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"For three years, we’ve been warning that the Russians are preparing a provocation — specifically, plans to seize part of the Baltic states, declare sovereignty there, and cover it with nuclear weapons. This would demonstrate NATO's weakness and give Russia its greatest geopolitical victory,” the expert explained.

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In the meantime, Baltic states have attempted to seize ships in international waters that they suspect of being part of a "ghost fleet", leading Russia to consider armed convoys for commercial ships.

We don't have to worry about a Russian provocation. The chihuahua nations are already yapping and snapping.

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ZELENSKY et al fucked themselves hard by going after Russian strategic assets. Both Russia AND the USA have reason to be pissed. Russia says they aren't going to retaliate. Trump, tho, IS apparently retaliating by withholding weapons.

The current hellfire being rained down on Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine’s drone strike or their terrorist attack on a passenger train. (The saboteurs waited until a passenger train was on the bridge before blowing it, killing 7 and injuring over 100.) The current combined missile and drone attack needed to have been planned at least several weeks in advance- targets identified, missiles and drones programmed, etc etc. Russia's aerial attack is more probably related to their summer offensive, which seems to have started a couple of weeks ago.

A Russian source for the Duran, however, did say that in response to the terror attack on the passenger train, Russia is in the process of authorizing an assassination of some Ukrainian officials. And if some unintended people are killed ... oh well. Not sure if this is for real or just psyops to sow fear into Kiev's security state, but if it happens I won't be surprised.

Russia treats terrorists very differently than soldiers, and if they upgrade the SMO to an ATO (anti-terror operation) the gloves will come off even more. That includes assassinating those they decide are terrorists.

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Gabbard warns of ‘nuclear holocaust’ in ominous social media video

The director of national intelligence said the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned of a “nuclear holocaust” and chastised “warmongers” for bringing the world “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” in a foreboding video posted to social media on Tuesday.

In the three-minute video, Gabbard details a recent visit to Hiroshima, Japan to learn more about the aftermath of the U.S. nuclear attack on the city in 1945 during World War II. The video features footage of Gabbard’s trip and archival footage showing victims, interspersed with Gabbard speaking directly to camera about the consequences of a nuclear attack.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/tulsi-gabbard-nuclear-weapons
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It was said she was a Russian sympathizer from day one. Just like you comrade signym, just like you. You just don't have the courage to say it.

Gabbard is spreading Russian propaganda just like Trump. Trump was Jeffery Epstein's best friend for 15 years. Putin has the goods on Trump being a pedophile. It's that simple.

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This may have nothing to do with Russia. You don't know the deliberations going on behind the scenes. May be related to IRAN. Trump is being advised "all options" related to Iran, and when they say "all" they mean INCLUDING NUCLEAR.

Long story: Iran is a NUCLEAR THRESHHOLD NATION. They have a stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. One more step and it becomes weapons grade. (You only need about 3% for power generation.) They have sophisticated missiles capable of withstanding the heat of re-entry without frying its electronics.

Netanyahu still was refusing a deal with Iran allowing appx 3% enrichment which means no deal. The only MILITARY way to deal with Iran's nuclear facilities, buried deep underground, is with a nuclear weapon.

So ....

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

ZELENSKY et al fucked themselves hard by going after Russian strategic assets. Both Russia AND the USA have reason to be pissed. Russia says they aren't going to retaliate. Trump, tho, IS apparently retaliating by withholding weapons.

The current hellfire being rained down on Ukraine has nothing to do with Ukraine’s drone strike or their terrorist attack on a passenger train. (The saboteurs waited until a passenger train was on the bridge before blowing it, killing 7 and injuring over 100.) The current combined missile and drone attack needed to have been planned at least several weeks in advance- targets identified, missiles and drones programmed, etc etc. Russia's aerial attack is more probably related to their summer offensive, which seems to have started a couple of weeks ago.

A Russian source for the Duran, however, did say that in response to the terror attack on the passenger train, Russia is in the process of authorizing an assassination of some Ukrainian officials. And if some unintended people are killed ... oh well. Not sure if this is for real or just psyops to sow fear into Kiev's security state, but if it happens I won't be surprised.

Russia treats terrorists very differently than soldiers, and if they upgrade the SMO to an ATO (anti-terror operation) the gloves will come off even more. That includes assassinating those they decide are terrorists.

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THG:
Gabbard warns of ‘nuclear holocaust’ in ominous social media video

The director of national intelligence said the world is “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned of a “nuclear holocaust” and chastised “warmongers” for bringing the world “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” in a foreboding video posted to social media on Tuesday.

In the three-minute video, Gabbard details a recent visit to Hiroshima, Japan to learn more about the aftermath of the U.S. nuclear attack on the city in 1945 during World War II. The video features footage of Gabbard’s trip and archival footage showing victims, interspersed with Gabbard speaking directly to camera about the consequences of a nuclear attack.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/tulsi-gabbard-nuclear-weapons
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It was said [BY WHO?] she was a Russian sympathizer from day one. Just like you comrade signym, just like you. You just don't have the courage to say it.

Gabbard is spreading Russian propaganda just like Trump. Trump was Jeffery Epstein's best friend for 15 years. Putin has the goods on Trump being a pedophile. It's that simple.

SIGNY:
This may have nothing to do with Russia. You don't know the deliberations going on behind the scenes. May be related to IRAN. Trump is being advised "all options" related to Iran, and when they say "all" they mean INCLUDING NUCLEAR.

Long story: Iran is a NUCLEAR THRESHHOLD NATION. They have a stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. One more step and it becomes weapons grade. (You only need about 3% for power generation.) They have sophisticated missiles capable of withstanding the heat of re-entry without frying its electronics.

Netanyahu still was refusing a deal with Iran allowing appx 3% enrichment which means no deal. The only MILITARY way to deal with Iran's nuclear facilities, buried deep underground, is with a nuclear weapon.

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Why would it be Iran comrade? You can't trigger a nuclear war with a country that doesn't have nukes. Besides, this is a Putin talking point. Instead of coming to Putin's aid so quickly, try thinking things through before you post. It will save you some embarrassment.

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War Brewing? US Prepares Departure Of All Nonessential Staff From Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain Embassies

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US military authorizes voluntary departure of troops' dependents across Mideast, officials say

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#Rootin4Putin

Fuck Ukraine.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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War Brewing? US Prepares Departure Of All Nonessential Staff From Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain Embassies

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Israel Launches Airstrikes On Tehran: Stock Futures Plunge; Oil And Gold Soar

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No, son. YOU posted that Tulsi Gabbard was warning against a nuclear risk, and since YOU posted in the Russia thread, the implication was that it's a RUSSIAN nuclear threat.

I was redirecting your RUSSIA!RUSSIA! paranoia to another, MORE LIKELY RISK, which is the mideast.

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I was right, and you were wrong.
You should have posted in the "Who Hates Israel" thread.

You have Russia on the brain. Stop it. Seriously. It's bad for you.

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You'd rather twist your brain into a pretzel than admit you're wrong, even to yourself.

Got it.

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Oh, BTW - Russia is going to win in Ukraine.

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Oh, BTW - Russia is going to win in Ukraine.

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Putin Has Won

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Largest Russian Strikes In Months Hit Ukrainian Capital, Killing 15 & Wounding Over 100
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Russia overnight unleashed one of its largest and sustained attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in recent months, resulting in 15 people killed and over one hundred wounded.

The assault, which lasted some ten hours, involved a coordinated barrage of drones, ballistic, and cruise missiles - and severely impacted residential areas, including a direct hit on a nine-story apartment building in the city's Solomyanskyi district.
Via Al Jazeera

Part of the building collapsed after being struck by Shahed drones and a ballistic missile. Emergency crews were responding to the smoke-filled scene through the morning hours.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that "every minute the number of injured and dead is increasing, we cannot say for certain how many casualties there have been."

Speaking to journalists at the scene, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that “every minute the number of injured and dead is increasing, we cannot say for certain how many casualties there have been.”

The aftermath of the attack has been documented at two dozen separate sites across Kyiv’s Solomianskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Podilskyi and Obolonskyi districts.

City authorities indicated fires raged into Tuesday in at least to locations of the capital, and further described:

"Today, the enemy spared neither drones nor missiles," Klymenko said, describing the attack as one of the largest against Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.

Thirty apartments were destroyed in a single residential block, and emergency services were searching through the rubble for possible survivors, Klymenko added.

Attempting to get Washington's attention, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha suggested the "massive and brutal strike" was deliberately timed and so is a serious insult to President Donald Trump.

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"Putin does this on purpose, just during the G7 summit. He sends a signal of total disrespect to the United States and other partners who have called for an end to the killing," he stated on social media. There are reports that an American citizen died in the attack.

"During the attack on Kyiv, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen died in a dwelling in the Solomianskyi district opposite where medics were providing assistance," Klitschko said. "Medics noted his clinical, biological death."

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Well, I do, actually. When I see all those fortress-like apartment high rises being destroyed, all those carefully tended farmhouses blown open, fields and carefully tended treelines being destroyed, that's decades and decades of human effort.

And I've seen some awfully gruesome videos of soldiers in heavily laid minefields, with their legs getting blown off, crawling towards help, trailing bloody chunks. Or being burned alive by drone in an APC.

War is carnage. I pray the Ukraine government surrenders soon instead of throwing everything and everyone they have into the meat grinder.

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