Just now, Cameroni said:

 

Putin has been a very reliable partner for the West, until the West betrayed his confidence. He has always acted reasonably.

Hilarious!

Just now, Jingthing said:

I didn't say China would nuke Russia.

What I meant is that China would end it's relationship with Russia as an ally.

It would be suicide for Russia even if it didn't be the trigger towards nuclear winter.

 

It's possible. But you omit to see the actual picture, Russia would only use nukes if it were losing on the conventional battlefield, ie in its estimation its own survival is at stake. 

 

Hence China's trade policy would not be a major consideration at that point.

 

Russia may consider it suicide to give up Ukraine to the West.

Just now, Cameroni said:

 

It's possible. But you omit to see the actual picture, Russia would only use nukes if it were losing on the conventional battlefield, ie in its estimation its own survival is at stake. 

 

Hence China's trade policy would not be a major consideration at that point.

 

Russia may consider it suicide to give up Ukraine to the West.

It's impossible to predict the eventual end game.

It might be 20 years from now.

Eventually Putin will be out of the picture, and that could change a lot.

3 hours ago, Mavideol said:

Russia will lose the Ukraine war as Trump completely changed his rhetoric about his opinion of Putin, it took some time, but better late then never, for Trump to realize that Putin has been playing him big time, Trump has made very strong statements about Putin/Russia, so far no comments from Moscow, let's wait and see, maybe another nuclear treat from Putin 

For once have to agree with Trump, Russia is nothing more than a paper tiger and will be losing the Ukraine war. They will walk back to Moscow one hand in front and one in the back, empty hands

 

Trump noted in his lengthy statement that Russia looks like 'a paper tiger'

 

Trump declares Ukraine can retake all territory from Putin in dramatic reversal from Alaska summit

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/trump-declares-ukraine-can-retake-all-territory-from-putin-in-dramatic-reversal-from-alaska-summit/ar-AA1N9WSa?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=68d35392d20b41ffae031903aeb976bb&ei=22

Whilst Trump may believe that Russia is a paper tiger, it has over 5.xxx nuclear weapons, the largest stockpile in the world. The country is lead by a homicidal maniac. Now I personally would not want to push my luck against such a person who can easily destroy the entire world many times over.

 

AI Overview
Russia has the world's largest total stockpile of nuclear weapons, estimated to be around 5,580 warheads according to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) as of March 2024, though sources like Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show slightly different figures around 5,459 as of January 2025. Of these, approximately 4,380 are considered operational or active, and about 1,200 are retired and awaiting dismantling. 
Key details about Russia's arsenal:
Total Stockpile: Approximately 5,580 warheads, with some reports estimating slightly fewer around 5,459 in early 2025. 
Operational/Active Warheads: Around 4,380. 
Retired Warheads: About 1,200 are retired but largely intact and slated for dismantlement. 
Deployed Warheads: Roughly 1,718 strategic warheads are deployed on land-based missiles, submarines, and heavy bombers. 
Nuclear Triad: Russia's forces are organized based on the nuclear triad, meaning their weapons can be launched from land, air, and sea. 
 

17 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

What's sad is that there's quite a few countries with dictators

(in case not obvious I quote just the above for brevity)

 

Yeah Kier Starmer and most of the other EU dictators will hopefully

be over thrown by their own  people  (CIA MI6) too 😋

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Putin is often criticized for being too timid   if he 'goes'  there is a good chance someone with a harder view will replace him.

If/ when Putin "goes" the fighting within Russia to replace him will bleed the place dry.

6 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Deployed Warheads: Roughly 1,718 strategic warheads are deployed on land-based missiles, submarines, and heavy bombers. 

bahh who cares  the world as we know it is overrated anyway

lets just have a "great reset"    get back to basics and nature  living in a cave...sounds wonderful ehh ??

4 minutes ago, JAG said:

If Putin "goes" the fighting within Russia to replace him will bleed the place dry.

Possibly or a 'strong(er)man' takes over and  goes for all out war...or a Ukraine sympathiser takes over and capitulates to all demands ??

hard to know which.

Putin says the war that he started (not Biden and not Zelinskyy) is an existential one for Russia.

That's a lie.

It's an existential one for the Putin regime.

He says a world without Russia isn't worth having.

He thinks he's Russia.

He is not Russia.

12 minutes ago, johng said:

Possibly or a 'strong(er)man' takes over and  goes for all out war...or a Ukraine sympathiser takes over and capitulates to all demands ??

hard to know which.

I suspect the process of "taking over" will do such damage that Russia will cease to be a threat to anyone.

 

Syria, Iraq and Libya used to pose a threat to countries in their respective regions. No longer. I suspect it will be the same, albeit on a different scale.

 

Unless you have an effective, prepared successor in place, and with his hands firmly on the levers of power then such regimes inevitably fall. The trouble is such a successor is seen as a threat to the incumbent. The exception perhaps is North Korea, but massive effort, perhaps the predominant effort, has always been towards building and maintaining the "Kim" dynasty.

3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

That's truly the most idiotic answer I have ever received on here. 

 

Do you seriously think Russia's nuclear arsenal has not been verified by countless scientists in a position to do so? If you  are really this deluded, I suggest you read this article to educate yourself on the amount of nuclear power your "paper tiger" has at its disposal.

 

And yes, I've been to Russia.

 

As of early 2025, we estimate that Russia has a stockpile of approximately 4,309 nuclear warheads assigned for use by long-range strategic launchers and shorter-range tactical nuclear forces.

 

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-05/russian-nuclear-weapons-2025/

I don’t doubt they have a nuclear arsenal, but who actually trusts their ability to fire them without some mishap that ends up with some of them landing on Russia? Their incompetence knows no bounds. 

Anyway, what’s the point of posting anything when we are heading for the “rapture”? 
 

I do wish the West would increase economic sanctions so that Russia has zero income. That is the only thing that will stop the war - no money.

Yes, it would cause some suffering to the ordinary people trying to get on with life. But when everyone is unhappy with Putin, his followers will consider taking him out of the game.

3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

World's first paper Tiger with 3000 nuclear weapons.

 

Lol.

With their air defences being taken out almost daily now by Ukraine, do you think they would dare launch any?

4 minutes ago, JAG said:

Syria, Iraq and Libya used to pose a threat to countries in their respective regions. No longer. I suspect it will be the same, albeit on a different scale.

None of them actually had any of the 'weapons of mass destruction'

that Russia has..

And as a side note  only Iran to go and then the US will have completed all the tasks set so far  for it. 😋

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Putin is often criticized for being too timid   if he 'goes'  there is a good chance someone with a harder view will replace him.

Putin fools everyone by having a calm exterior but inside he's a conniving and calculation criminal and sooner he goes the better.

3 minutes ago, Purdey said:

I do wish the West would increase economic sanctions so that Russia has zero income. That is the only thing that will stop the war - no money.

 

I do wish that people would understand that the sanctions have not worked  and will not work  as there more than  enough countries that are  willing to do trade with Russia  no matter what 'uncle SAM' and his minions say  or do ..hell even the EU is still buying Russian oil and gas..they know that if they stop (right now) they are committing suicide...hence no answer to Trumps  offer to up sanctions as long as the EU stops trading with Russia...krickets....chirp chirp chirp.

Just now, ezzra said:

Putin fools everyone by having a calm exterior but inside he's a conniving and calculation criminal and sooner he goes the better.

Lots of people aren't fooled by him.

KGB man all the way.

1 minute ago, johng said:

 

I do wish that people would understand that the sanctions have not worked  and will not work  as there more than  enough countries that are  willing to do trade with Russia  no matter what 'uncle SAM' and his minions say  or do ..hell even the EU is still buying Russian oil and gas..they know that if they stop (right now) they are committing suicide...hence no answer to Trumps  offer to up sanctions as long as the EU stops trading with Russia...krickets....chirp chirp chirp.

You're lying.

That was just a trick by Trump to shift the blame for his failure to end the war to Europe.

Were you really fooled by that?

There are only two countries in the EU that buy a lot of Russian energy now.

Hungary and Slovokia.

Hungary is a Putin lover and won't stop. The EU can't make him stop and Trump knows that. Trump even attacked Ukraine for hitting a pipeline to there so you know as usual he's full of crapola.

There may be hope that Slovokia will cooperate.

2 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Putin fools everyone by having a calm exterior but inside he's a conniving and calculation criminal

 

Well yes   you don't get to where he is by being a choir boy.

My point is at least he is calm and rational  if he is overthrown/replaced/assassinated   then who knows what the next leader  will be like.

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

There are only two countries in the EU that buy a lot of Russian energy now.

Hungary and Slovokia.

 

And then there is reality...

 

Trump is a cunning bastard but he never says anything randomly. He must have got some new intelligence, either from his own sources, or from Zelensky. Something new up the Ukrainians' sleeves?

 

On a similar note, North Korea's Kim has had a change of heart regarding the Russians and the US. He complained he had not been rewarded enough by the Russians. This surely couldn't mean the Russians wouldn't reward him if they could. It's more likely the Russians had little left to offer him. At the same time Kim signalled he was ready to talk to the US again. Something happened. Maybe North Korean soldiers accompanying the body bags of their comrades in arms told Kim about the sorry state of the Russian army?

 

Some encouraging signs here.

China will not allow Russia to lose. A Russian defeat would be an existential blow to the Axis of Evil and spell the end of Putin and the siloviki the security apparatus that, even if Putin falls, will ensure his successor thinks much the same way.

Trump has effectively checked out. He is perfectly content to sell Europe overpriced weapons if they want them badly enough.

Europe is in a downward spiral. Keeping an increasingly restless populace content does not translate into boots on the ground, and the more Europe ties itself to Ukraine, the more it hastens its own decline.

In an attritional war, Russia endures. Taking points 1–3 together, Russia “wins” in the long run. Of course, in truth, no one wins it remains a vast tragedy for all concerned.

 

https://archive.ph/8CaAc

 

At the same time other senior European Nato leaders (for instance France’s Emmanuel Macron) have been heading in the opposite direction, squashing calls to confiscate Russian state assets and supporting Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again efforts to talk peace with Putin.

The result is that Europe’s signals are not so much mixed as positively Babel-like. Which is perhaps exactly the point that Putin is trying to make. What if, rather than preparing to attack Europe, Putin was actually indulging in some heavy-metal trolling by sending unarmed decoy drones into Poland, or a trio of jets to take a 10 kilometre deep sort cut through Estonia’s airspace? What if his point was to ruffle feathers rather than prepare for a future invasion?

If so, Europe’s reaction has ended up being the worst of all possible worlds. Rather than mocking and disregarding Putin’s sabre rattling as a pathetic attempt to pose as a superpower, some Europeans have rung five-bell fire alarms and called for any warplanes that transgress in the future to be shot down.

 

43 minutes ago, johng said:

(in case not obvious I quote just the above for brevity)

 

Yeah Kier Starmer and most of the other EU dictators will hopefully

be over thrown by their own  people  (CIA MI6) too 😋

Njet, comrade.

Israel enters the chat - Bibi to Trump - Donald can we have first dibs on any spare Patriots,THAADS, etc and you will pay for them.  

 

Donald "Yes sir" 

4 hours ago, Cameroni said:

World's first paper Tiger with 3000 nuclear weapons.

 

Lol.

You're slightly off , Cam :

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+many+nukes+does+russia+have&ia=web

more than 5000.

Of course some may not work anymore.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

You're lying.

That was just a trick by Trump to shift the blame for his failure to end the war to Europe.

Were you really fooled by that?

 

No you are.

And yes Trump called the bluff of the hypocrites in the EU to cleverly put the ball back in their court..this is not and never was Trumps war,

ok he said he would end it  and hasn't  another broken promise from a politician  were you really fooled by that ?

 

The pipeline that Russia blew up itself remember ?

yeah you believed that too  at the time  now of course the Ukrainians did it and Germany has no cheap gas..so shouldn't we call article 5

and punish the Ukrainians  for attacking NATO infrastructure ??

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Putin is often criticized for being too timid   if he 'goes'  there is a good chance someone with a harder view will replace him.

 Putin is the worst of the worst. There is nothing timid about him. He is a bloody murderer. This entire system was built by him and revolves around him. People in Russia are clearly exhausted - by the war, by its devastating impact on the Russian economy, and by Putin’s machinery of internal oppression. I have no doubt that this regime will collapse the moment Putin is gone. For example, Stalin was seen by many Russian patriots as a far more “successful” leader. Yet even after his death in 1953, the country began to change rather quickly. Modern Russians are much more open-minded than Soviet citizens of that era (especially the younger generation), which means that this time, the change will come almost immediately.

5 minutes ago, Hellfire said:

Harsher views? Putin is the worst of the worst. This entire system was built by him and revolves around him. People in Russia are clearly exhausted - by the war, by its devastating impact on the Russian economy, and by Putin’s machinery of internal oppression. I have no doubt that this regime will collapse the moment Putin is gone.

You need to read up on the siloviki the five million strong security apparatus whose future depends entirely on regime survival. The smart money  Mark Galeotti among others suggests that any successor could be even worse. For them it’s simple: they hang together, or they hang separately.

 

https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1024619/putins-potential-successors

daily news from many different sources keep reporting the same thing about Russia being at the losing end, but here we always find some deniers, because they have nothing else to provide to the contrary their last resort is to criticize (without any proof to support their comments) some of them should get a life because they must be bothered to death, let's given them some more ammunition to add to their negativity

Ukraine destroys rare Russian ‘terminator on tracks’ weapon

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ukraine-destroys-rare-russian-terminator-on-tracks-weapon/ss-AA1NbDUb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=68d3ca39726f45e5be921013a94e01f7&ei=16#image=3