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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,494 Founders Club

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    Grow up and learn the difference between the internet and real life kid

    2014 was the Obama CIA. Same folks who are willing to destroy democracy to save it from Trump

    Ukrainians are dying to protect the Biden Obama Clinton and McConnell family fortunes

    Putin didn't do shit under Trump. Another inconvenient fact for you

    Sad
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,252 Founders Club

    Bob_C said:

    Bob_C said:

    Bob_C said:



    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    And Ukraine

    Thanks for playing
    Ukraine has overwhelming bipartisan support

    Afghanistan was DNC idiocy at its finest
    All the experts agree, have we seen this before?
    A lot of the experts did not agree on covid
    Who said anything about covid? But since we are on the topic there was also overwhelming bi-partisian support for printing covid money which is what enabled the local tyranny to be justified.
    Printing money was the least of the problems brought on by covid
    Checkers.

    The money is what allowed everything else to happen. End of discussion.
    Tic tac toe

    Shutting down businesses was the bigger economic issue.

    Shutting down businesses wouldn’t have been possible without paying off the proles with extended unemployment and cash handouts. Business would have never agreed without the PPP. You are a bit slow on this issue.
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Correction.

    115 pages.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    Bob_C said:

    Bob_C said:

    Bob_C said:

    Bob_C said:



    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    And Ukraine

    Thanks for playing
    Ukraine has overwhelming bipartisan support

    Afghanistan was DNC idiocy at its finest
    All the experts agree, have we seen this before?
    A lot of the experts did not agree on covid
    Who said anything about covid? But since we are on the topic there was also overwhelming bi-partisian support for printing covid money which is what enabled the local tyranny to be justified.
    Printing money was the least of the problems brought on by covid
    Checkers.

    The money is what allowed everything else to happen. End of discussion.
    Tic tac toe

    Shutting down businesses was the bigger economic issue.

    Shutting down businesses wouldn’t have been possible without paying off the proles with extended unemployment and cash handouts. Business would have never agreed without the PPP. You are a bit slow on this issue.
    Anybody else noticing a trend?

  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,905 Standard Supporter

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    We agree that Putin wouldn't have invaded with a strong US president. So, what is the end game? In your view, the Ukraine forces Russia out of the Ukraine. With the dementia patient as the weakest US president since Carter what is the end game. Putin concedes and goes back as an embarrassed former Russian strong man? If Putin goes to tactical nukes then we respond and blow up the world and declare a great moral victory? Just like the current Ukrainian moral victory. Billions for Ukrainian oligarchs, ten million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead and massive destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/104410/can-we-offer-this-ukranian-solider-a-scholarship/p114

    HMM: Catastrophic Success: What if the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Achieves More than Expected?

    If the counteroffensive is surprisingly successful, Putin will be forced to respond in one of two ways—negotiation or escalation. Given Putin’s belief in the value of a long-game scenario, his willingness to absorb significant costs, and the potentially disastrous domestic political consequences of unfavorable negotiations, it is more likely than not that Putin would choose escalation. In a situation where Russian forces are routed, Putin would face only two realistic escalation options: throw more human bodies at the Ukrainians or use a nuclear weapon.

    In the case of the former option, Russia already appears to be preparing new rounds of mobilizations, with the Wagner Group restarting troop recruitment from Russian prisons. However, as was recently seen in Bakhmut and elsewhere, new Russian soldiers are poorly trained. Conscripts are thus often killed in droves—and not even the Russians have an infinite supply of human lives. New recruits could slow the tide of a Ukrainian advance, but if momentum is on Ukraine’s side, it may be unlikely these new recruits could decisively weigh in Russia’s favor.

    That leaves nuclear escalation.
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,252 Founders Club

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    We agree that Putin wouldn't have invaded with a strong US president. So, what is the end game? In your view, the Ukraine forces Russia out of the Ukraine. With the dementia patient as the weakest US president since Carter what is the end game. Putin concedes and goes back as an embarrassed former Russian strong man? If Putin goes to tactical nukes then we respond and blow up the world and declare a great moral victory? Just like the current Ukrainian moral victory. Billions for Ukrainian oligarchs, ten million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead and massive destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/104410/can-we-offer-this-ukranian-solider-a-scholarship/p114

    HMM: Catastrophic Success: What if the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Achieves More than Expected?

    If the counteroffensive is surprisingly successful, Putin will be forced to respond in one of two ways—negotiation or escalation. Given Putin’s belief in the value of a long-game scenario, his willingness to absorb significant costs, and the potentially disastrous domestic political consequences of unfavorable negotiations, it is more likely than not that Putin would choose escalation. In a situation where Russian forces are routed, Putin would face only two realistic escalation options: throw more human bodies at the Ukrainians or use a nuclear weapon.

    In the case of the former option, Russia already appears to be preparing new rounds of mobilizations, with the Wagner Group restarting troop recruitment from Russian prisons. However, as was recently seen in Bakhmut and elsewhere, new Russian soldiers are poorly trained. Conscripts are thus often killed in droves—and not even the Russians have an infinite supply of human lives. New recruits could slow the tide of a Ukrainian advance, but if momentum is on Ukraine’s side, it may be unlikely these new recruits could decisively weigh in Russia’s favor.

    That leaves nuclear escalation.
    He hated on page one that he has no endgame. The time constraint is as long as it takes. Great ROI on an indefinite time period though.
  • PostGameOrangeSlices
    PostGameOrangeSlices Member Posts: 27,672
    edited May 2023

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    We agree that Putin wouldn't have invaded with a strong US president. So, what is the end game? In your view, the Ukraine forces Russia out of the Ukraine. With the dementia patient as the weakest US president since Carter what is the end game. Putin concedes and goes back as an embarrassed former Russian strong man? If Putin goes to tactical nukes then we respond and blow up the world and declare a great moral victory? Just like the current Ukrainian moral victory. Billions for Ukrainian oligarchs, ten million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead and massive destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/104410/can-we-offer-this-ukranian-solider-a-scholarship/p114

    HMM: Catastrophic Success: What if the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Achieves More than Expected?

    If the counteroffensive is surprisingly successful, Putin will be forced to respond in one of two ways—negotiation or escalation. Given Putin’s belief in the value of a long-game scenario, his willingness to absorb significant costs, and the potentially disastrous domestic political consequences of unfavorable negotiations, it is more likely than not that Putin would choose escalation. In a situation where Russian forces are routed, Putin would face only two realistic escalation options: throw more human bodies at the Ukrainians or use a nuclear weapon.

    In the case of the former option, Russia already appears to be preparing new rounds of mobilizations, with the Wagner Group restarting troop recruitment from Russian prisons. However, as was recently seen in Bakhmut and elsewhere, new Russian soldiers are poorly trained. Conscripts are thus often killed in droves—and not even the Russians have an infinite supply of human lives. New recruits could slow the tide of a Ukrainian advance, but if momentum is on Ukraine’s side, it may be unlikely these new recruits could decisively weigh in Russia’s favor.

    That leaves nuclear escalation.
    Good poast

    I personally think that if Russia gets further humiliated, Putin is door. Ass. Out.

    Speaking of suicided, he would be done. They could even say it was due to deteriorating health.

    I think the next scenario, which is very unlikely, is that Russia uses a small tactical nuke in a city like Bahkmut or Soledae
    R (small ish but heavily fortified) to test what the international reaction will be...it would not be pretty and it will guarantee Russia as an international outcast. China does not want nuclear weapons to be used. Why would they? It benefits no one and is insanely risky.

    Then, the big nuclear strike scenario. Russia nukes Kyiv, Kherson, Odessa, etc. They finally get that evil Jewish Nazi (el oh el) whos been beating Putin's ass as a leader and tactician. This would draw NATO into the conflict and would be the end of Russia as we know it. It would not be pretty and nukes would fly on both sides.

    Russia does not want that scenario. Plenty of oligarchs and FSBs types that want to rule a Russia who got humbled by Ukraine, not a smoldering corpse, would not let this happen. I dont think anyone would obey the commands to launch nukes. I think this has 0% chance of happening.

    My 2 cents
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,905 Standard Supporter

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    We agree that Putin wouldn't have invaded with a strong US president. So, what is the end game? In your view, the Ukraine forces Russia out of the Ukraine. With the dementia patient as the weakest US president since Carter what is the end game. Putin concedes and goes back as an embarrassed former Russian strong man? If Putin goes to tactical nukes then we respond and blow up the world and declare a great moral victory? Just like the current Ukrainian moral victory. Billions for Ukrainian oligarchs, ten million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead and massive destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/104410/can-we-offer-this-ukranian-solider-a-scholarship/p114

    HMM: Catastrophic Success: What if the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Achieves More than Expected?

    If the counteroffensive is surprisingly successful, Putin will be forced to respond in one of two ways—negotiation or escalation. Given Putin’s belief in the value of a long-game scenario, his willingness to absorb significant costs, and the potentially disastrous domestic political consequences of unfavorable negotiations, it is more likely than not that Putin would choose escalation. In a situation where Russian forces are routed, Putin would face only two realistic escalation options: throw more human bodies at the Ukrainians or use a nuclear weapon.

    In the case of the former option, Russia already appears to be preparing new rounds of mobilizations, with the Wagner Group restarting troop recruitment from Russian prisons. However, as was recently seen in Bakhmut and elsewhere, new Russian soldiers are poorly trained. Conscripts are thus often killed in droves—and not even the Russians have an infinite supply of human lives. New recruits could slow the tide of a Ukrainian advance, but if momentum is on Ukraine’s side, it may be unlikely these new recruits could decisively weigh in Russia’s favor.

    That leaves nuclear escalation.
    Good poast

    I personally think that if Russia gets further humiliated, Putin is door. Ass. Out.

    Speaking of suicided, he would be done. They could even say it was due to deteriorating health.

    I think the next scenario, which is very unlikely, is that Russia uses a small tactical nuke in a city like Bahkmut or Soledae
    R (small ish but heavily fortified) to test what the international reaction will be...it would not be pretty and it will guarantee Russia as an international outcast. China does not want nuclear weapons to be used. Why would they? It benefits no one and is insanely risky.

    Then, the big nuclear strike scenario. Russia nukes Kyiv, Kherson, Odessa, etc. They finally get that evil Jewish Nazi (el oh el) whos been beating Putin's ass as a leader and tactician. This would draw NATO into the conflict and would be the end of Russia as we know it. It would not be pretty and nukes would fly on both sides.

    Russia does not want that scenario. Plenty of oligarchs and FSBs types that want to rule a Russia who got humbled by Ukraine, not a smoldering corpse, would not let this happen. I dont think anyone would obey the commands to launch nukes. I think this has 0% chance of happening.

    My 2 cents
    Real world he starts small with tactical nukes. He is already a world pariah and that doesn't seem to bother him. US threatens to retaliate with tactical nukes. Putin tells the dementia patient and his commie advisors that if Russian troops are killed with US nukes he is going to take out the big US base in Ramstein, Germany. US troops for the tens of thousands of Russian troops killed with US and NATO weapons. Then what? Further escalation for some dead US troops in Germany while the US is still safe? Seems like a negotiated settlement would be the sane thing to have done a year ago.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,583 Standard Supporter
    PGOS supports all the bio labs and the money laundering that goes to the demonrat party. Loves it he does. What's in those biolabs? The Russians know.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,512 Standard Supporter

    pawz said:

    Zelensky dick sucker

    Genocide enabling Putin ass licker

    Name calling is fun
    You started it because you have no argument

    When faced with facts about your hero you dodge and deflect

    Just calling it like I see it

    Cocksucker
    He's not my hero, bitch

    I didnt start it you geriatric fuck

    Ive posted pages of arguments that get ignored by you retards.

    Enjoy coping with the fact that America runs the fucking world and Russia is a backwater hellhole that cant even project power a mile from its border against fucking UKRAINE.

    Isolationism is dead, cunt. America won.

    And no, Russia isnt nuking shit. Bitch
    Your arguments suck harder than you do and have been shredded

    Unlike Russia

    Imagine thinking Biden won anything. Fucking retard
    Everything the US does is not the result of the President.

    Biden fucking sucks. Look no further than Afghanistan withdrawal
    So after that you thought he was up for the job in Ukraine?

    A+ logic.

    Biden isnt in charge of anything in Ukraine

    The US would be doing the same thing with Trump or nearly anyone else as Preaident

    Afghanistan withdrawal, on the other hand, was all his admins doing
    That's completely inaccurate

    Putin didn't do shit when Trump was president

    He was scared. Biden and Obama reek of weakness. And here we are protecting the graft of the families

    It's all bullshit. Follow the money kid
    I agree that he likely wouldnt have invaded with Trump as President

    But if he did, Trump would be supplying them with weapons.

    Since 2014 the US has had advisors on the ground on Ukraine, training them. The US has sold them tons of weapons. Including during 2016 through 2020.

    Why do you think Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight with 200k Russians dead? Its not because they sat around jerking off after Russia took Crimea

    Get with the times grandpa
    We agree that Putin wouldn't have invaded with a strong US president. So, what is the end game? In your view, the Ukraine forces Russia out of the Ukraine. With the dementia patient as the weakest US president since Carter what is the end game. Putin concedes and goes back as an embarrassed former Russian strong man? If Putin goes to tactical nukes then we respond and blow up the world and declare a great moral victory? Just like the current Ukrainian moral victory. Billions for Ukrainian oligarchs, ten million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead and massive destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/104410/can-we-offer-this-ukranian-solider-a-scholarship/p114

    HMM: Catastrophic Success: What if the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Achieves More than Expected?

    If the counteroffensive is surprisingly successful, Putin will be forced to respond in one of two ways—negotiation or escalation. Given Putin’s belief in the value of a long-game scenario, his willingness to absorb significant costs, and the potentially disastrous domestic political consequences of unfavorable negotiations, it is more likely than not that Putin would choose escalation. In a situation where Russian forces are routed, Putin would face only two realistic escalation options: throw more human bodies at the Ukrainians or use a nuclear weapon.

    In the case of the former option, Russia already appears to be preparing new rounds of mobilizations, with the Wagner Group restarting troop recruitment from Russian prisons. However, as was recently seen in Bakhmut and elsewhere, new Russian soldiers are poorly trained. Conscripts are thus often killed in droves—and not even the Russians have an infinite supply of human lives. New recruits could slow the tide of a Ukrainian advance, but if momentum is on Ukraine’s side, it may be unlikely these new recruits could decisively weigh in Russia’s favor.

    That leaves nuclear escalation.
    Good poast

    I personally think that if Russia gets further humiliated, Putin is door. Ass. Out.

    Speaking of suicided, he would be done. They could even say it was due to deteriorating health.

    I think the next scenario, which is very unlikely, is that Russia uses a small tactical nuke in a city like Bahkmut or Soledae
    R (small ish but heavily fortified) to test what the international reaction will be...it would not be pretty and it will guarantee Russia as an international outcast. China does not want nuclear weapons to be used. Why would they? It benefits no one and is insanely risky.

    Then, the big nuclear strike scenario. Russia nukes Kyiv, Kherson, Odessa, etc. They finally get that evil Jewish Nazi (el oh el) whos been beating Putin's ass as a leader and tactician. This would draw NATO into the conflict and would be the end of Russia as we know it. It would not be pretty and nukes would fly on both sides.

    Russia does not want that scenario. Plenty of oligarchs and FSBs types that want to rule a Russia who got humbled by Ukraine, not a smoldering corpse, would not let this happen. I dont think anyone would obey the commands to launch nukes. I think this has 0% chance of happening.

    My 2 cents
    Real world he starts small with tactical nukes. He is already a world pariah and that doesn't seem to bother him. US threatens to retaliate with tactical nukes. Putin tells the dementia patient and his commie advisors that if Russian troops are killed with US nukes he is going to take out the big US base in Ramstein, Germany. US troops for the tens of thousands of Russian troops killed with US and NATO weapons. Then what? Further escalation for some dead US troops in Germany while the US is still safe? Seems like a negotiated settlement would be the sane thing to have done a year ago.
    There's no MIC money or CIA victory dance in peace.

    C'mon, man. Putin bad. Russia bad. Must destroy.

    Get the rhythm. Music is about to start in Pakistan, too.