Well. Happy to say I was wrong - I didn’t think he’d be stupid enough, but I also wonder how much Biden escalating this over the past 2 weeks may have been a miscalculation also

Seriously?
If this is the start of WWIII, there will be no future generations any more.

"I don't know with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones" Einstein.

Really? So it’s all Biden’s fault? Grasping at straws there I suspect.

It could lead to that, put it this way, we are closer than anytime in the last 50 years. He is playing a decidedly dodgy game and hoping the west won't respond.

Worth reading. Not sure about her final forecast though, I think Putin is already beyond that point.

I must wonder, what is an N-reg Piper Malibu doing in Kiev currently? An unlikely sight on this day and age.

I see the Russian AN124 is in at EGNX, business as usual,

Looking at the numbers regarding Air Superiority and knowing its Importance nowadays, it doesn't look good.
Boots on the ground are not worth much if the other side owns the sky.
Only realistic chance is Guerilla tactics. Meat grinder. Give them thousands of sniper rifles with NVD. Give them Stingers. Give them Javelins. Provide them with IED. The Russian public will get tired of hundreds of their children coming back in an aluminuum box daily relatively quickly.

The AN124 is a bit different from Piper Malibu, I thought the N-reg malibu is on the unusual side of the big pond but maybe it is just business as usual.

the Russian public does not have a say, after years of dictatorship. Now, this is Germany, 1939. And yes, we now how Hitler ended, but we also know what happened to the world before that.

and where is Vitek, when we need his input to know the real truth? Trolling some other website from his troll factory in Sankt Peterburg ?

International Law is not respected, treaties are not respected, statements and promises are not respected, even from the top.
What is left? Facts. We seem to need robust containment as roll back means war.

Fine, I'll bite.
I am neither of those things you said.
So far I have counted 5 instances of western inteligence saying that invasion is imminent! So can you really blame me for quering when someone screams "Wolf!"?
I never said that Putin is right and that invasion will never happen. Only thing that I did try is to give alternate point of view that Putin and Russia are doing what both USSR and USA/NATO have done before.
Now, if you believe that just beacuse it's USA/NATO doing those things OK, because your and their methabolism products don't stink, not my problem.

Why not just grab them by the nuts and seize every property in Knightsbridge and Belgravia? Shut down exports of every luxury vehicle to Russia, and every luxury consumable, diamonds, high end clothing, the lot. That’d have em squealing quick smart. Every Svetlana would be furious. Not a shot fired.

That would probably indeed hit hard.
The sad thing is this ain't gone'a happen. Only as last resort after all-out nuclear war. Cause it would hurt the industry.

It will get more expensive for us to not react.

No, I don't think his stance is anywhere near that solid.
Again: In this case not only Putin would end. Mankind would end.

Germany has stopped the Nord Stream II pipeline permit.

Not true, USA which are part of NATO have never invaded a Country and forced them to join NATO, The Putin's Russia under the guise of the Soviet Bloc / USSR did exactly that..