Russia threatens nuclear war against all NATO members

[Esternial]

The US can probably decimate Russia before they can ensure any Mutually Assured Destruction.

I'm going with "bluff".

[Empire of Narnia]

ISIS doesn't operate in Chechnya, and they would probably agree to ignore Russian territories if they get to expand into Iraq, Syria and possibly beyond into S.A. and Egypt. ISIS should be the vicious beast Russia funds and unleashes upon the west. If this was a strategy game I would own it.

A vicious beast is hard to control. ISIS could indirectly support a Chechen revolt.

I think they would be too distracted fighting the secular middle eastern nations. Funding ISIS would be to distract the West, not to form a long-term ally.

[Geilinor]

A vicious beast is hard to control. ISIS could indirectly support a Chechen revolt.

I think they would be too distracted fighting the secular middle eastern nations. Funding ISIS would be to distract the West, not to form a long-term ally.

It doesn't sound like a good idea to become an accessory to genocide.

[United Kingdom of Poland]

A vicious beast is hard to control. ISIS could indirectly support a Chechen revolt.

I think they would be too distracted fighting the secular middle eastern nations. Funding ISIS would be to distract the West, not to form a long-term ally.

replace ISIS with Mujahedeen and west with USSR and you sound exactly like Charlie Wilson.

[Empire of Narnia]

I think they would be too distracted fighting the secular middle eastern nations. Funding ISIS would be to distract the West, not to form a long-term ally.

replace ISIS with Mujahedeen and west with USSR and you sound exactly like Charlie Wilson.

Don't criticize my sinister plans!

[Pimps Inc]

The US can probably decimate Russia before they can ensure any Mutually Assured Destruction.

I'm going with "bluff".

Is this like that card game called Bullshit?

[United Kingdom of Poland]

replace ISIS with Mujahedeen and west with USSR and you sound exactly like Charlie Wilson.

Don't criticize my sinister plans!

hard not to when said plan has more holes in it then a Crimean road sign.

[Independent State AF]

Don't criticize my sinister plans!

hard not to when said plan has more holes in it then a Crimean road sign.

OOOOOHHHH HE WENT THERE!!! OH daym. That burn stung XD

[Saiwania]

ISIS doesn't operate in Chechnya, and they would probably agree to ignore Russian territories if they get to expand into Iraq, Syria and possibly beyond into S.A. and Egypt. ISIS should be the vicious beast Russia funds and unleashes upon the west. If this was a strategy game I would own it.

Russia will never support IS and I think if anything, Russia would fight against it. Russians were the people who drove out the Ottoman Turks after these Islamic invaders were knocking at their doorstep.

[Kxcd]

I think they would be too distracted fighting the secular middle eastern nations. Funding ISIS would be to distract the West, not to form a long-term ally.

replace ISIS with Mujahedeen and west with USSR and you sound exactly like Charlie Wilson.

I think I like how Narnia thinks. If Vladimir were that stupid, it might actually work to weaken Russia, but he's not worried about them insofar as he wants Russia secured against Islamist terrorists.

Considering that Putin is slightly unhinged and in charge of a Nuclear Superpower, which he operates like a criminal mafia - would it still be unjustified to contemplate putting Polonium-210 in his teacup at the next round of 'peace negotiations' ? After all, what goes around, comes around.

And then some Russian ultranationalist nukes NATO.

ISIS doesn't operate in Chechnya, and they would probably agree to ignore Russian territories if they get to expand into Iraq, Syria and possibly beyond into S.A. and Egypt. ISIS should be the vicious beast Russia funds and unleashes upon the west. If this was a strategy game I would own it.

That may not go how you want it to, my friend.

As a Russian citizen, I highly doubt Putin will do shit.

God I hope you're right.

So do I.

[The Lone Alliance]

Really only response would be for every NATO power to take themselves up to whatever their equivalent of DEFCON 2 and go "Yeah and?"

[Empire of Narnia]

Don't criticize my sinister plans!

hard not to when said plan has more holes in it then a Crimean road sign.

I still think it would work though. I just wouldn't expand into ISIS territory, and keep them funded as long as they attack who I wanted them to attack. The upper leadership would know not to bite the hand that feeds them. Too bad they don't have a strategy game for this so I could test it out.

[Independent State AF]

Really only response would be for every NATO power to take themselves up to whatever their equivalent of DEFCON 2 and go "Yeah and?"

Yeah, pretty much that and for them to all put the keys in their ignition slots on their missile silos.
In all seriousness, Putins REEEAAALLYY starting to push his luck with how many insults the West will take

[Pimps Inc]

Don't criticize my sinister plans!

hard not to when said plan has more holes in it then a Crimean road sign.

[NeuPolska]

ISIS doesn't operate in Chechnya, and they would probably agree to ignore Russian territories if they get to expand into Iraq, Syria and possibly beyond into S.A. and Egypt. ISIS should be the vicious beast Russia funds and unleashes upon the west. If this was a strategy game I would own it.

Russia will never support IS and I think if anything, Russia would fight against it. Russians were the people who drove out the Ottoman Turks after these Islamic invaders were knocking at their doorstep.

Ummm...that was Poland. King Jan III Sobieski and the Winged Hussars

[Banesbane]

It's posturing, RT may be making the entire situation appear to be started by the US and Germany and that Poroshenko eats babies, but neither Putin nor RT (which is basically Putin's personal propaganda machine) are crazy enough to seriously support a nuclear strike over Ukraine. Mostly since everyone would die.

[Communist Latrobe]

Well, it depends who strikes first, and where, I think they would only go for the capitals, so their governments would fall.

Time for me to invest in Bomb shelter manafacturers.

REPENT THY SINS, IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!

[Lingang]

Russia is just flexing its muscles, I bet. Putin wouldn't actually go for nuclear war, he's not that stupid..... right?

[The Lone Alliance]

Really only response would be for every NATO power to take themselves up to whatever their equivalent of DEFCON 2 and go "Yeah and?"

Yeah, pretty much that and for them to all put the keys in their ignition slots on their missile silos.

No, I think at Two they just tell them to get a strong cup of coffee because they aren't sleeping anytime soon.

In all seriousness, Putins REEEAAALLYY starting to push his luck with how many insults the West will take

Maybe Putin's trying to see if any of our leaders have an actual spine.

[Shaka-Zulu]

The Russian fleet is a non-factor when it comes to menacing their neighbours and even then its allot better then it was

But quite impotent at menacing NATO, which is what I was getting at. If, for some reason, NATO decides to support the Ukraine, and as a result, Turkey closes the Straights and Demark closes the Sound to Russian traffic, Russia has no ability to force either position. At lot of their trade goes bye-bye as a result.

That would actually violate international law leading to both Denmark and and Turkey being sanctioned by most of the planet. When you own the only straight from body or water to another you can't close it off to other countries unless you have officially declared war on those countries and I doubt that either Turkey nor Denmark are prepared to officially declare war against Russia.

[Roski]

"This just in, Putin uses the same doctrine the Russians have had since they got nuclear weapons!"

[Northern European Senates remnants]

We'll doesn't matter what happens we should start stockpiling supplies because the world is going to explode.

[Shaka-Zulu]

"Let's go to Somalia together to force western values on them at the point of gun."

That's not what happened in Somalia. What happened was that Somalia didn't have a functioning government and UN humanitarian operations were extremely difficult to carry out.

Nah. It was just William Jefferson Clinton deciding with his wife, Hillary, that it was time to establish US territory in Africa by illegally invading the sovereign state that used to be Somalia. Somalia had no problems until the USA tried to illegally annex them by destroying their government.

[Geilinor]

That's not what happened in Somalia. What happened was that Somalia didn't have a functioning government and UN humanitarian operations were extremely difficult to carry out.

Somalia had no problems until the USA tried to illegally annex them by destroying their government.

What government? Somalia didn't have a government from 1991 to 2000.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

"This just in, Putin uses the same doctrine the Russians have had since they got nuclear weapons!"

Get out of here with your calm reasoning and facts.

It's amusing that the mere mention of Russia's nuclear arsenal constitutes an imminent threat of a nuclear first strike.