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 on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if the Kremlin isn’t happy with the current state of the war with Ukraine, that probably wouldn’t produce a situation more to their liking.
“You better watch out!!! We’re getting our military crushed, and if you join in we’ll get our military even more crushed by you!”
You’d* better watch out
Like they’ve been threatening for the last two years? They’re out of escalation options that are useful for them.
are you winning vlad? are you?
coz doesnt look like that if you need to threat the world with nuclear weapons.
He didn’t threaten to use nukes. He threatened to run drills where his soldiers pretend to use nukes. Probably so that he can actually follow through on an ignored threat.
But that still doesn’t change the fact that any actual nuke use would result in an escalation regretted by both sides, even if it doesn’t result in an alpha strike.
What’s Russia gonna do? Lose on two fronts instead of just the one?
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.
said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons
That explains why they had everyone dig into the radioactive soil around Chernobyl and get radiation poisoning. Gotta simulate that nuclear fallout environment “for practice”
We call this behavior “Säbelrasseln” in german.
The term exists in English, too, with the exact same meaning - “saber rattling”.
It seems the Brits are doing something right, keep it going. Would love to see our chancellor doing the same instead of repeating the russian propaganda…
Probably just rishi trying to secure some right wing votes for the election later in the year.
It genuinely baffles me how the conservative parties of more than a few western countries went from the hawkish party during the Cold War to Russian apologists today. The mental gymnastics are truly astounding.
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities
This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.
Just so we’re clear who’s escalating things.
It’s not equivalent. Russia is at war with Ukraine. The USA and the UK are, in theory, not a part of this war - at least not directly.
It’s the equivalent of Ukraine threatening the countries arming Russia, if those countries decided to get more directly involved in the war.
The USA gets up to a fuck ton of assbaggery around the world, but our involvement with what’s going on in the Ukraine isn’t among them.
The US is fighting dirty in every country but Ukraine?
Can’t fight dirty in them if you are not there.
Is this a rerun? Sounds really familiar
Lmao fucking try it, Putin. Make our day.
Holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you basically begging for a war between two major powers? We all hate Putin, but fuck that would not be good for anyone.
Because it’s a fucking bluff dude.
If Russia attacks the UK can Ukraine attack China and Iran?
Probably a bad idea but that’s what they’re saying isn’t it?
Edit: and given russias use of China and Iran weaponry, if it happens to be from them, the UK can attack them too now!
Edit: and given russias use of China and Iran weaponry
The US and Russia have historically been the world’s two largest arms dealers. You can begrudge China and Iran for getting a slice of the action, but I have to imagine pulling them directly into the conflict would not improve matters for any Ukrainian.
It wouldn’t, but Russia is basically saying that’s a perfectly valid reason to do it.
There’s one big difference.
China’s doing the proper capitalist thing and selling weapons onto the market.
The UK is doing the unforgivable socialist thing and just giving them away.
Ah gotcha. Definitely times to pull out the nukes for that unforgivable act then.
Or just bust up the payroll system for UK ground troops, as happened a few days ago
