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Will there be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia? Depends on who\u2019s doing the talking about it, in reality. Putin\/Russia says \u201cNyet\u201d, because \u2013 well, that\u2019s was Vlad does. On the other hand, more informed sources say the same thing: there is no reason for a war over who\u2019s in charge in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/6\/ukraine-says-dont-believe-apocalyptic-predictions-over-russia<\/a><\/p>\n However, as usual, the occupant of the Oval Office has too weak a concept of what is really going on over in Eastern Europe right now and says some blatherskite thing like \u201cWe\u2019re prepared to defend something-something-something as part of our territorial whatever\u201d \u2013 something like that.<\/p>\n On the other hand, people more familiar with what\u2019s on in Ukraine do have their own views of it, and are concerned about Vlad\u2019s troop\/armored stuff movements.<\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies, said one \u201cfrightening\u201d aspect of the news reports was that US intelligence believes Putin may hold nuclear exercises<\/a> in the region over the next month.<\/p>\n Russia possesses the largest nuclear arsenal in the world with an estimated 4,500 warheads, and any such manoeuvres would send a serious message to NATO, she said.<\/p>\n Fallon also noted Europe has not seen such large troop movements since the Cold War.<\/p>\n \u201cIn order to have peace you must prepare for war so you have to consider all possibilities. And if there should be, God forbid, a war there would be high civilian casualty rates among the civilian population,\u201d she told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n Polyanskiy, a Russian representative to the UN, called the US media reports released over the weekend \u201cmadness and scaremongering\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat if we would say the US could seize London in a week and cause 300K civilian deaths? All this based on our intelligence sources that we won\u2019t disclose,\u201d said Polyanskiy. – article<\/p>\n My own view of it is simpler: tell Vlad to put a sock in it and start making a deal with the government of Ukraine to build him a port and a navy yard (for ship construction) on the Black Sea. That way he can have his desperate wish for easy access to the Med, so that his poor old tin cans don’t have to go wandering around the North Sea in this kind of weather!<\/p>\n But that\u2019s just my viewpoint.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"