Calm down, they are now u-turning.

so bipartisan agreement that the wapo and rest is fake news media

Either way, this is incredibly unprofessional.

Romanian Defense Chief Quits After Controversial Ukraine Remarks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...kraine-remarks

Nothing is stopping Romania from offering an exclave to Russia and end the war

Bloomberg article available on yahoo https://news.yahoo.com/romanian-defe...092841007.html

Do I really have to simplify this for you?

The elephant in this room is the Russian failure to explain how using a dirty bomb would benefit Ukraine. There is no military or political benefit, in fact, completely the opposite. This is a story with no logical basis.

except for the most obvious one…..explode a dirty bomb, blame it on Russia and finally get western boots on the ground. It is their only chance really. Russia has to be occupied and defeated before it will surrender all lands including Crimea, much less pay reparations

and the guy you linked to was blaming the wapo for publishing the letter…..

In any case, the calls for negotiations are getting louder and louder. It has to start somewhere. You can only keep a beach ball submerged for a finite time

The fact we have this kind of pro-Russian trolling crap on this forum every day is shameful and a poor reflection on the moderation of posts here. It is a return to the kind of hateful poison-posting that got the forum shut down.

Russia is accusing Ukraine of maybe using a "dirty bomb". Ukraine denies that. So could Russia be trying to prepare the ground as an excuse to use an Atom bomb? Russia is fully capable of every dirty trick.

From where? Selective tweets or the “quality” journos at somewhere like the NY Post? Doesn’t seem to be to much appetite for cowing to Putin among the adults in the real world.

i am pro-ukraine but i am also pro-reality.

And negotiate on what? Russia has not offered anything. In fact, they have doubled down with the annexations. Ukraine is making progress on the ground. They are not willing to make concessions. They have even pulled their previous offer to go back to pre-24Feb lines. After the annexations, Russia can also not go back to pre 24Feb

So what negotiations could there be by the West? Unless you are suggesting to press Ukraine into accepting territorial losses in Donbas and South.

It is not their "only chance", they are currently doing extremely well against Russia.

The dirty bomb fiction is really a stupid idea, you really believe Ukraine would explode such on their own territory making a large area a noman's land plus killing and wounding many of their own people? How would any government survive this? A stupid black fantasy.

The picture used by MFA Russia in its twit about the dirty bomb is more than 10 years old and it belongs to ARAO, Slovenian organisation specialising in the management of radioactive waste. The picture was already abused for some fake news in the past.

The level of propaganda on this is really low, they didn't even care about obvious language differences on the big yellow warning signs. The only proof here is: anyone who is following official Russian narrative doesn't care about facts.

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Yes. The military underperformance is one thing, but what really surprised me was how bad RU propaganda was. After all the noise about interference in US politics etc. I was expecting some sophisticated stuff from Russia - but even basic things such as the counting of the votes in the referenda were badly messed up: Russian news reported on the voting and counting to legitimise the annexations, but filmed vote counters counting voting ballots without even looking at the votes on them and the voting papers themselves were often blank and missing the vote that was counted. Another cock-up was when IEA inspectors came to look at the nuclear plant and RU pointed out the shells that landed there and they claimed came from Ukrainian forces. Awkward mumbling when they asked why they landed pointing towards UA lines (as if fired from RU lines).

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You asked a theoretical question and I gave a theoretical answer. I personally think most likely a bomb would be detonated by Russia.

But to say the alternative is impossible is also going too far. I personally think they view lives as more expandable than in the west and if a few villagers (likely russian) die then I could imagine it.

Well, whether it's good or bad it depends a lot on the target audience - and the intended effect. I don't think "they" (if there is such a thing) are even trying to construct something that can be reasoned with, it's just throwing enough s**t around, some of it will stick somewhere with some people. It doesn't help that media is just echoing around the same crap just to fill in their empty page slots

And to be fair you see the same tactics in western politics, whether it is (mostly) on the far right or far left...

I guess Russia could, just not Putin.
This approach is a necessity in war, though of course the shades of grey are a sliding scale.

Apparently (see post #7447) Russia registered 50k dead soldiers before the end of August. Many more will have been maimed, wounded, or gone missing. UA won't have fared much better, if at all, plus many civilians were killed.

Whether in the west or east, that makes killing some of "them" to save a few or many of "us" a very attractive idea.