No. In truth, Putin's only remaining weapon is fear. He makes threats like a crêpe chef makes waffles. If we fall for it, we're all stuffed. - ThreadSky

ottoenglish.bsky.social • 109 days ago

No. In truth, Putin's only remaining weapon is fear. He makes threats like a crêpe chef makes waffles. If we fall for it, we're all stuffed.

Reposted from Gareth Davies

Biden has just made a massive suicidal move for the US and UK he has allowed Ukraine to now use long range ATACMS missiles against Russia, a massive Red line for Russia.

There are Russian missile destroyers sitting just off Britains coast if Starmer joins in with this lunacy

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stuafcb.bsky.social•109 days ago

I see the bunchofnumbers family are making their way over to Bluesky...

ukbygaslight.bsky.social•109 days ago

At least the algorithm won’t amplify them 🤞

palm3reldritch.bsky.social•109 days ago

A social media account with a name consisting solely of numbers? And it's pro-Putin? I am SHOCKED, I tell you. SHOCKED.

chrisgibbons.bsky.social•109 days ago

Years ago when the Berlin wall fell there was an opposite rush of people to check out Soviet kit before it disappeared. What was found was kit held together with duct tape, vehicles without fuel/parts that had been stolen (Ibramovich's first career) and troops not paid for weeks. Still the same?

andygee123.bsky.social•109 days ago

He clearly didn’t learn the lesson from the 1930s and the appeasement of the Nazis

thegoodbyte.net•109 days ago

Takes a brave man to read Putin's mind; also the minds of those around him.
The taboo (use of nuclear weapons) diminishing.

tomgreenslade.bsky.social•108 days ago

“Russia is nothing but painted rust.” Hold fast. They can fail.

val23ldn.bsky.social•109 days ago

Reality is both you and him don’t know what this is going to escalate, from my side it’s just scary

scottdouglass.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agree wholeheartedly and thanks, that seriously gave me the urge to go make crepes.

fitzjohn.bsky.social•109 days ago

The very fact that he's had to draft in (presumably unpaid) North Korean mercenaries speaks volumes.

dave-not-a-bot.bsky.social•109 days ago

I lived through the cold war..
I'm not going back to fear..

ianmackay.bsky.social•109 days ago

Putin isn't going to attack the west - he may be running a mafia petro state but he's not an idiot. Putin's neither cares or fears NATO, he fears a democratic Ukraine on his own doorstep that will make his own population demand the same.

andyfloki.bsky.social•109 days ago

He doesnt have long left now.

mdelafe.bsky.social•109 days ago

No. Putin's only remaining weapon is 6.000 nuclear warheads. But USA and UK are like 2 morons kicking a hive without think in the stings

paulkillick.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yeah did you not see the state of the Russian kit when they invaded Ukraine? I’d be more worried about a missile misfiring in a silo if they ever tried a launch, plus Russia is well aware of what would happen if they did… it’s called MAD for a reason

mdelafe.bsky.social•109 days ago

Your madness in underestimating the Russian nuclear arsenal in such a way is something the entire world will pay dearly for. By "your," I mean the USA and the UK.

paulkillick.bsky.social•109 days ago

Okay Putin fanboy! If Russia launches so does NATO and that’s the death of humanity caused by Russia using nuclear weapons. Again MAD was the threat from the 60’s up till the end of the Soviet Union

mdelafe.bsky.social•109 days ago

Well. First of all: Not all the people against USAUK foreign policies are pro Putin. I know what is MAD. Perfectly. That's why I'm terrified of you pushing Putin to the limits. I'm not pro russian, but I respect them. And chinese, and even anglos. Your problem is you disrespect everybody

mdelafe.bsky.social•109 days ago

Disrespecting. Sorry for my english.

paulkillick.bsky.social•109 days ago

Well no I don’t show respect to dictators who kill any of their people who disagree with them & have assassinated people on British soil. Nobody has pushed Putin to the limits he’s in the position he is by his own doing.

obbgf.bsky.social•108 days ago

Given that there are enough weapons to broil the world several times over it is moot how many weapons Putain can willy waggle.

paulkillick.bsky.social•108 days ago

I tried that it’s a lost cause that will soon turn to whataboutry and keep changing the subject away from the empty threat of nuclear war

ottoenglish.bsky.social•108 days ago

You think Putin is going to nuke the world because the UK gave Ukraine some medium range missiles? Don't be so naive

orionvor.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agree I think it’s a bluff, I think also his generals are smart enough to realise they’d be better off refusing any nuking orders that may come through and instead starting a coup

jodami.bsky.social•109 days ago

Just block the idiot.

cjnmcg.bsky.social•109 days ago

Reading his bio I'd have thought he'd welcome this chance to fight.

jodami.bsky.social•109 days ago

FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM.

A dictatorship has invaded a local ally.

NOT LIKE THAT. HOPE THE ALLIGATOR EATS ALL THE OTHERS FIRST.

tonymc47.bsky.social•109 days ago

Munich 1938 lends a lesson

holts102.bsky.social•109 days ago

Clearly didn’t read his own by line in his profile🙄

hornetgx.bsky.social•109 days ago

Russia does have some territorial momentum, but throwing unlimited lives at the problem without any sort of strategy to minimise casualties is not a sustainable solution. Not even for a country 100% under one man's control that doesn't care about human life.

We must help Ukraine stay the course. 🇺🇦

smithmichaelw.bsky.social•109 days ago

Ah the bots & trolls have made it to the sky, a sensible point is if Putin starts using his ship based missiles they will have to go back when they run out and that is quite a long way in open waters with no support..... he might want them back closer to home soon

briwestmidsuk.bsky.social•109 days ago

Fun fact.. there will be allied submissions sitting off Russia!!

mrrambler.bsky.social•109 days ago

By this logic we may as well just surrender the entire world to Putin just incase he doesn't nuke us.
If he is insane enough to have his entire country destroyed in return then who can stop him anyway?

stevewmobb.bsky.social•109 days ago

Fear and misinformation

mikedlondon.bsky.social•109 days ago

I did think the Mail were slightly overstating things, placing the risk of World War Three as a slightly more important news item than something about Strictly...

adeincambodia.bsky.social•109 days ago

Russia is struggling with Ukraine, a couple of boats off UK coast ain't a problem 😜

brentcrude.bsky.social•109 days ago

I don't want to underplay the threat, but if Ukraine can sink Russia's flagship with a couple of janky homemade missiles I don't think a couple of destroyers are much of a problem

pwrussell.bsky.social•109 days ago

Ironic that his bio makes so much of our ancestors’ ‘fight for freedom’ and the ‘decadence and degeneracy’ that apparently result when we don’t have to.

euroscanner.net•109 days ago

Nobody in his right mind is going to launch, or at least try to launch, missiles that even if they take off are probably carrying time expired, non functional or concrete warheads when he knows the ones coming his way will work. All of them.

sueryan66bskysocia.bsky.social•109 days ago

Quite. Look where capitulation has got us.

grumpybb.bsky.social•109 days ago

Suspiciously like a bot account, or just another useful idiot for Putin.

rgallacher.bsky.social•109 days ago

We're already in ww3. Best to win it

marykaty.bsky.social•109 days ago

At some point we were going to HAVE to stand up to Putin. I think Biden has made the right choice & is doing it before Trump takes over to try & strengthen Ukraine. Putin knows if he does use a nuclear weapon one is very likely to come right back at him. No one wins.

itsbjb.bsky.social•109 days ago

Oui chef.

paulkillick.bsky.social•109 days ago

Look I get everyone is panicked about nuclear weapons but pretty much everyone over 40 grew up with that fear and the understanding that they won’t get used because people like Putin also don’t want to die. As for attacking U.K. it’s not like his quick win in Ukraine has worked out well

garygasman.bsky.social•109 days ago

Fear and high windows. Fear and high windows, woeful efficiency, and a fanatical devotion to himself!

charliehickman.bsky.social•109 days ago

“… surprise and fear. No one expects the…”

malemet.bsky.social•109 days ago

😆 and yet there they are.

rodselby.bsky.social•109 days ago

Perhaps an appropriate quote for dealing with Putin?

"You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw"
Vladimir Ilich Lenin

petecurransghost.bsky.social•108 days ago

Report him and then block him.

motherxmas.bsky.social•109 days ago

Thinking about it, if we're going to be nuked at least I don't need to bother shampooing my carpet. Always a bright side :).

motherxmas.bsky.social•109 days ago

It astonishes me that the very people who laud our WW2 heroes are the very ones suggesting capitulation now. Bravery is fine so long as they don't have to do it. Those of us who grew up during the cold war are just buying a hay bale to stick up our chimney and buying an extra can of beans.

chrissy72.bsky.social•109 days ago

This is positioning prior to a peace deal.

malemet.bsky.social•109 days ago

Being very old, the one thing I remember about the Russians is they'll fight down to the last man. You don't have to like them but you do need to know it.

avazig.bsky.social•109 days ago

Not true. He has Trump

chiefrocka10.bsky.social•109 days ago

Gareth (if he is real) is promoting fear. Russia and their friends rely on fear.

ottoenglish.bsky.social•109 days ago

I don't think he is which is why I reposted him

didizedoinger.bsky.social•109 days ago

Gareth Davies needs to think through what he's saying. Ukraine launching Atacms into Russia as a retaliatory act and suggesting a Russian destroyer could be a threat to the UK is frankly stupid - very stupid. A single missile launched at the UK is the first step to WW4 (the real, last ever war).

cluthaman.bsky.social•109 days ago

Classic brinkmanship. If both sides are rational there is little to fear. It’s when one side gets uncontrollably paranoid you need to worry. We may soon have paranoids in the Kremlin and White House.

w2jmf.bsky.social•109 days ago

Easy to say. Scotland would be the first target…. 🤦🏼‍♀️

evening48.bsky.social•109 days ago

Scotland would be their first target but that doesn't make Otto English wrong.

devonianmatthew.bsky.social•109 days ago

Russian warships sitting just off Britain's coast also means they are not far off the coasts of NATO's Norway, Denmark, Germany, NL, Belgium, and France if in the Channel or North Sea.

baratheongirl.bsky.social•109 days ago

Call his bluff. Been saying this for 2 years. Appeasement hasn't worked, he's done exactly what he wanted whilst we pussy foot around.

marrey.bsky.social•109 days ago

Exactly.
How much Russian tech have we got laying around the house?
Reason?
It's rubbish.
Putin might have 6000 nuclear warheads, but are any of them likely to work properly?
More likely to explode before leaving the ground.

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emcsull.bsky.social•109 days ago

agreed

northernash.bsky.social•109 days ago

Do you know if there's a good in-depth article or book on Putin and his close allies / successors?

Obviously he's a tyrant who plans to live forever, but I'm also very curious to know what experts predict will happen when he dies or is somehow brought down.

savagerat.bsky.social•109 days ago

You could try Putin's People, by Catherine Belton.

savagerat.bsky.social•109 days ago

(Although that's more about his history)

trudyuelme1.bsky.social•103 days ago

But connections are made
An expensive poison by Luke Harding is great book on the beginning of the Russian oligarch crime syndicate TOC

wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social•99 days ago

Almost mandatory primer, TV-docu:

'Thieves by Law' / 'Diebe im Gesetz' / 'Ganavim Ba Hok'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves_by_Law

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