Thread by @JBelcourt73

So last night
@POTUS
revealed what those of us who have been paying attention already knew. The world is closer to #Armageddon than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. cbsnews.com/news/biden-arm…

why did he say it, was it just an old man's flub to be walked back like the Taiwan comments (could it be walked back), or was it deliberate and if so, who was the audience. I think some context is needed.

First, Russia has been making nuclear threats for months and has already engaged in nuclear terrorism at least 2 nuclear sites in #Ukraine: Zaporizhya and Chernobyl and recently his puppets have begun openly discussing the use of strategic nuclear weapons in response to

battlefield reversals in Ukraine. Third, despite these threats the US has continued to supply Ukraine and keeps announcing more and more "security assistance" packages. I think these 3 facts together show the US is taking a poker rather than chess approach. Biden's statement was

clearly aimed at both Putin's insiders (calling his bluff), and letting China (who plays Go) that the US is all in. A Biden also said it's hard to see how a "tactical" nuclear release doesn't escalate. I've made that same observation many times. Once someone

crosses that Rubicon there is no way to believe they won't do it again and so it's a life-or-death situation. Russia also knows that any release will see at a minimum a massive NATO conventional response and so might as well go all in ad initio and try for a decapitation strike

which will of course fail leading to both counter-force and counter-value strikes and poof, welcome to the New Dark Age if you happen to avoid being killed and survive the post exchange die off. The net result of Biden's comments is generals and wonks in DC, Moscow and Bejing are

all now in crisis mode. In Moscow any sane heads that have access are trying to dissuade Putin from becoming the last leader of Russia and in China the experts are pushing Xi to confront Putin (privately) to back away from the nuclear red line. Xi doesn't want to be the last

emperor of China any more than Putin's cronies want the pedofillic nutter to be the last Czar. In DC and the West the response is going to be more diverse. The appeasers and vatnik lovers will start their "Chicken Little" song and dance and base political opportunists will

provide the chorus. People with actual expertise know that what the president said is a simple truth. We have already seen how many retired generals say this? The institutional thinking didn't change 180 after the last retirement. So what about the little people, you and I and

like us. We have no big levers to move policy and yet our lives are being ransomed by Kleptograd on one hand and antied up on the other. Do we get a say? Yes we do. I urge you to contact your leaders and tell them we must oppose genocide and nuclear terrorism or it will never

stop. I know @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill know the stakes. Russia is not going to let Camden, AR off the hook for building #HIMARS. The bridges over the Mississippi, LR Airforce Base #HercNation and probably a dozen other doomsday pies ready to be eaten.

if we don't stand up now, then eventually it will be too late and there won't be a way to talk the madman off the ledge. He is mad by the way, complete nutter and he would feel as much remorse taking us all with him as a school shooter does in killing kids. He is evil at the

most base level. But unlike school shooters, he is not completely isolated from reality. He had to make a statement about the botched mobilization after all. Plus, we are now getting reports of some serious infighting among his inner circle. I don't care who wins that fight so

long as they are "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" believers. Thats the only criteria for who the "least evil" of Putin's inner circle grand championship event winner is. That power struggle brings up another facet of the conversation. Should Ukraine slow

down? Would a Ukrainian pause give the any anti-nuclear voices more or less assistance in the power struggle? We already know what the Vatnik line is, but a broken clock is still right twice a day so.... In this case though they are still wrong. Putin wants a frozen conflict, he

is all but begging for it. Only the complete rupture of the Russian position in Ukraine will give any voices inside the Kremlin any weight at all to get him to take the Yeltsin deal where his and his families person safety and wealth is vouch safed by whomever takes the crown.

That means the fighting, dying and suffering must continue. It sucks this is a war that never should have happened. So until Putin decides how he will exit the stage we need to keep doing our part. Keep donating to worthwhile charities like @MriyaAid, @UkraineAidOps and other

charities you trust. Combat Russian dis-info and help #NAFO and the #FELLAS keep the cause of Ukraine alive online. Plus if you join NAFO you will help support some ass kicking wolves in the @georgian_legion as they turn invaders into compost. Combating Russian dis-info requires

good information so hunt down reliable sources and listen in to the @MriyaReport and then take what you know to your coworkers, neighbors and family members there is a lot of bad info and fear going around. Do your part to counter it. Promote Ukraine and Ukrainian voices, robust

public support of Ukraine is how our politicians know to stand up to the nuclear threats. Which by the way brings up a, "Merica fuck yeah" moment. 3 in 4 of my countrymen back Ukraine despite the nuclear threats reuters.com/world/europe/t…

so util Ukraine wins on Ukraine's terms: Slava Ukraini! PS give @ValerijZaluznij a follow. Officers and historians will be studying him for generations to come. In it too win it!

#RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsLosing #UkraineWillWin #GenocideOfUkrainians #NuclearArmageddon @mfa_russia <--- still losing and your furher has had at least 1 too many birthdays and if you don't stop him your kids will have too few of them.

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