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"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

dmitryopines.substack.com‘Poking the Bear’: From Putin to TommoRejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

Paddy Magill

@padraigpostal.bsky.social

In a conventional conflict the chances of Russian victory over Europe is slight, it's normally when the word 'missile' or 'nuclear' gets mentioned, or are we giving that up in the new 'don't provoke' them doctrine, not so much MAD as 'we give up'?

Dmitry Grozoubinski

@explaintrade.com

bsky.app/profile/expl... My thoughts exactly.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

"Oh, but they have nuclear weapons!" First, so do you. Second, if that's your approach than what does it matter what state the UK military is in? Third, does having nukes entitle them to run UK foreign policy now? Where does it end?

26/10/26, 10:14 am0 reposts3 likes

Paddy Magill

@padraigpostal.bsky.social

Reminds me of the debate in '50's both here and US, 'why do we need a conventional military anyway when we've got the bomb?', 'proportionate response' was the given reason.