To be honest having watched this over decades, Russia repeatedly warned the West about its actions. Washington kept pushing NATO towards Russian borders. Russia said enough. Washington placed a missile defence system that could be engineered to fire an ICBM to reach Moscow in four minutes. Russia said enough. Washington was behind the civil unrest that resulted in them putting a puppet in charge of Ukraine and Russian people in the East of Ukraine under sustained attack. Russia essentially had enough and reacted or it would have no buffer between the Western nations and itself so it invaded. And lets be honest, Russia are not the ones with the history of attacking countries with military might. Of course Russian establishment are not all good and great, but the provocation stretches way back and is rooted in Washington.
I didnt actually worry too much about this until
now. Russia is not in a good way domestically and its losing ground in its war. Now when you start to add that the only reason Ukraine didnt collapse by now was because it was being supported militarily and logistically and financially by the West, thats going to get Russias back up. Yet what has changed is Ukraine attacking Russia deep within its territory.
This changes things significantly.
Russias civil defence program was once amazing to be honest, but I have no idea the state of it now but what I do know is Russia has a doctrine regarding defence that includes the use of tactical nuclear weapons when attacked. Its now being attacked.
Its being attacked by British weapons possibly with support of British logistics and targeting systems. This puts a legitimate crosshair on us, as far as Russia is concerned.
So for the first time in my life yeah I would say its gone from 95% sure nothing will
happen, to 50/50. There are many ways it can attack but we are in poor shape to weather any attack and escalation can be rapid.
We have no business in Ukraine at all. Sanction by all means and trade suspension but the supplying of the level if military hardware that we have done to now attack Russia deep within territory that goes way beyond defensive measures. With Russia starting to be on the backfoot. This isnt looking good, especially when we look at the global picture economically, almost every country hates its government right now and things aren't strong. Global War would be horrific but a global war, resets and we are talking on all sides about absolute psychopaths, which are the ones that push that buttons. They see the rest of us as an expendable resource.
There isnt much we can do unfortunately, there is nowhere to go and unless you have a deep bunker thats self sufficient for several years and well out of sight and there is no knowledge to anyone else but you that it exists, there is zero ability to escape what could happen.
Im hoping, as we all are, nothing will happen - but yes this development is concerning to say the least. We cant do anything now. Just occupy yourselves and enjoy life and carry on and what will be, will be. I just find it hard to understand why anyone would be for our military involvement in this conflict, it has zero to do with us.