On Monday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned the US to listen to warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin about allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with American-made weapons.
“I would like to caution American officials against miscalculations which may have fatal consequences. For some unknown reason, they underestimate the seriousness of the rebuff they may receive,” Ryabkov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
“I am urging these officials who seemingly are not bothered by anything, to take some time away from playing computer games, which is apparently what they are doing, given their light-hearted approach to serious issues, and take a closer look at what Putin said, particularly at a press conference following talks in Tashkent,” he added, referring to a warning Putin issued during a recent visit to Uzbekistan.
Putin said there would be “serious consequences” for any NATO country that allowed Ukraine to hit Russian territory with its weapons. “This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict?” Putin said.
Ryabkov called Putin’s comments “a very significant warning, and it should be treated with the utmost seriousness.”
Russia also previously warned the UK that it would strike British military sites in Ukraine “and beyond” if British weapons were used on Russian territory.
US and other Western officials have shrugged off the warnings despite the major risk of escalation. “This is nothing new. It has … been the case for a long time that every time NATO allies are providing support to Ukraine, President Putin is trying to threaten us to not do that,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.
Despite Stoltenberg’s comments, the risk of Russian retaliation is very high since Putin has a history of escalating the war in Ukraine in direct response to attacks on Russian territory. For example, Russia did not begin major strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure until after the first bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022.
Putin has also said that Russia’s new offensive in Kharkiv is a response to Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, which borders Kharkiv. He said the purpose of the offensive was to create a “buffer zone” to prevent attacks on Belgorod.
Stupid crazy people at the helm.
They're beyond stupid and crazy, that's some kid at a skatepark doing dangerous things without a helmet
These AH's are just plain psychopaths
Not just crazy, but evil.
When it comes to fatal miscalculations one could say the same for Hamas.
Hamas decision to attack Israel has resulted in 10,000 plus Hamas terrorists getting killed and another 20,000 plus civilians.
You mean Israel’s decision.
Well, the ASI's decision to spend a half-century imprisoning, starving, humiliating, and slowly exterminating Palestinians in Gaza "has resulted in" the Hamassian raid of Oct 7th.
Be cautious not to begin history where you find it convenient to, Timothy.
Hamas decision killed less than 800 civilians. And those civilians were left to fend for themselves because the IDF refused to give a heads up to the music festival organizers that a possible attack was imminent. And using your logic, Netanyahu's preference for Hamas over the PLO means that Netanyahu was responsible for Oct 7th.
If Russia wants to really scare people, it could start holding meetings in bunkers hidden deep within the Ural Mountains.
They really don't need to travel or commute; Discord & other online meetup apps allow users to set custom backgrounds. RF officials could just use still pics from one of their bunkers. So long as the pic doesn't show the Big Board.
https://x.com/yarotrof/stat…
Send video of their meetings in the Urals.
Russia has 0 credibility left
Russia keeps talking about fatal mistakes. The reality is Russia has already suffered drones in Moscow. I am beginning to sadly realize: the Doctrine of Mass Mutual Destruction is over. Humanity is not quite crazy enough to end it all, so our leaders will just keep on pushing us ever closer to the edge.
This is the fault of Joey Biden and the Uni-party in Washington.
Harvard and Yale elites who have nothing in common with American citizens or any other civilized people!
Nope. I don't want to.
The difference between US terrorist doctrine and Russian defense plans is a clear contrast between civilized humans and grotesque barbarians;
Compassionate and caring Russians aim their atom bombs at military targets and US perverts aim at civilian populations in cities.
HAHAHA. You keep drinking that Russian Kool-Aid, comrade!
1. GC is correct.
2. It was Flavor Aid used at Jonestown, not Kool-Aid. A cheap knock-off created an erroneous trope that persists.
But the saying is what it is. People also say put a "Band-Aid" on a problem when it could be any commercial bandage. You right-wingers and tankies have a problem with anything outside of the literal. That's why you can't understand complex issues. (Black and white instead of shades of gray.)
There you go with "right wingers" again. Judging by past comments of those you are replying to, I'd say they are far from being right wingers.
Some are, some aren't. (The second group consists of tankies.)
I won't even acknowledge "tankies". Grow up.
No.
$5 says Ratio uses "Coloureds" when rambling at his grandkids.
(Hey Ratio – you see how s**tball assumptions can make an otherwise thoughtful person look idiotic ?)
Sure. Go with that. (It’s stupid AND inaccurate.)
So you see how it feels, then ?
So stop doing it.
The saying is wrong and we're wise as a society to get it right. Doing otherwise is how falsehoods become the default.
If I haven't made it abundantly clear before, please write it down on a Post-It (or reasonably priced facsimile) where you can perhaps notice :
1. I take t***ie as a racial slur, so if you use it in conversation with me, you do so with that intent.
2. My political quadrant IS and REMAINS "Libertarian Left". You're wasting both brush & tar with an 'insult' that doesn't apply to me.
And in written conversations, unless the writer possesses an elevated level of skill with words and especially punctuation (something Sully fails at CONSTANTLY), innuendo and implication are easily misunderstood – therefore it is best and safest for the reader to take a literal read off the actual words printed.
Actually no one cares if a saying is accurate. They will use the common idiom for ease-of-understanding.
1) I can use a Post-It note for this if you’d like: I don’t give flying f**k how you take what I say.
2) I would classify a “Libertarian Left” a textbook tankie. Live with it.
How’s that for literal?
Despite your overweening desire to paint anyone not in lockstep with your nearly-Donald view-askew of reality as FAR RIGHT WINGERS, Ratio, I DO enjoy discussions with you.
And that's why it would serve you tremendously to actually figure out WHO and WHAT the likes of me, Wars Russ, the O.G. himself Critical Thinker, and others ACTUALLY are, instead of failing at mind-reading and labelling. You might find us not so different, and perhaps, even potential friends or allies in the goal to make our world a better, more peaceful, more honest place.
And because I enjoy exchanges with you, Ratio …and because my patience is limited and my experience with racism during COVID is still raw and painful… I will warn you off using t***ie in my direction. It's not 2021 and "socially acceptable" racism is not a thing any more.
I'm happy to Block you on Disqus if you continue to hurl such racist slurs at me. Do so at others, it's to them how they take it. But do it again after I've both asked and warned you, and you won't have "won" or "chased me off" or any such petty victory. You'll have shown your level of intellectual discourse cannot, and does not, rise above the level of slurs and insults meant to win you, what, faint applause from the cheap seats ?
Be better than that, Ratio.
Stay on topic, address the topic instead of insulting the person.
I do value the actual points you actually make, and like addressing them. But this racist angle ? I don't need that horsesh*ttery in my life any more if you do it again – and believe me, I'll let it be known what you did and what you are.
So, back to it – you don't see a value in correcting misconceptions, misattributions, or other mistaken relics of language or common idioms, for the betterment of all ? Happy to let the Catherine the Great & horse story, razor blades in Halloween apples story, "easy as pie", George Washington & cherry tree story, get passed off as accurate and true ?
That’s a lot of words to say nothing. Block me if anything I say hurts your sensitive feelings. No harm, no foul.
It's hard to disagree with him. The only WMD's used so far have been by the US and have been on civilian populations in cities. I do have issues with calling the Russian government "compassionate and caring" however.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on the Russian use of WMDs.
https://apnews.com/article/…
I'm talking nukes (A bombs). And only ONE country has EVER used them.
You wrote WMDs. You might want to “split hairs” but WMDs include missiles too. When you die, I’m thinking you don’t really care if it’s conventional or nuclear
Only missiles carrying biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear payloads. But, you are correct that in some cases conventional weapons can be considered WMDs, such as the American fire bombing of Japanese cities killed many more than the two atom bombs (at least in the initial blasts).
Its ALL Kool aid
Calling it a "fatal miscalculation" is an insult to "miscalculation."
The US, I do believe, will do its best to proceed carefully and cautiously, for everyone’s sake, indeed, it is a necessity, for all of us.
The US handed Zelensky the matches to play with fire in the barn. Gaza is taking the attention away from that danger. We are now closer to WW III than we ever were. It is Biden's war, his goal is regime change in Moscow and a weak Russia, Gaza took the attention away from this danger, but it is still with us, bigger than ever.
We are on a ship of fools.
titantic of humanity
How you 'proceed carefully and cautiously',inside of a toxic spewing steamroller of violence/terrorism?
Once more Donna, that ship (proceed carefully) sailed long ago.
"What is the great American sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which dislikes to have its comfort disturbed….The most shameless greed, the most sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of events. This is the great American sin."
— Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic Monthly, October 1922
Crazy as bat shit stirred mixed with BS and fed to a dumbeddown humanity
US and other Western officials have shrugged off the warnings despite the major risk of escalation. “This is nothing new. It has … been the case for a long time that every time NATO allies are providing support to Ukraine, President Putin is trying to threaten us to not do that,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.
Despite Stoltenberg’s comments, the risk of Russian retaliation is very high since Putin has a history of escalating the war in Ukraine in direct response to attacks on Russian territory. For example, Russia did not begin major strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure until after the first bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022.
And there you have it Ukraine. Old Jens and the West are fine as long as the destruction is limited to Ukraine. I swear, someday the light bulb WILL come on.
Stoltenberg is an idiot.