Putin's threats to the world.

Terrifying to even think about it......

Putin’s nuclear forces are always on alert. As I said to a friend recently, until we start conscripting 15 year old boys, it is “Steady the Buffs” here. I watched a video of Putin addressing a roomful of his hierarchy who were unsmilingly applauding every word. I would like to know what is really inside their heads and whether any of them will find a backbone before he really goes too far!

I have always been scared of this type of thing. A lot of it is men's egos. Why do they always have to threaten each other? Do none of them see any joy in life?

Very badly- as I am more aware than ever, that my ACS and GCs are not even in the same country.

But at least this big old house in the sticks could become a welcoming place to people who are suffering and need help.

Lets hope one of them gives him the plutonium tea.

I believe talks are being set up ?

Well, crying won't help in that circumstance. What is needed is forethought, planning and quick action.

Is Putin going to be a threat? I actually think not. He was expecting a quick march into Ukraine and to take it in a day, if not an afternoon. He is meeting a better trained and more committed army and volunteers than he expected.

he has discovered that the daynof the tank is over. Tanks can no longer roll into countries destroying all before them, Modern handheld, guided missiles, which we have supplied to the Ukrainians, just blow the tanks up as they appear. I think Putin forgot this in his senile psychosis.

I hope and pray that the ending of this is going to be other than Putin expected. He is already suggesting negotiations, currently in Belorus, but more likely in Turkey. That is a sure sign he knows he made a mistake.

It has been said that, like many long standing dictators as they decline into old age they lose their sense of reality. This certainly is what is happening to Putin. It is known that he now takes little if any notice of his council of ministers, never meets anyone outside a very tight circle and is paranoid about COVID.

I doubt many of his councillors agree with him, and neither do a growing proprtion of the Russian population.

I've stopped watching news. Only do the paper reviews late at night. No reason to scare myself to death over something which I've no control. Kind of working but I'm certainly not bubbling over with joy at the moment.

how is it affecting me it’s not.
I’m not glued to the news, there’s nothing I can do except send money to some charities set up.
He’s not going to drop anything to wipe us out.
MOnica explained everything else I wanted to say.

So awful when one person holds all the cards, particularly when associates say he is veering on the edge of madness, exacerbated no doubt by increasing global isolation.

Watched the Neflix,Munich, The Edge of War last night, timely in it's parallels, Neville Chamberlain's futile attempt to get the some sort of peace agreement from Hitler. One of the characters a young disaffected German was on the cusp of taking him, Hitler, out..........if only! Fiction it might have been but that could have changed the course of history.

I read the headlines once a day - it is as much as I can deal with.

I do not think we need to get absorbed in the running news bulletins - it will make us all very anxious about something we cannot influence at all. I do care deeply about what is happening, but do not feel the need to focus on it any more than keeping reasonably up to date.

I listen to the headlines once a day and that's all. Too much rolling news is not good and there is nothing we can do about it.
We all feel horrified by what is happening in the Ukraine and for the people involved.

lavendermine

I listen to the headlines once a day and that's all. Too much rolling news is not good and there is nothing we can do about it.
We all feel horrified by what is happening in the Ukraine and for the people involved.

You took the words right out of my mouth…

How is affecting me? Well I am glued to the news on all channels and i have shed tears over it all, the heroics of the Ukrainians, the united force of so many countries united against this invasion is just so utterly inspiring. Joe Biden offered to get the Ukrainian president out which came with the reply that he needed help not a ride, even Elon Musk is helping with satellite/s.

I'm glad I'm not the only who cannot cope with immersing myself in the news all day long. I care greatly and I have an awful fear that the inevitable could happen, but getting angry or crying all day won't help anyone.

I’m not immersing myself in rolling news, but keeping up to date with new developments. We can only pray that someone takes this megalomaniac out before more innocent lives are lost.

I am following this far too closely. I know I need to take a step back and turn off rolling news, but sometimes I find it more stressful not to know what's happening than to know the worst.

It's terrifying, and knowing there is nothing we can do makes it worse, I think.

My biggest fear is that unless a way is found in the next few days to enable Putin to withdraw from this catastrophic decision with his pride intact, he will start using nuclear missiles.

The only people who can stop him doing that are those immediately round him, I think and hope and pray that the ministers around him, whom he has been ignoring and not even making a semblance of listening to them, will decide that enough is enough and he will be arrested and deprived of his powers. I think his generals are also aware of the dangers of his behaviour.

MOnica I have spent the afternoon wishing my mum was still here as she was always so sensible, measured and calming. Then you posted exactly the sort of thing she would have said. Thank you.

MOnica
That’s exactly what I think. Putin is now wounded beast which makes him more dangerous than he’s ever been.
As much as I don’t want him to get off the hook easily, for everyone’s sake it’s the only thing to do.

Let’s hope someone in the Kremlin “sorts” Putin once and for all. Putin is an extremely dangerous little man.

On the news in lreland saw the Ukrainian men saying goodbye to their loved ones as they boarded a plane here to fly back to the Ukraine to fight. It was the saddest thing as they are safe here in lreland living for years in a peaceful place, yet ready to leave all that and go. Broke my heart to see them. So terrifying for them.

It’s the breathtaking courage of the Ukrainians that brings tears to my eyes. Watching a group of women making Molotov cocktails as calmly as if they were making decorations for a street party seemed unreal.

They have an inspirational leader in Zelensky but how much longer can the country hold out?

I feel saddened by the events and keep up with the news, but I don’t watch rolling news bulletins. I was lucky enough this weekend to see my niece and her family who we only saw once since Covid began, and that was because we were in the north for a funeral. Having the gift of a family visit ensured I was distracted somewhat. We discussed the situation but not all the time as we had other family news to discuss.