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'I say Vladimir, if you do it we're hitting Moscow': Trump claims he told Putin and Xi he'd NUKE them and slams Biden for being 'afraid' of Russian leader in conversation with golf legend John Daly - before hitting his Palm Beach course
Nuclear weapons are a deterrent and nothing more. Once the birds are aloft and heading to enemy territory, the enemy releases their missiles. Nuclear war by design can never occur. Assured mutual destruction defeats any war waged between enemies.
Nuclear weapon useage is not a victory, it is a defeat. No different than war is a defeat of diplomacy. There are no winners in a nuclear exchange. The bombs on Japan to end the assault on the USA during WWII, were never returned in retaliation. The entire nuclear war paradigm is a defeat of the reason for the war in the first place. It ends any mearsured approach to peace before or after the exchange of nuclear weapons.
Vienna - Below are five facts (click here) about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the biggest in Europe by capacity, which Russian troops have seized, according to the regional state administration.
Ukraine said Russian forces attacked the plant in the early hours of Friday, setting an adjacent five-story training facility on fire. The fire was later extinguished.
- Unit 1 is "in outage"
- Units 2 and 3 "have been disconnected from the grid, and the cool down of the nuclear installation is being carried out"
- Unit 4 "is in operation at 690 MW power"
- Units 5 and 6 "are being cooled down".
* The power plant is of strategic importance to Russia because it is only about 200 km from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014....
The reactors are being shut down, but, that does not eliminate the nuclear material on site. Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place. How does a NEUTRAL convoy enter the plant to remove the nuclear material to a safe place?
Russia is proving to be a problem in almost every aspect of warfare. The nuclear component will not be handled correctly by Russia. They have a long history of enormous mistakes, accidents and deaths.
A Ukrainian soldier (click here) has been hailed as a hero for blowing himself up to destroy a bridge in an effort to stop Russian tanks from invading his country.
Marine battalion engineer Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych was deployed to the Henichesk bridge in the southern province of Kherson when the Russian tanks advanced, the Ukrainian military said on its Facebook page.
“On this difficult day for our country, when the Ukrainian people give way to the Russian occupiers in all directions, one of the hardest places on the map of Ukraine was the Crimean intersection, where one of the first enemies met a separate marine battalion,” according to the post....
All those bridges should be gone already. When Russia occupied Crimea, no matter how pretty that bridge was all I saw was a strategy decision by Putin. It was a disguise. The bridge between Russia and Ukraine was all decked out as if a celebration between Occupied Crimea and Russia. According to some reporting from Putin's cabinet, they didn't even know his plans. That leads me to believe the military leaders didn't know either. They were carrying out military exercises when they were ordered to invade Ukraine.
Imagine what would be happening in Europe right now if the fishermen didn't turn back Russia's military games?
That young soldier that died while texting his mother, had no clue he was entering a war. This is Putin and only Putin. The country didn't know, the Russian cabinet didn't know and the military didn't know until they were ordered to start their advance. That is why this assault is such a disaster. There was no pre-planning only military exercises.
The bombs being sent into Ukraine from Russia reminded me of Hamas and their rockets that they rain down on Israel from time to time. They have no plan where the rockets will land, but, only a plan to launch them in the direction of Israel. That is exactly what is occurring between Russia and Ukraine. Russia is sending in missiles without any understanding of where they were to land.
I am surprised the bridges between Russia and Ukraine are still standing, railroad or otherwise. It is what allows Putin to bring heavy artiliary into Ukraine.
I half believe the Russian military leadership fought with Putin about the invasion.
The invasion is nothing short of disasterous and ill conceived.
My assessment is not wrong. It is lead by incompetents and Putin, himself, is calling all the shots. This has been a completely incompetent invasion into Ukraine. Putin carried out military games so the generals or commanders or whatever they are called in Russia would put the military in a perfect place and then Putin took over and carried out the orders to invade. Are the Russian military leaders still alive. It is looking more and more amateurish and more and more like there were strong objecgtions to even begin to advance into Ukraine.
I think Putin stands alone on this invasion. That is why the uptick in weapons being used. If he is solely with his finger on the button, there will be nuclear weapons flying. The West needs to come up with some intelligence on this mess and do something soon. Putin will continue to escalate the types of killing machines sent as he fails.
Putin needs to be asked to account for the leaders of this invasion. Who is responsible for all the civilian deaths and a rocket barrage into a nuclear power plant? The leaders that opposed him are in prison at the very least.
THIS LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE PUTIN POLITICS, right down to controlling the media reports. Someone wants to cover up this insane invasion with acceptable political outcomes.
Look this has to be stopped. Ukraine is going to be as toxic as Russia soon. The West needs to decide what to do about the Russians. They are destroying land and poisoning the air between both of their nuclear reactor disasters, which are both in Russian custody now.
This started as a circumstance of Russia and Ukraine, it is growing out of control. The rest of the world can't simply stand by and let this environmental disaster to continue to happen.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident was an accident, this is a bombing. It is different. Not only that but the Fukushima accident was flooded with tsunami waters while the facility was intact. The waters cooled the facility for as long as it was flooded, but, this is not a flood and the entire area is indanger. There is no way of knowing at this time if there is a profound disaster as in Chernobyl.
THIS IS A GLOBAL EMERGENCY. RUSSIA IS INCOMPETENT. NO GENERAL OR PRESIDENT WHO WERE ACTUALLY QUALIFIED AND COMPETENT WOULD EVER ALLOW BOMBINGS OF A NUCLEAR FACILITY.
RUSSIA IS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
March 3, 2022 By Jorge L. Ortiz, John Bacon, Tom Vanden Brook, Josh Meyer, Celina. Tebor and Jeanine Santucci
Europe's largest nuclear plant (click here) was on fire early Friday after enduring heavy shelling from Russian forces in the southern Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, raising international concerns about a nuclear accident.
Plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant and had set fire to one of the facility’s six reactors. That reactor is under renovation and not operating, but there is nuclear fuel inside, he said.
Tuz said it's urgent to stop the fighting so the flames can be extinguished.
“We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire,” Tuz said in a video posted on Telegram. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe.”...
One bill, which essentially amends the criminal code, would punish anyone who publishes what is deemed to be false information about Russia’s military operation in Ukraine with a 5-million-ruble fine, around $44,740, and up to 15 years in prison. Other amendments would impose tough sanctions against any foreign citizens considered to have violated the rights of Russians or committed crimes against them. The current law applies only to U.S. citizens....
Any unexplained death of a foreign national is suspicious, especially when Russia can be involved at all.
3 March 2022
By Kevin Rawlenson
Mikhail Watford was born Mikhail Tolstosheya in Ukraine in 1955, in the country’s Soviet era.
Officers are treating the death of 66-year-old Mikhail Watford, who made his fortune in oil and gas after the demise of the Soviet Union, as unexplained. But they said it was not thought to be suspicious.
The news comes as attention focuses on oligarchs in the UK who are thought to be members of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
