Public sentiment largely oscillates between strong support for providing long-range missiles to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression and significant concerns about escalating risks, including potential nuclear retaliation. Many commenters express frustration towards political leaders and skepticism about the effectiveness of military aid, while also criticizing Russian threats as empty. The overall tone reflects both a call for decisive military action against Russia and deep-seated fears concerning the geopolitical implications.

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Russia can use Iranian missiles and drones, Chinese drone parts and weapons manufacturing capabilities, and North Korean and internationally kidnapped troops and artillery, but anytime Ukraine receives aid, it is an escalation against Russia and crosses a red line. 

“It’s okay for us to break international rules of war, but you cannot even defend yourself unless you want to risk WW3” is essentially a threat to the entire globe, all because one man and his gangster entourage of a government cannot accept defeat. 

Get fucked Putin.

guitarmaster4

Russia waves its arms and makes a lot of empty warnings.

Ignore and carry on with your day.

MrWonderfulPoop

They said the same thing about Storm Shadow.

They said the same thing about ATACMS

They said the same thing about F16’s

Their words mean very little at this point.

chrisni66

The_dubTn

Throw it on the pile of other warnings. Don't you dare give them western tanks! Don't you dare given them western munitions! Don't you dare allow them to strike within our border! Don't you dare let them long range attack! Don't you dare give them western planes!

STFU and go home you invading war crime committing assholes.

Adavanter_MKI

Russia is going to go overboard regardless, so it's probably a good idea to do some damage sooner than later.

EkruGold

If Russian can not even take Ukraine wtf are they going to do to the US...

Orposer

Escalate with what? More soldiers for the meat grinder? Don’t threaten us with a good time.

punkasstubabitch

Jinm409

Meanwhile Russia has been literally attacking Ukrainian cities with North korean balistics missiles.

bond0815

Russia warns it will shid and fard in it's pants if tomahawks are sent, also a little peepee will come out

Basically how I see these continuous headlines. Every day I wonder if my country is already at war and have to read through these shitty warnings of theirs.

maginster

sillyquestionsdude

Why the fuck does Russia get to escalate and not Ukraine? There's literally two fucking nations armies plus missiles from Iran and fuck knows what else?

Fuck off Russia.

Stamperdoodle1

Haluxe

Don't tell Russia, than deny like they would

Syke_qc

LostInUranus

wi_2

Humble-Heart-5302

Will they deploy the nuclear torpedo ? Or the endless flying super drone ?  I hope they dont release the robot  with a man inside  war machine !

djangovsjango

Yeah.  Ukraine is going to escalate the Tomahawks right into the Kremlin.

DarkIllusionsMasks

Yeah, whatever, like when they escalated from peace to start a war in the Donbas in 2008, then invaded Ukraine (Crimea) again in 2014, and then invaded the whole of Ukraine in 2022, and when they fire an ever larger number of drones and missiles at civilian targets, an when they continue to send ever more soldiers (well over 500000) into Ukraine to try and kill Ukrainians as part of a war that they alone started for no JUSTIFIABLE reason.

Kind-Objective9513

They said the same about the Storm Shadow and the Leos...

ClearlyNotMeAtAll

Humble_Ad9815

Lavrov literally just said they would not make a difference anyways.

DFLOYD70

I thought Russians were supposed to be so tough? Bring it on, ya prick. I'm tried of waiting for WWIII, can we just get this over with, already? China will NOT back you if you go to war with us, because they need us to buy their shit... their economy would implode without us. So, it's your 40 year old piece of shit weapons vs. the rest of the world? Get fucked.

On the off chance we're all irradiated? Oh well. So will you. I am no fan of war, but I am also fed up with the bluster. Enough.

nurdle

Oh we know there will be an escalation. Russia keeps escalating wether or not we respond in kind

it_diedinhermouth

Ok then, we send them to a proxy who passes it off to Ukraine

WentworthMillersBO

That’s the real tragedy. Trump could end the war in Gaza and Ukraine with a call and get the Nobel prize he wants.

No one is picking a real fight with Trump as he is pathologically compelled to get the last word.

John_Williams_1977

Right. Because so far Russia hasn't really been trying. Those were not its "A" donkeys.

whentheworldquiets

Russia \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (Says Warns Threatens) they want to punch yet not be hit themselves

Zealot_Alec

Escalating form sponsoring state terrorism, war crimes and an expansionist agenda. Placing bombs in civilian airline luggage, shooting passenger planes down? Stealing children? Cutting communication cable  and other sabotage? ruSSia is a land of misery led by a venal psychopath.

Orangesteel

Escalate? They can't even take villages in Ukraine without 100,000 of their untrained conscripts getting butchered.

Russia is finished.

veryvery907

Toruviel_

Russia has “warned of escalation risk” every day for going on 4 years. Why even bother posting this shit anymore? Everyone knows it’s spineless saber rattling and they haven’t got the balls to back up a single threat

M3RC3N4RY89

Only escalation risk is them losing the war they are currently losing

Unfair_Commercial

Russia has been escalating ever since they started the war. And now they are concerned?

klaagmeaan

Let’s fucking go then you Russian pussies

WorldlinessNo7154

Not like they are de-escalating anything....

prospekt403

Oh no, they might invade a sovereign country, interfere with other country’s elections, start a cyber war, cut undersea internet cables, and use drones to shut down major airports!

We should definitely stand by and watch while ensuring they face no consequences for their actions!

poweredbyearlgray

lol they can’t even accomplish what they set out to do in Ukraine. The fuck do they think they could do against the US military?

JimmyTheJimJimson

burgonies

The bad guy doesn’t get to tell you how to fight the war the bad guy started

tom21g

Trump and European countries need to stand up to Putin. If there's escalation from Putin surely Nato will nip it in the bud.

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Free-Appearance-5131

We all know if Russia got into a pissing match with NATO, they would be all but wrecked within days.  This supposed superpower can't even take on Ukraine properly never mind the full might of the west.

BeeKayDubya

Avg_DadBod69

DoomOne

Escalation risk?  Russia is already flying bombers over Alaska.  How much more escalated can you get?

Wolfman01a

Anything and everything is an escalation when you’re trying to fight a one-sided war and call your opponent a cheater for meeting you in the mud.

This is the paper tiger flashing its worn down fangs and claws. It’s tired and old.

Send a message to Moscow from Ukraine and do it fast before Dementia Donnie remembers what day of the week it is and that his puppet master has total control over Agent Krasnov.

Release the full and un-redacted Epstein Files.

jeshap01

AnybodySeeMyKeys

Putin could end his war of aggression by fiat in one day.

payle_knite

Fuck russia lol - We don't care about escalation.

KanedaSyndrome

Economy_Ask4987

Bout three years past due to start calling this assholes bluffs 

ReditModsSuk

Mindless_Season_194

The US doesn't have to say anything.  Just send the weapons.

That-Makes-Sense

Russia just threatened the entire world with nuclear annihilation?

 is at that point in the week again already?

Man, this one’s going by quick

meteorprime

Russia should have thought about that sooner.

megaplex66

Merlins_Owl

I’m not sure there’s an escalation point past stealing a country’s children.

Brkthom

I think INVADING UKRAINE raises the risk of conflict buuuut...

Jubjars

Well good news then - the USA is not sending them to Ukraine.  They’re sending them to Russia. Ukraine is just the distribution center.

double-xor

"Country that escalates war warns against escalating war"

TodlicheLektion

Of course keep in mind trump hasn’t provided them yet. He is also lots of bluster but has yet to do ANYTHING that might hurt his bff Putin.

2016lund

Just like when Ukraine was sent; Javelins, AT4s, small arms munition and rifles, Artillery systems, HMMWVs, MRAPS, Senator MRAPS, HIMARS, Patriots, NASAMS, Live Satellite imagery, StarLink, ACSVs, Abrams, Leopards, Challenger II, M103 APCs, Stryker APCs, M113s, various Mi helicopters, IRIS-T, SCALPS, StormShadows, Patriot Missile systems, various loitering drone systems, attack drones, counter drone systems, advanced tactical training of forces, F-16s, Grippens, Mirage-2000s, Bangvagn 206s, T-72 tanks, Excalibur precision rounds… I mean the list just goes on and on for what Russia says will escalate the war to them… 

Babylon4All

How many Warnings Per Week (WPW) are we at now?

foul_ol_ron

Blueridge-Badger

"youre escalating, he's escalating, shes escalating? IM ESCALATING. are there any more escalations i should know about?"

Vihurah

Fuuuck it, let it happen. No more appeasing fascists.

chris14020

The leadership of Russia can go collectively fuck itself. 🖕

Слава Україні! 🗽🇺🇦

suddenvalleyfarms

Oh, like how they threatened the exact same thing over the F-16s and when the planes did go, Russia went and...

\*checks notes\*

…did absolutely nothing they weren't already doing which was continue to fail to conquer a country a fraction of the size of their own?

Luster-Purge

Well, here’s the solution Russia get out of the Ukraine

See how easy that is

Oxjrnine

Says the country that's already using thermobarics and missiles against Ukraine. Hypocrite as always, Ruzzia.

John_Mark_Corpuz_2

Oh, shut up

There's a new red line every time Ukraine receives new equipment

trivialslope

Are they threatening to open a second failed  front

Informal_Process2238

This is an effective negotiation strategy. 

USA asks “would you care to negotiate now?  … or should we expedite and proceed with shipment, rapid deployment, and Kremlin targeting/firing training?”

Alternative_Owl5302

Alright Russia, I'll bite. Escalate to WHAT exactly? War? Y'all are getting curb stomped by a country that you constantly infer has an inferior military. NATO countries in the region are itching to get some payback for a few generations of your aggression.  So what is this going to escalate to?  You wanna bring in the big guns? NATO is kicking your a$$ and they haven't even shown up yet.  Get f@$ked, Putler!

WaffleHouseGladiator

They can saber rattle all they want. They know they can't fight NATO. So they'll just sit there and complain while we fight the war proxy-style.

I don't have faith in a lot of things about America these days. But I have faith in our ability to fuck shit up. Like Kremlins and stuff.

NameLips

Sound like please don’t do to us what we have been doing to you.

AloneChapter

Remember when turkey smoked one of their jets then they retaliated by nuking Turkey? Me either.

Ok_Raccoon_2711

Oh no, not another escalation warning from Russia. Ukraine just needs to keep hitting their oil and Russia will fall. They are already struggling to provide gas for their own citizens, it's only a matter of time.

AmeriToast

PowderPills

What can Tomahawks target that is currently outside of Ukraine's reach?

flatline000

starkraver

Russia already warned about nuclear threats multiple times. Russian threat is just paper tiger.

gym_fun

Trump has not decided one way or the other, according to the article.  I wonder what were the considerations in announcing that we "might" do this.

Wonderful-Process792

Hopefully this keeps up but the pattern of:

1) The West does something

2) Russia says something

Is a pattern we're now getting familiar with. I would like there to be a cost in terms of Russia's alliances, too, if China can see a cost for associating with Russia (seems highly unlikely).

Superfluous999

What, they gonna push their tank husks to Kiev?

PathologicalRedditor

Yes, there will be escaltion but it will be against Russia.  :P

macross1984

Tell him to suck his sister’s dick and send Ukraine the missiles.

parrothead2581

Maybe try sending them without first announcing it to the world and your enemy?

JakeEaton

If you dare to fight back, YOU ARE escalating.

How much more can it escalate? They aren't going to do nukes.

blackcain

garack666

Slight-Ad-6553

I thought that the Ukraine war had already been ended by Trump as part of the 6 wars he has ended with both hands tied behind his back and that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for that. Am I wrong?

Hylarion-Lefuneste

We need to send them [Rapid Dragon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltud5zvBYg0).

maybeinoregon

aStonedDeer

Even if Russia somehow can win this war in the end 

They still lost 

There is no way it will be anything other as an symbolic victory with no real value in the end, if they even manage that 

The economy is shot, the demographic is shot with the loss of life and the areas captured need significant investment to be useful again and they fail at that front too 

Any resemblance of being an strong army is also wiped away with the Russian army being exposed as air tiger, it's not even paper 

Also with all the hate created there will be resistance movements for a very long time too 

so the win condition is super Afghanistan/Vietnam for Russia, I doubt that is very nice to have 

I don't see how tomahawks that need an retrofitted ground launch vehicle will be useful after all it takes away vehicle frames from other important duties for an additional cruise missile with not that great utility right now 

Sure they come in numbers but that's also projected to be true for their domestic weapons

RainbowBier

Yeah, no shit… because those tomahawks are going to be escalated right at red square

ItsPumpkinninny

At this point, its a empty threat, just send whatever they already proven they will raise the threat if they get the same weapons. They're not going to stop and they just need their butt wrak a bit

Mradr

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