Russia issues bomb threat to four UK locations including London, Suffolk and Leicester | LBC

Obligatory "nuclear bomb hit Birmingham and caused £37 of damage" joke

I’m just happy to be included

I’m so tired of hearing news about those idiots threatening the whole world other EVERY DAY! And it doesn’t make me fatigued or apathetic, it just makes me annoyed and angry.

This would just be a flag.

Think you need to look up the definition of a false flag attack.

“Putin’s voice has been changed on the following news report”

or tea

Good to know that this is there, but let’s not forget that Trump has now become infamous for overriding and brazenly disregarding guard rails with virtually no pushback.

A marriage can be over, even if the divorce papers aren't signed yet.

does not matter: under article 5 countries have no obligation to send troops or weapons - they have to send what they think is needed. If the USA thinks clown cars are needed they can send them

Postman Pat, postman Pat, postman Pat and his black and white ~~cat~~ MISSILE

Queen's treat.

It was 4 threats. It should be an additional 4 billion sent to Ukraine... And not from the interest of seized funds this time. Pay it down with the principle... for the principle of it all.

Because shrieking threats gets you taken seriously?

I think this should motivate them to do more. After they send all frozen funds to Ukraine then Russia won't have anything else to threaten them about.

Hey at least Leicester got listed in the headline. Out of the four locations threatened, Reading was the only one that didn't make it.

It’s the drone manufacturer. They mention the drones in the tweet. All four locations manufacture drones.

Les Anglois, vous ne changerez donc jamais !

Medvedev is known for throwing veil threats. I remember him threating EU back in 2024, saying we’ll spend the christmas holidays in nuclear shelters lol

The UK isn't just the 5th largest economy in the world, it also possesses cutting edge military equipment. The UK's armed forces might not be as large as they could be but if someone were to hit the home islands I suspect that would change real quickly. Brits like to b**** and moan about how things are going in the UK but you put the country on war footing against a common enemy and history has shown how resilient we are. Russia can't even break Ukraine, you add a pissed off UK to the mix and what are they going to do then? And for all the historical rivalry between us, I would bank on the French being right there with us, NATO or not.

Every time I think the inability to park anywhere won’t be worth it but it’s always worth it.

I grew up in a tiny hamlet that happened to be next to an airforce base that hosted Thor IRBMs. they were long gone by they time I was born but I always wondered if the Russians had updated their targeting packages.

I respect your sacrifice

>>Taco & Paco >Nice. Found the poet. And he don't even know it.

It's also a position that didn't exist before; the deputy title was created just so Medvedev could feel a bit better about himself. He's still party chairman for United Russia too. Neither of which are very important positions though. The Russian government is a system of corruption and true power comes from the ability to dole out big gov't procurement contracts, to give good jobs to your allies, to give permits and such that friends can profit from etc. Medvedev doesn't really have any of that now. He was on the bench, hoping to be president again one day when Putin's done. When February 2022 rolled around he realized that his hopes of a comeback as president meant shedding his relatively-liberal image, so he immediately reinvented himself as a social-media attack dog against the West. Because, even if he's relatively powerless in Russia, he knows the ex-President title will get him attention for whatever he says in Western media.

To send Master Chief to finish the fight, obviously.

It's kinda like what's the point. Does Russia really think anyone buys that threat.

I would doubt that too. But Russia can't even deal with Ukraine "on its own" [air quotes because obviously Ukraine gets healthy donations to keep resisiting. On the other side of the coin, Russia gets also helped by several countries including extra troops to throw into the meatgrinder]. So take a educated guess what it means when the rest of NATO (minus USA) actually gets involved with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Sure, it comes down to Nuke-scare in the end, but NATO still has also some nukes without the US help.