Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.
What a worthless blockade, the whole point of a blockade is to prevent ships from entering or leaving. I wonder if the Russian Black Sea fleet is even still operational.
As the article says, it appears to have been a bluff and the west called them on it.
The whole invasion has been a bluff! Putin keeps threatening to nuke to West and NATO if we supplied Ukraine with assistance. Over and over and over. Well look how that went.
Putin has never threatened to nuke the west. The only nuclear threats have some from the US.
Fucking lol, Medvedev has been threatening to nuke everyone and their cat every other day since this shitshow began. Cope more vatnik.
This isn’t reddit son. Back your claim up or stfu.
I knew Russian state endorsed journalists had been saying that sort of thing, but I thought they had a layer of plausible deniability by not having their actual ministers say things like that. But it turns out he is right, Medvedev did threaten to use nuclear weapons if Ukraine successfully regains the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-wed-have-use-nuclear-weapon-if-ukrainian-offensive-was-success-2023-07-30/.
That was 2 days ago. Is that all you’ve got? I was just told that they’ve been constantly doing it.
Every single one of these is outlined as a response to military aggression. Every one.
The best answer to Russia’s blockade would be a NATO escort. Unfortunately Turkey would need to be on board and Erdogan is trying to play the role of mediator in the conflict.
I actually don’t blame him for trying to play mediator, I think that’s a good thing here, because I want putin to think there’s always room to talk even while his army is being incinerated around him.
But we should send speedboats with the US flag carrying kfc in and out of Odessa with each convoy.
Ukraine is beating Russia, best case scenario for everyone is this keeps happening slowly enough that putin doesn’t do anything stupid while his empire collapses around him.
You’re in a bubble of complete misinformation. You cannot seriously believe Ukraine is beating Russia.
Well they’ve taken more land back in the last couple months than Russia took in the last year, so there’s that.
Russia were kicked out of Kyiv
Russia were kicked out of Kharkiv
Russia were kicked out of Kherson
The reclamation of Russian held Ukrainian land in the east and the south appears to be accelerating.
Russia is resorting to fielding T-54s and T-55s (how embarrassing 😬 )
Putins support at home appears to be slipping
Ukraine has the full support of the west
Russia barely has the tentative support of China
You’re being lied to. You need to drop wherever you’re getting your information, it’s all completely false. These are fantasies.
So Russia still occupies the Kharkiv, Kherson and Kyiv regions do they?
Russia never occupied Kiev, it pulled back after the peace agreement that Zelensky reneged on. Ukraine has lost its last army. It’s over, they have no chance. Good riddance to the Nazi scum.
EDIT: A lot of triggered Nazis in here today.
They pulled back because the VDV were wiped out in the battle of hostomel airport and because they couldn’t fuel their tanks where Ukrainians kept blowing up their logistics.
“Good will gesture” was an attempt by the Kremlin to save face while they shuffled back to Belarus with their tail between their legs.
Do you want nuclear war? Because nato and Russia engaging in direct combat is a path to that. I know some US citizens believe that the US has a nuclear missile intercept program so they won’t be affected, but no such system exists and is effective. If one warship fires on another it could lead to a chain of events that kills us all
Ww2 started because everyone bent over for the Germans and Japanese, which encouraged them.
In this case, si vis pacem, para bellum.
Either putin is sane and pulls back, or he’s insane and war was inevitable.
Or the US is sane and pulls back to their own side of the planet.
We’re not over there, and the only help we’re giving is because we’re asked.
People hate russia, they want our help killing russians. Help we are happy to provide.
Nobody hates Russia, except new watching normies. The US is trying to weaken Russia to rob and pillage it again.
No, we’re working with China to weaken Russia so we can divide it between us.
That was the deal.
China had s choice between a weak and stupid russia as an erratic ally, or a broken russia as a resource depot. They hesitated, but the war in Ukraine sold it.
The irony is putin started the war partly to look strong in front of Xi so he wasn’t the junior partner in an alliance. The delicious, delicious irony.
It’s pronounced knee-how btw, might want to practice.
Did the Sasquatch man tell you this or was it the gray aliens?
Ww2 started because everyone bent over for the Germans and Japanese, which encouraged them
This is extremely simplified and comes off as silly. German appeasement was partially because France and Britain wanted Germany to attack the USSR, partially because they needed time to rearm. The US empire had a policy of provocation and containment of the Japanese empire.
In the era of nuclear powers wars are done with non nuclear proxies to avoid a nuclear exchange.
WW2 was pre-nuclear weapons. It turns out that changing material conditions makes old responses inappropriate.
It’s like a crowd of teenage gamers in here who’ve had too much sugar.
Theyre literally down voting “direct engagements between US and Russian military assets could lead to nuclear war”
