Russia at Defcon 2

Defcon 2. Putin has ordered Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on alert in response to Western sanctions and rising tensions over Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Site is being overloaded, don't know if it's a lot of people going to it or getting hacked. https://t.co/kJcwszrihl>— Defcon Level Warning System | Current 2022 Status (@Defcon_Level) February 27, 2022

If russia is going on alert everybody else is going on alert, too. We are dangerously close to nuclear war right now.
US ambassador to the UN @LindaT_G tells @margbrennan that she's not surprised by Putin's nuclear deterrence alert move, saying he has “tried everything possible to actually put fear in the world”.

putin literally held a sStalkerch to the russian people like 10 min ago and said any further aggression by nato will be met with strongest military response even a nuclear first strike

Putin: "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country, but leaders of major Nato countries are making aggressive statements about our country. So I order to move Russia's deterrence forces to a special regime of duty." pic.twitter.com/AC1yHncqZc

— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 27, 2022

Folks, that means tactical nukes are loaded.
We have info on possible polish troops coming in, and Putin warned that any foreign involvement in Ukraine is intolerable.
The inevitable response to the R nuclear posture change is that nuclear forces elsewhere will now also go to high readiness

And the risk of misinterpreting regular russian missile launches on ukraine as nuclear weapons launches goes up considerably.

He's been pretty clear about what would cause a nuclear strike and we just did it.

Ukrainian delegation goes to Gomel for negotiations with the Russian side at Zelenskyy’s initiative, for ceasefire talks — Belpresscenter Russia’s two big conditions stay the same. - Complete demilitarization - Proclaim neutral status

Former top official at Russia's Central Bank: "There's going to be a catastrophe on the Russian currency market on Monday" - REU

France is shutting its airspace to all Russian aircraft and airlines from this evening on, says French transport minister.

at the Ukraine/Poland border

️Ukrainian-Polish border now pic.twitter.com/O2nWvgiJ82

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 27, 2022

another explosion caught on videohttps://streamable.com/v6rgdw

Kharkiv pic.twitter.com/RXxttmzohG

— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 26, 2022

Kadyrov turned to Putin with a request to give permission "to start a large-scale operation in all directions and on the territory of Ukraine":

"I ask the leadership of the country, the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin, to give all special forces the appropriate order so that they can finish with the Nazis and, of course, with the terrorists who killed our women, old people and children in the Chechen Republic."
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces on alert amid tensions with the West over Ukraine.

Crazy. Gay Nato has landed ready to fight

NATO has landed in #Ukraine #Russia #America pic.twitter.com/AzZX7sTsEw

— CaliDude (@caliKid2525) February 26, 2022