Giving Kiev new military capabilities poses the risk of unintended escalation, the former Russian president said
Supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets poses a risk of triggering a nuclear conflict, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.
NATO member states are currently training Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16s ahead of the expected transfer of the aircraft. Kiev has been asking for the Western fighter jets for months, saying they were needed to combat Russian air superiority.
”An accidental, unintentional outbreak of a nuclear conflict is not something to be discarded, which is why all those machinations around Ukraine are dangerous,” Medvedev said in an extensive interview with Russian journalists, as quoted by TASS on Thursday.
The deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council cited the US-designed aircraft as a possible trigger, noting that Kiev wants them despite having no ground infrastructure to operate them.
”So if one of those planes takes off from a NATO nation [on a Ukrainian mission] – what would that be? An attack on Russia. I shall not describe what could happen next,” he said. “Such a development may not be even sanctioned by the NATO leadership and the US.”
Russian officials previously warned that delivering F-16s to Ukraine would be highly problematic, considering that the jets can deploy nuclear gravity bombs.
Medvedev said Russia’s standoff with the US and its allies was not at a stage that would force people to hide in a nuclear shelter, but described it as worse than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The doomsday clock “is ticking” and has “sped up considerably,” he added.
The doomsday clock – a representation of the likelihood of a global catastrophe maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – is currently 90 seconds to midnight, having advanced 10 seconds last year.
The clock was first launched in 1947, when it was set at 23:53. Its most optimistic time was in the 1990s, when it was 17 minutes to midnight. Its current time is the closest it has ever been to midnight or ‘doomsday.’
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I keep hearing about nuclear war.
Come on fuckers!
Bring it!
Awwww!
What’s amatter?
The problem with nukes….
Is that they are scary.
The other problem with nukes?
They never acheived anything other than normal, slow fission decay.
No fast fission.
No fast fission?
No big baddaboom.
No big badaboom?
No nukes.
Just a lot of films of plutonium fuel/air bombs with the plutonium cloud ignited by lightning triggered by conducter trailing rockets launched from other airplanes.
They needed 1.21 jigawatts to fission the plutonium.
They successfully triggered two of these fuel air designs under the pumpkin bomb program during the firebombing of Japan. Sixty or seventy other cities were bombed with these pumkin fuel air bombs, but were not effectively ignited.
After igniting two successfully, they claimed it was nuclear fission instead of fuel air, then they paraded napalm survivirs around as atomic weapons burns.
Nukes?
Let’s see one blow up a city.
What?
Nothing but two uses?
Bullllllshittttt!
Shut up you idiot.
Everyone knows nukes are real.
There are photos and films.
Those can not be faked.
Neither can the small mushroom clouds at NPG.
None of the atomic weapons evidence could have been faked.
So knock it you off anti-science schmuck.
Amelika might not have working nukes but I bet Russia, Russia, Russia does.
FAFO is what is coming down the road.
Pootin, Medvedev and Gozalo Lira have been warning U.S. what would happen, DC is a terlet anyway, won’t miss it.
Always a Nuke-Denier in every crowd huh?
What else do you deny? The Triune Godhead?
That’s an “E Ticket” ride straight to heck dude!
I am praying for you!
Don’t worry, the UFO’s will shoot them down before they land.
I think nukes are rendered inert by climate change.
Reminds me of when the “covid” got going and every gravel lot and grandpa with an old RV was sitting on a gold mine of pre-inflation inflation of an asset normally subject to the hungry hippo of depreciation.
Or how the entire War on Covid was hinging on the !VENTILATORS! and some legislation and other super important government stuff happened enabling private corps to make scores of them even as the ones already deployed outnumbered the requisite trained technicians and often actual patients who needed them, as well as the official CDC protocol that had dancing nurses killing people with ventilators to create moar demand for ventilators.
And by the time the war production act had a million ventilators parachuting into Manhattan, the need for them was buried beneath the death jab, just as those millions of ventilators would be buried in the landfill beneath tonnes of diapers from invader babies subsidized by the HHS, still in their shrinkwrap from the war factory.
Looks like Lockheed Martin has some excellent BizDev cred in the State Dept war machine. Now they can dust off their aging inventory of F-16s and resell them to a “country” that has neither the runways, hangars, parts or the supply production and infrastructure to procure; technicians and machinists, or flight operations personnel to keep them flying.
Or maybe all their pilots are going to that flight school in florida that for a rolled up wad of jacksons will skip the whole “how to land” phase.
Perhaps they will be piloted by the Black women chosen for equity by the Pentagon and Airlines? They’re going down in a smoking heap regardless. Maybe Air Farce Reserve hero Lt. Col.
Adam Kinzinger will put his ass where his mouth was and offer to pilot one?
Supposedly F16’s require virtually spotless, virtually flawless runways to take off. The kind that Russia’s missiles will preclude Ukraine from having within their territory. So they would have to take off from Poland or Romania.
You might be thinking f-35s or something.
“Supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets . . .”
. . . is one way to scrap them and force F-35 sales, want them or not.
All The old models must go!
This is our once a year fail…cough I mean sale!
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You make a pausible point kfg.
“Crash For Clunkers…part two”
Plausible
Spill chick too the risk you!
Oh, thank God! I can press play on my life again.
Fuck yeah!
THERE WILL NEVER BE A NUCLEAR WAR, BECAUSE THE TRUE “GOD’S” WILL NEVER “ALLOW’ IT TO HAPPEN, NOR WILL “MOTHER EARTH”!
The gods ain’t got a true nuke.
boy who cried wolf
Boy who cried nuke
The genocide continues unabated….
You can’t fool me.
Those people are trying out for a crazy Ukrainian TV talent show.
The rest of the clip is missing.
Pretty sure there is a “play the piano with your privates” competition in there..along with some “major” graphic fudge play.
I hate the people sending them, but I also hate the people who have been cheering their deaths.
It’s the same picture.
Not just them, I mean like half the commentors here.
Awful. We haven’t seen the end of it yet. There are graves of German boys in the woods near my home town aged 14 and 15.
I have an elderly German immigrant friend from my family’s ancestral town. They press ganged him and his entire class when he was 15. They sent them to Denmark and issued them captured French Lebel rifles. “French rifles: never fired, dropped once.” An oldie but a goody.
The Ukies won’t wait until they’re 18. Try 16. 17 tops.
Funny how they instinctively started giving Sieg Heil salutes until they realized maybe they shouldn’t. I thought I heard them sing something about “Bandera”. I don’t necessarily have a problem if someone wants to be a Nazi, but don’t deny that you are one. There are plenty of neo-Nazis in the Ukraine, western protestations to the contrary.
The Bellamy Salute
The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute created by James B. Upham as the gesture that was to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance, whose text had been written by Francis Bellamy. It was also known as the “flag salute” during the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance. Bellamy promoted the salute and it came to be associated with his name. Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892.
The “Nazi Salute”? Is 100% Pure American.
THESE ARE THE “REAL NATIVE AMERICANS” FOLKS!!!..AND THEY DON’T LOOK LIKE THE “MIGRANT EUROPEANS”…DO THEY?
It must really piss them off knowing we are calling their bluff.
I say nuke something.
They won’t because they have nowhere on earth they can fake it.
Too many satellites with cameras.
Which is the true reason testing went “underground”
Because everyone would be able to see the actual event BEFORE it was edited at Lookout Mountain.
And realize they were lied to.
See?
Simple.
You believe in satellites? The Flat Earthers think they’re just weather balloons.
If you sail off the edge of a flat earther the fall might be as high as 6 feet or so.
Send the flat earthers up north to practice being Poles.
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Is that their story? I’ve been trying to ask occasionally and either no one responds or ‘what satellites?’
Gee, I wonder why our government is so insistent on the utter and complete destruction of Ukraine? The antisemites claim it’s the Khazarians(sp) Chabadists and Schneerson’s declamations and the mumblefuck normies claim it’s for ‘muh democracy’ and the broadly spoken queers claim it’s for the poor trannies that really don’t get it at all… but stink right, so deserve… something… and the illegals that just want to eat your food, rape your women and kids, and live in your house while you go off to work to support them.
Vote democrat for more of this. Vote republican for… more of this, but with promises of less of this, just no results on those promises.
Sooo….???
Chabad can come and go freely to their events regardless of which side of the line between Ukraine and Russia they are on. Only a few of the oligarchs might actually care who controls the territory.
Chaim!
Support whoever Steve Bannon endorses to run against your local Dem commie or RINO, especially in primaries. America First/MAGA is not going to sell us out. After a few years MAGA may revert to the mean like every party in history but for a few years they can set things right and keep us on course. If not it’s “the continuation of politics by other means.”
Lets give them all to Ukraine. It won’t change the outcome of that war. It will mean less of them to use against all of us “domestic terrorists”.
Upvoted with a chuckle, but the downside is after Z lawn darts those birds into Rus neighborhoods, Moscow sends us the bill via Borei-class, stealth submarine.
I guess DVer is a Typhoon-class fan :
Expensive to fix, noisy reactor, smells of borsch and aging plutonium, ugly Soviet decor.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-leads-democratic-delegation-ukraine-standoff-military-aid-rcna140040
These senators are over there right now. Commemorating 2 years of needless, fruitless slaughter, since peace was on the table 2 years ago.
Will these Americans get sent to the Ukrainian front line?
Will they get the Gonzalo Lira experience?
the deluded, evil ignoramuses think they will survive, so there is no real limit to what they will inflict on others directly and we, the people, indirectly.
“unintended escalation”
As if.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aJYsDB5NVSI/WbdlLGs5UoI/AAAAAAAAOJU/BvDpsuW5nvIXYR0Ybxm-th7Vx59lfYvqgCLcBGAs/s1600/Trinity_t
Why are we not packing all the immis onto ships and sending them to Ukraine?
I do not think we will survive to reach May of 2024. Enjoy your last weeks of life, and thank God for all that has been given in good faith this far.
I feel like I have made peace with myself, and I am no longer afraid of the possible outcomes.
only 2 months left?
screw this ant shit, it’s hookers and blow, grasshopper time!