War Invasion of Ukraine News Megathread - Thread is only for articles and discussion of articles, general discussion thread is still in Happenings.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that the United States will impose sanctions “far beyond” the ones that the United States imposed in 2014 following the annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

“This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Biden said in a White House speech, signaling a shift in his administration’s position. “We will continue to escalate sanctions if Russia escalates,” he added.

Russian elites and their family members will also soon face sanctions, Biden said, adding that “Russia will pay an even steeper price” if Moscow decides to push forward into Ukraine. Two Russian banks and Russian sovereign debt will also be sanctioned, he said.

Also in his speech, Biden said he would send more U.S. troops to the Baltic states as a defensive measure to strengthen NATO’s position in the area.

Russia shares a border with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

A day earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops to go into the separatist Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine after a lengthy speech in which he recognized the two regions’ independence.

Western powers decried the move and began to slap sanctions on certain Russian individuals, while Germany announced it would halt plans to go ahead with the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

At home, Biden is facing bipartisan pressure to take more extensive actions against Russia following Putin’s decision. However, a recent poll showed that a majority of Americans believe that sending troops to Ukraine is a “bad idea,” and a slim minority believes it’s a good one.

All 27 European Union countries unanimously agreed on an initial list of sanctions targeting Russian authorities, said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, and EU foreign affairs head Josep Borell claimed the package “will hurt Russia … a lot.”

Earlier Tuesday, Borell asserted that Russian troops have already entered the Donbas region, which comprises Donetsk and Lugansk, which are under the control of pro-Russia groups since 2014.

And on Tuesday, the Russian Parliament approved a Putin-back plan to use military force outside of Russia’s borders as Putin further said that Russia confirmed it would recognize the expanded borders of Lugansk and Donetsk.

“We recognized the states,” the Russian president said. “That means we recognized all of their fundamental documents, including the constitution, where it is written that their [borders] are the territories at the time the two regions were part of Ukraine.”

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Putin said that Ukraine is “not interested in peaceful solutions” and that “every day, they are amassing troops in the Donbas.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday morning again downplayed the prospect of a Russian invasion and proclaimed: “There will be no war.”

“There will not be an all-out war against Ukraine, and there will not be a broad escalation from Russia. If there is, then we will put Ukraine on a war footing,” he said in a televised address.

The White House began to signal that they would shift their own position on whether it’s the start of an invasion.

“We think this is, yes, the beginning of an invasion, Russia’s latest invasion into Ukraine,” said Jon Finer, the White House deputy national security adviser in public remarks. “An invasion is an invasion and that is what is underway.”

For weeks, Western governments have been claiming Moscow would invade its neighbor after Russia gathered some 150,000 troops along the countries’ borders. They alleged that the Kremlin would attempt to come up with a pretext to attack, while some officials on Monday said Putin’s speech recognizing the two regions was just that.

But Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Tuesday that Russia’s “latest invasion” of Ukraine is threatening stability in the region, but he asserted that Putin can “still avoid a full blown, tragic war of choice.”

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[VatnikMeltdown]

Its being censored very heavily outside of a couple containment zones. I heard r/combatfootage is deleting a lot of stuff.

Would love to know what happened to the Chechens. Ukros said they killed their general but unfortunately it was fake. You should already support Ukraine out of this one single reason: they take care of the human scum in Kadyrov mercenary army.

 

[Product Placement]

Well that's just fucking great. I'm seeing these videos of mayhem erupting at train stations in Ukraine and people fighting to get on the trains going to Poland. Look closely in the crowds. I didn't realize Ukraine had such rich African population.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60540340

They are mostly students, also from what I've heard having a hard time with Poland letting them across the boarder

"You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route

When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down from his high-rise apartment in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning, the street below was clogged with traffic. People hurried along the sidewalks, wheeling suitcases behind them.

www.reuters.com

"Cities under siege across Ukraine are home to tens of thousands of African students studying medicine, engineering and military affairs. Morocco, Nigeria and Egypt are among the top 10 countries with foreign students in Ukraine, together supplying over 16,000 students, according to the education ministry. Thousands of Indian students are also trying to flee."

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Germany will be throwing some monopoly money on its armed forces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ny-to-create-special-eu100b-armed-forces-fund

/r/europe is producing a puddle, hell maybe a lake, of jizz over this. Also comments about how Germany won't go for any (or much) of that icky infantry stuff, just kewl pew-pew drones, etc. 360 no scope those pesky Russkies. That'll show 'em.

Odd how Germany doing what every US president since probably Bush 41 has been begging them to do while also treating it like it is some watershed moment of the "end of the post-war world." Well, we'll see. For my own amusement I should use whatever Reddit account I have that hasn't been banned yet to make a post of this tenor and watch the downvotes roll in.

Does seem like Putin has underestimated the willingness of countries like Finland to bend over and take the NATO shaft up the pooper. Whether that is Ukrainian resistance (perceived or actual, still hard to say) or behind the scenes maneuvering or actual support among the populace of those places, dunno. I guess time will tell.

They are mostly students,

If they're like US foreign students of my experience something like 90% of them are looking stay despite being here on student visas. 'Course that's mostly Pakis and Indos with a few Koreans. Can't say I've dealt with any Africans.

 

[Vingle]

Uploader is scum as usual and don't even mention who this is.
And it's from Ukraine.

 

[Koko Jambo]

/r/europe is producing a puddle, hell maybe a lake, of jizz over this. Also comments about how Germany won't go for any (or much) of that icky infantry stuff, just kewl pew-pew drones, etc. 360 no scope those pesky Russkies. That'll show 'em.

They have the largest heavy arms industry in Europe and all this fancy stuff that goes to Saudi Arabia now will end up in their Army too. Can imagine that they will also order drones from the Mutts.

 

[Michael Wade]

While I think this is an interesting theory, I don't personally buy it. I feel like at the very least something like this would have been leaked ages ago.

I think what's more accurate is that we're in a Mussolini like situation where Putin is surrounded by yes men who kiss his ass and tell him what he wants to hear 24/7. This has undoubtedly thrust him further into his delusions and is causing him to make batshit stupid decisions on the international stage. Let's just hope Ukraine can bloody Russia's nose similar to what Greece did to Italy in WW2

The thing is, this isnt the first time Ive heard Putin having some kind of illness or disease. I remember some alleged girlfriend of his mentioning this, but it was a year or so back. Dismissed it as propaganda at the time, but now im not so sure.


Also im seeing a lot of suspicion at the lack of actual combat footage between Russian and Ukrainian troops.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

Also im seeing a lot of suspicion at the lack of actual combat footage between Russian and Ukrainian troops.

There's few bits in the other thread.

 

[ZMOT]

They have the largest heavy arms industry in Europe and all this fancy stuff that goes to Saudi Arabia now will end up in their Army too. Can imagine that they will also order drones from the Mutts.

which germany would have to pay for. on top of having to completely modernize the bundeswehr, which has been neglected for decades. and on top of that no one wants to do that shit - which should be surprise no one if you tell everyone growing up over and over patriotism, duty for your country and generally being "warlike" is nazi2themax.

it's empty talk and the only people falling for that aren't aware in what a sorry state the german army is (which includes most germans). germany simply doesn't have the money and personnel, not to mention the same people who were constantly jammering about MUH INHERITED GUILT and shit are now running the government. even if they start RIGHT NOW (which they won't), it will take years to be on a level LE EVIL PUTIN isn't dying of laughter when he looks across the front.

it's posturing, nothing more, once the whole ukraine thing will be over in a few days all of that will be conveniently forgotten...

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Putin puts Russia’s nuclear forces on alert, cites sanctions​

In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers.

The order means Putin wants Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch and raises the threat that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response to it could boil over into nuclear warfare.

Amid the worrying development, the office of Ukraine’s president said a delegation would meet with Russian officials as Moscow’s troops drew closer to Kyiv.

Putin, in giving the nuclear alert directive, cited not only the alleged statements by NATO members but the hard-hitting financial sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, including the Russian leader himself.

Speaking at a meeting with his top officials, Putin told his defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty.”

“Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country,” Putin said in televised comments.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Putin was resorting to a pattern he used in the weeks before launching the invasion of Ukraine, “which is to manufacture threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression. The global community and American people should look at it through that prism. We’ve seen him do this time and time again.”

She told ABC’s “This Week” that Russia has not been under threat from NATO or Ukraine.

“This is all a pattern from President Putin and we’re going to stand up ... ,we have the ability to defend ourselves but we also need to call out what we’re seeing here,” Psaki said.

Putin threatened in the days before Russia’s invasion to retaliate harshly against any nations that intervened directly in the conflict in Ukraine, and he specifically raised the specter of his country’s status as a nuclear power.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations responded to the news from Moscow while appearing on a Sunday news program.

“President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. “And we have to continue to condemn his actions in the most strong, strongest possible way.”

The practical meaning of Putin’s order was not immediately clear. Russia and the United States typically have the land- and submarine-based segments of their strategic nuclear forces on alert and prepared for combat at all times, but nuclear-capable bombers and other aircraft are not.

If Putin is arming or otherwise raising the nuclear combat readiness of his bombers, or if he is ordering more ballistic missile submarines to sea, then the United States might feel compelled to respond in kind, according to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. That would mark a worrisome escalation and a potential crisis, he said.

The alarming step came as street fighting broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city and Russian troops squeezed strategic ports in the country’s south, advances that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia’s invasion following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere in the country.

Around the same time as Putin’s nuclear move, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said on the Telegram messaging app that the two sides would meet at an unspecified location on the Belarusian border. The message did not give a precise time for the meeting.

The announcement came hours after Russia announced that its delegation had flown to Belarus to await talks. Ukrainian officials initially rejected the move, saying any talks should take place elsewhere than Belarus, where Russia placed a large contingent of troops. Belarus was one of the places from where Russian troops entered Ukraine.

Earlier Sunday, the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was eerily quiet after huge explosions lit up the morning sky and authorities reported blasts at one of the airports. Only an occasional car appeared on a deserted main boulevard as a strict 39-hour curfew kept people off the streets. Terrified residents instead hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale Russian assault.

“The past night was tough – more shelling, more bombing of residential areas and civilian infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said.

Until Sunday, Russia’s troops had remained on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) south of the border with Russia, while other forces rolled past to press the offensive deeper into Ukraine.

Videos posted on Ukrainian media and social networks showed Russian vehicles moving across Kharkiv and Russian troops roaming the city in small groups. One showed Ukrainian troops firing at the Russians and damaged Russian light utility vehicles abandoned nearby.

The images underscored the determined resistance Russian troops face while attempting to enter Ukraine’s bigger cities. Ukrainians have volunteered en masse to help defend the capital, Kyiv, and other cities, taking guns distributed by authorities and preparing firebombs to fight Russian forces.

Ukraine’s government also is releasing prisoners with military experience who want to fight for the country, a prosecutor’s office official, Andriy Sinyuk, told the Hromadske TV channel Sunday. He did not specify whether the move applied to prisoners convicted of all levels of crimes.

Putin hasn’t disclosed his ultimate plans, but Western officials believe he is determined to overthrow Ukraine’s government and replace it with a regime of his own, redrawing the map of Europe and reviving Moscow’s Cold War-era influence.

The pressure on strategic ports in the south of Ukraine appeared aimed at seizing control of the country’s coastline stretching from the border with Romania in the west to the border with Russia in the east. A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Russian forces had blocked the cities of Kherson on the Black Sea and the port of Berdyansk on the Azov Sea.

He said the Russian forces also took control of an airbase near Kherson and the Azov Sea city of Henichesk. Ukrainian authorities also have reported fighting near Odesa, Mykolaiv and other areas.

Cutting Ukraine’s access to its sea ports would deal a major blow to the country’s economy. It also could allow Moscow to build a land corridor to Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014 and until now was connected to Russia by a 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge, the longest bridge in Europe which opened in 2018.

Flames billowed from an oil depot near an airbase in Vasylkiv, a city 37 kilometers (23 miles) south of Kyiv where there has been intense fighting, according to the mayor. Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, prompting the government to warn people to cover their windows with damp cloth or gauze as protection from smoke, the president’s office said.

Ukrainian military deputy commander Lt.-Gen. Yevhen Moisiuk sounded a defiant note in a message aimed at Russian troops.

“Unload your weapons, raise your hands so that our servicemen and civilians can understand that you have heard us. This is your ticket home,” Moisiuk said in a Facebook video.

The number of casualties so far from Europe’s largest land conflict since World War II remains unclear amid the fog of combat.

Ukraine’s health minister reported Saturday that 198 people, including three children, had been killed and more than 1,000 others wounded. It was unclear whether those figures included both military and civilian casualties. Russia has not released any casualty information.

Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, tweeted Saturday that Ukraine appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross “to facilitate repatriation of thousands of bodies of Russian soldiers.” An accompanying chart claimed 3,500 Russian troops have been killed.

Laetitia Courtois, ICRC’s permanent observer to the U.N., told The Associated Press that the situation in Ukraine was “a limitation for our teams on the ground” and “we therefore cannot confirm numbers or other details.”

The United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday that about 368,000 Ukrainians have arrived in neighboring countries since the invasion started Thursday. The U.N. has estimated the conflict could produce as many as 4 million refugees, depending how long it continues.

Zelenskyy denounced Russia’s offensive as “state terrorism.” He said the attacks on Ukrainian cities should be investigated by an international war crimes tribunal and cost Russia its place as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

As Russia pushes ahead with its offensive, the West is working to equip the outnumbered Ukrainian forces with weapons and ammunition while punishing Russia with far-reaching sanctions intended to further isolate Moscow.

The U.S. pledged an additional $350 million in military assistance to Ukraine, including anti-tank weapons, body armor and small arms. Germany said it would send missiles and anti-tank weapons to the besieged country and that it would close its airspace to Russian planes.

The U.S., European Union and United Kingdom agreed to block “selected” Russian banks from the SWIFT global financial messaging system, which moves money around more than 11,000 banks and other financial institutions worldwide, part of a new round of sanctions aiming to impose a severe cost on Moscow for the invasion. They also agreed to impose ”restrictive measures” on Russia’s central bank.

Responding to a request from Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Twitter that his satellite-based internet system Starlink was now active in Ukraine and that there were “more terminals en route.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, meanwhile, said Sunday that his country was committing 100 billion euros ($112.7 billion) to a special fund for its armed forces, raising its defense spending above 2% of gross domestic product. Scholz told a special session of the Bundestag the investment was needed “to protect our freedom and our democracy.”

Putin sent troops into Ukraine after denying for weeks that he intended to do so, all the while building up a force of almost 200,000 troops along the countries’ borders. He claims the West has failed to take seriously Russia’s security concerns about NATO, the Western military alliance that Ukraine aspires to join. But he has also expressed scorn about Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent state.

Russia claims its assault on Ukraine is aimed only at military targets, but bridges, schools and residential neighborhoods have been hit.

Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, said Ukraine was gathering evidence of shelling of residential areas, kindergartens and hospitals to submit to an international war crimes court in The Hague as possible crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has said he is monitoring the conflict closely.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Sunday that Putin could use “the most unsavory means,” including banned chemical or biological weapons, to defeat Ukraine.

“I urge the Russians not to escalate this conflict, but we do need to be prepared for Russia to seek to use even worse weapons,” Truss told Sky News.

Putin puts Russia's nuclear forces on alert, cites sanctions

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers.

apnews.com

 

[RVNX]

If the sanctions don't bother him why is he mad about them to a point of threatening nuclear war again? Didn't he just say the other day that Russia could live well without the west? Either way, someone's getting desperate.

 

[Reverend]

More bluffing by Pootin

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Damn, Putin really is getting fucking desperate. If he's making threats like this, then you know the war isn't going over very well, and that all those shipments of weapons and sanctions really are hurting his country and his war effort.

 

[Bold&Brash]

Can Russfags finally stop being butthurt and admit that their garbage empire failed 30 years ago?
Besides what incels in this thread tell you this war just hurts the only thing that matters Anno 2022: my investment portfolio

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Can Russfags finally stop being butthurt and admit that their garbage empire failed 30 years ago?
Besides what incels in this thread tell you this war just hurts the only thing that matters Anno 2022: my investment portfolio

It's been failing ever since, and this war is the culmination of its failures.

Instead of focusing on building a real free-market economy or stopping the population decline and the rampant crime and alcohol abuse, they decided to go invade another country to restore THE GREAT SOVIET MOTHERLAND. And it's blowing up in their faces, to the point where they're threatening to start firing nukes.

Any idiot who keeps claiming that Russia is this based, orderly Christian society hasn't been paying attention to what's going on in it.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Ukraine and Russia set to hold negotiations at border with Belarus, says office of President Zelenskyy​

A statement on the Telegram messaging app said the two sides would meet at an unspecified location on the Belarusian border and did not give a precise time for the meeting.​

Ukraine and Russia are set to hold negotiations at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, according to the office of President Zelenskyy.

A statement on the Telegram messaging app said the two sides would meet at an unspecified location on the Belarusian border and did not give a precise time for the meeting.

The announcement came hours after Russia announced that its delegation had flown to Belarus to await talks.

Ukrainian officials initially rejected the move, saying any talks should take place elsewhere than Belarus, where Russia has placed a large contingent of troops.

Putin's nuclear threat

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert in response to what he called "aggressive statements" by leading NATO powers.

Speaking at a meeting with his top officials, Mr Putin directed the Russian defence minister and the chief of the military's General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty".

"Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere," he said in televised comments.

"But top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country."

The US ambassador to the United Nations responded to the comments from Moscow.

"President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable," ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.

"And we have to continue to condemn his actions in the most strong, strongest possible way."

She added that it "remains to be seen" if Russia is acting in good faith regarding the talks.

Anti-war protests continue across Russia

From Moscow to Siberia, Russian anti-war activists have taken to the streets again to protest against the invasion, despite the arrests of hundreds of protesters each day.

Demonstrators have been holding marches in city centres, chanting "No to war!".

Protests against the invasion started on Thursday in Russia and have continued daily ever since, even as police have moved swiftly to crack down on the rallies and detain protesters.

The protests on Sunday appeared smaller than the ones on Thursday, the first day of Russia's attack in Ukraine, when thousands of people rallied in Moscow and St Petersburg, but their true scale was hard to assess.

In St Petersburg, where dozens gathered in the city centre, police in full riot gear were seen grabbing one protester after another and dragging some into police vans, even though the demonstration was peaceful and no violent incidents have occurred.

According to the OVD-Info rights group that tracks political arrests, by Sunday afternoon, police had detained at least 356 Russians in 32 cities over anti-war demonstrations that day.

Ukraine and Russia set to hold negotiations at border with Belarus, says office of President Zelenskyy

A statement on the Telegram messaging app said the two sides would meet at an unspecified location on the Belarusian border and did not give a precise time for the meeting.

news.sky.com

 

[Product Placement]

If he is really threatening nukes and not just bullshiting wouldn't be shocked if a coup happened soon

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

If he is really threatening nukes and not just bullshiting wouldn't be shocked if a coup happened soon

At that point, anyone will prefer peace over the nukes flying. This delusional war will go down in history books as Putin's defeat.

But what the hell did Putin expect? Russia's economy is smaller than TEXAS. Its total GDP is 1.709 trillion USD, which lags behind Texas' GDP of 1.772 trillion USD. He thinks that can fund a war machine that can conquer a NATO-armed country? Was he mad? Smacking around the Chechens is one thing, but Ukraine is another, and he's learning that painfully now.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Parties to talks between Russia, Ukraine just arriving at their venue - Russian Foreign Ministry​

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have not yet begun, as the negotiators are arriving at the venue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"The Russian side has denied the start of the talks: the talks have not yet begun, the parties are just arriving at the place where they are to be held," the Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier, VGTRK journalist Yevgeny Popov said that the negotiations have begun citing an unnamed source on his Telegram channel.

Parties to talks between Russia, Ukraine just arriving at their venue - Russian Foreign Ministry

interfax.com

Belarus to deploy nuclear weapons if such weapons transferred to Poland or Lithuania - Lukashenko​

Nuclear weapons will again be deployed in Belarus if the West deploys such weapons near the country's borders, President Alexander Lukashenko said.

"When I was talking to [French President] Emmanuel Macron yesterday, he started talking to me about the referendum, but in the context of the deployment of nuclear weapons. I said, 'Emmanuel, if it were necessary to deploy nuclear weapons, we would deploy them according to this Constitution. Nobody is stopping us from doing that. And what makes you think that I want to produce or deploy nuclear weapons here?'" Lukashenko is quoted by the BelTA state-run news agency as saying to reporters after voting in a constitutional referendum in Minsk on Sunday.

"I said this under what condition. I say it again to him: "If America or you, France, a nuclear power, transfers nuclear weapons to Poland, Lithuania, to our borders, I'm not going to deploy them here (I don't possess these weapons), I'll ask Putin to return me the weapons I once gave you without any preconditions. That is it. There are no questions," the Belarusian president said.

Belarus to deploy nuclear weapons if such weapons transferred to Poland or Lithuania - Lukashenko

interfax.com

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

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As if we needed more proof that the Russian Church is a Kremlin mouthpiece run by ex-KGB goons.

They're not gonna give a shit about their flock sinking into alcoholism or committing abortions en-masse, but they are going to care if someone stops their dear leader from taking over another country.

What a joke.

 

[LettuceMan]

Germany will be throwing some monopoly money on its armed forces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ny-to-create-special-eu100b-armed-forces-fund

Only took them 30 years.

More bluffing by Pootin

Now we get to see if those nukes were actually maintained. That costs money and that means less for Putin and co. to embezzle out of the government.