I am quite curious about Russia and what our reaction is/would be to a serious Russian threat.BetScalper wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:43 pmThe EU has bigger problems to worry about.
If Russia starts encroaching on its eastern boarders then they will stand defenceless.
It’s very clear that unlike WW2, the USA will not get involved and Putin knows this.
If it wasn’t for the UK pleading with the Americans for help 70 years ago then most of Europe would have been destroyed and conquered.
France should know this more than most but yet the current leader seems he’ll bent on telling the UK to fuck off with no deal.
He and others should be careful what they wish for as France couldn’t fight its way out of a wet paper bag back in the late 1930s and I doubt they will ever again.
if I remember correctly (correctly being the operative word), when the soviet union broke up, there were treaties with the various new states with Russia about handing over the nuclear weapons that these newly independent states now found themselves in possession of( which then they legally owned and were not Russian weapons anymore) back over to Russia, as they were the only power that had or could expect to have the means to maintain them and dispose of them etc, and the Russians were not very keen on the west getting hold of them.
Ukraine was one of those states that now found themselves with a nuclear missile force and duly gave them back to the Russians under a treaty because assurances were given by the uk (and the usa ) against threats and the use of force against their terrority by Russia, and their political independence.
we capitulated on that agreement with invasion of crimea, and appear to be impotent in the face of blatant Russian aggression on our own soil.
I don't thinks its just france that will not be able to do much or Poland or whoever, seems we cant and have not done anything about Russia, what could we do? we have shown we cant do anything military at all only diplomatic sanctions and the like.