Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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S.Peelman said:

So yesterday on some TV programme here they showed how our favorite Russian propaganda TV host that likes to threaten to throw nukes at everything apparently had a guest that said he “learned at military academy that most petrochemical industry in Europe is clustered in the port of Rotterdam”. So obviously they would just toss a nuke at it and boom Europe is defeated. They even mention, lost on the irony I suppose, that it would take just “one day” and if that doesn’t work they should send troops here by sea (somehow) and it “doesn’t matter if they are NATO”.

Now even though I live right next to the port of Rotterdam, I’m not going to lose any sleep over this, because I in turn learned that apparently they haven’t discovered Google Maps yet. That industry being there wasn’t exactly a secret you would need to go to military academy for after all.

And oh there was also a map shown with a missile trajectory drawn towards London, Berlin and Paris for good measure. So yeah, my European friends here on VGC, please proceed to shake in your boots.

Rotterdam has been by far the largest oil harbour in Europe since the 60's (and the largest harbour period from the 60's until Shanghai overtook it 45 years later, and is still the largest outside of Asia), so this information should fall under common knowledge. This should have been as newsworthy as a bag of rice falling over in China.

Sending troops there from Russia, wtf? Do they think they're playing Command & Conquer or what? There's no way that a troop ship would make it until there from Russia, and even if they were to get there, there's no way to supply the troops, so this would be at worst a minor nuisance before the last Russian troops being dealt with.

Nuking Paris? Even if the US would do nothing, France has it's own nukes, and they WILL fire them at Russia if they tried that stunt