraine is using old NATO equipment from the 90s that was pulled out of storage and kicking all kinds of Russian ass. Direct NATO involvement would mean carrier groups, F35s, stealth bombers, and a whole lot of other fun things the Russians have zero answer for.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Sep 00:13 next collapse

But answer me this: is Russia allowed to use long-range missiles?

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 04:51 next collapse

Yes and so is Ukraine.

The issue was whether Ukraine using externally supplied long range missiles counted as escalation. Which is a non-issue since Russia is using externally supplied (from Iran and NK) long range missiles - they already escalated it.

Valmond@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 07:30 collapse

Give to them by their allies?

Yes.

But using them long range?

Also yes.

On civilian targets?

Well actually yes too.

Just give the Ukrainians the needs to erase the existance of russian army inside its borders ffs (so including long range strikes inside all of russia).

Chickenstalker@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 02:32 next collapse

Do eeeitttt. Russia is already invaded by Ukraine with no direct participation of NATO. Let’s see how they do against actual NATO planes, tanks, ships and soldiers.

zik@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 03:55 next collapse

Didn’t he already repeatedly claim that he’s fighting directly with the West?

Even in his own words what would this change?

Clent@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 06:26 collapse

And here is the moment it sails over everyone’s head that this is exactly the same claim for Palestine that many are claiming occurs when the US sells weapons to Israel.

Weird.

PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 06:43 collapse

I always have to preface this by saying I am by no means a Putin apologist, but just follow the money. America loves a war no matter where it is. And why? Because we gotta sell all these bombs and missiles to someone…