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by kansface 56 days ago
Just because he hasn’t pulled the trigger doesn’t mean there isn’t an actual red line.
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einpoklum 56 days ago
"So what is the last resort? Piccadilly?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkUVIj3KWY

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Sabinus 56 days ago
The red line is an invasion of Moscow or a strike on Russian nuclear capabilities.

Everything else is just an order for preemptive suicide.

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nradov 56 days ago
Ukraine already executed a successful strike on Russian nuclear capabilities. In 2025 Operation “Spider’s Web” completely destroyed several irreplaceable nuclear-capable strategic bombers.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-ukraines-spider-web-operat...

There is no "red line".

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8note 56 days ago
that didn't cross the red line, and the US has a phone call to talk it over and that Russia's policy for using nukes hadnt been breached
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ceejayoz 55 days ago
Red lines have been crossed repeatedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukraini...

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Sabinus 55 days ago
The red line attack on Russia's nuclear capabilities has to present a credible and deliberate threat to Russia's nuclear strike capacity.

Operation spider web was attack on Russian airfields primarily to reduce capacity to bomb Ukraine.

You can't nuke a country for hitting some nuclear strike capabilities you're using to conventionally bomb them.

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