Off Topic WW3 How Close?

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Still time for someone to request a UN Peacekeeping force be deployed - do you think Turkey could be persuaded? Or maybe China?
Problem with UN peacekeeping forces is from memory they are only allowed to fire if they themselves are fired upon.

Russians would just drive straight through them without firing a weapon
 
Totally agree with that. Sanctions will never deter Russia. The west should strike first with force and put Putin back in his box.

What does this strike look like, in your opinion? What are the targets? Any examples of the west striking a nuclear power with force and it having the desired effect?
 
If this all gets out of hand and things turn nuclear, (god forbid) but I wonder how prepared we’d be and whether society as we know it, would come out of the other side.
I don’t think any sane leader or govt would go nuclear. (Here’s hoping) mind you Vlad looks crazy.
 
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Call me old fashioned, but, given the apparent seriousness of the situation, the use of emojis and hashtags by government officials, seems a tad inappropriate!
 

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Forte12 is a US surveillance plane at 51000 feet, the circled one is a Chinese Air Force airlifter
 
Problem with UN peacekeeping forces is from memory they are only allowed to fire if they themselves are fired upon.

Russians would just drive straight through them without firing a weapon
Depends upon their mandate, but critically Russia and Ukraine would have to agree to the Peacekeepers. If Russia did then move through the Peacekeepers then there could be a casus belli declared. Then a UN flagged international force (I guess mostly from the USA) could be tasked with evicting them.

Also major international sanctions would applied to Russia - like a total ban on trading with them.
 
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Depends upon their mandate, but critically Russia and Ukraine would have to agree to the Peacekeepers. If Russia did then move through the Peacekeepers then there could be a casus belli declared. Then a UN flagged international force (I guess mostly from the USA) could be tasked with evicting them.

Also major international sanctions would applied to Russia - like a total ban on trading with them.
And that's the difficult part.
 
Not good. Full, military coordinated attack has started across Ukraine.
 
Bit late now. It has begun!

2 weeks and there will be a new government installed in Ukraine. They will put up minimal resistance. Will Putin stop there though? The west is a threat to Russia so he may just decide to keep the lads rolling west see how far they can get.

Our government needs to do something NATO needs to start deploying in Eastern Europe now, not in a bit. This will be a rapid advance for Russia and we need to prepare for that.
 
you talk about UN Peacekeepers, read a book called Pure Massacre by Kevin O'Halloran, I served with the guy in 1 RAR (Australia), he was a "peacekeeper" in Rwanda - peacekeepers can do SFA
My old man was in UN peacekeeping forces a few times in a few places so i know through his experiences just how pointless it can be.
 
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