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Cannonpointer » 04 Jun 2025, 6:04 pm » wrote: ↑

04 Jun 2025, 6:04 pm

I don't think so. I agree that his tentativeness is born of caution - like a guy who got knocked down and is gathering his wits and assessing his circumstances. He' sniffing the air, and he's focusing on blocking any future such strikes.

Where I disagree is that the strike weakened him against Coupkraine. Against NATO, in an all-out, absolutely. But the **** he hit was nukular. Putin hasn't relied on, and doesn't plan to rely on, nukular weapons with Coupkraine. If he does decide to go nukular,those bombers will be redundant.

At the onset you strongly stated this was a NATO strike. Not my call; your call.
I was going with the notion when I posted.
You say he's playing a complex game and I still think it's just the punch, gather himself, now look out.

"Redundant" is again making the assumption those bombers only carry nukes... they don't.
It has weakened the overall arsenal and bloodied the nose of "the bully". Note the quotation marks.
On the world stage, Putin has a huge ego as big as any other world leader. He REALLY didn't like that ****.

Sonsabitches will pay. You and I both agree on that much.

My speculation is he will try to put a decisive end to the Uke problem and the cat 'n' mouse stuff is done.
THAT could be the start of the Big Stuff (depends how he does it).