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What should our response be if Russia invades Ukraine?

kingofnerf said:
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British Defense Ministry Warns of Potential Naval Blockade in Black Sea - USNI News

The British Ministry of Defense warned Wednesday that Russia could be planning a naval blockade of Ukraine. The blockade would prevent ships from pulling into Ukraine and the Kremlin’s latest move in the Black Sea since Moscow withdrew from a U.N. brokered grain deal. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet...
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Ukraine has no navy. Do supporting countries attack the blockade? Is this where the escalation starts to ramp up?
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Those are international waters. We have every right to go there if we desire to as do other nations.
 
Blitzkrieg said:
Those are international waters. We have every right to go there if we desire to as do other nations.
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Yep - Russia escalated this with the canceling of the grain deal and then bombing the grain storage facilities in Odessa.

People need to stop blaming the west for escalating this war. This is all 100% on Russia and Putin.
 
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War is returning to Russia, Zelenskyy says after drone attacks

Moscow has accused Kyiv of carrying out a series of aerial assaults to compensate for a struggling counteroffensive on the battlefield.
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Possibly relevant as we seem to be heading towards a new Cold War with Russia.

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Bartlett Maritime Pitches New Plan to Repair U.S. Attack Submarines - USNI News

Bartlett Maritime submitted a news submarine overhaul proposal to the Navy that claims it will cut the time attack boats are out of service by 100 days. Bartlett, founded in 2019, plans to concentrate component repair at two new facilities in northeastern Ohio and buy a specialized foundry at...
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While the idea of building a submarine overhaul yard at Lorain has been shelved, the plan lays out an option for a fifth public yard at the Naval Weapons Station Goose Creek, S.C. That construction would be contingent on the “funding and oversight regimes are proven” for the component repair facilities, the company said.
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Man, I really wish they would re-open the Charleston Naval Base as well. Lots of great middle-class civilian jobs if that were to happen.
 
Today is the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the second A-bomb against at Nagasaki.

Possibly relevant today as well.
 
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