comment: >
  
  What's sad is there is a way out of this for Poots. But his pride and ego won't allow it. He'd rather sacrifice every last able bodied person, and his country's economy than admit defeat. Trying to maintain this charade that things are going well, and your economy is still strong, has to be exhausting.
context: I find it hilarious his military campaign that he thought would be over in 3 days, has gotten so bad, they are worried their enemy can strike their capital. >
  
  Very soon they will be able to. The West just wants to be certain its weapons aren't the ones that do it for fear of backlash. But I've been working with Ukranians for over 15 years and it's just a matter of time before they can hit the Kremlin/Moscow/St. Petersburg. And honestly, I wouldn't blame them for targeting political and military targets there. >
  
  The airbases they have been hitting show they can now. It's not fresh in my memory but I recall one air base they hit being nearly the same distance or less to Moscow. >
  
  No, according to the Russians that one was due to two people carelessly smoking, some how taking out an entire ammo dump + two aircraft complete separate of the area. >
  
  Picture this: Russia's top notch defense system mistakes a bird with an Ukrainian drone and accidentally destroys the Kremlin. >
  
  INTEGER :: bird_missile_decision
  REAL :: random_number
  random_number = RANDOM(0)
  IF (random_number .GT. 0.5) THEN
      bird_missile_decision = 1
  PRINT *, "Object is a bird. Peaceful coexistence achieved."
  
  ELSE
  bird_missile_decision = -1
  
  PRINT *, "Object is a missile. Initiating defense protocols."
  
  END IF
  STOP
  END >
  
  Why is the Russian missile system written in Fortran? >
  
  Because that's how ducking old it is. >
  
  I was moreso expecting machine code >
  
  Well it was translated from the punch cards it was into actual code for us to read on Reddit. >
  
  My view: this act is purely for domestic consumption in Russia.  Even if Ukraine has such long-range capability, there is no way they are gonna start firing rockets toward the Kremlin. It serves no military purpose and would be rotten PR. It would play directly into Russia's hands.. These are being installed publicly to give the Russian people the impression that they are under siege, rather than the ugly truth: they are the brutal aggressors in an unjustifiable war against a smaller neighbor that did not pose a threat to them. >
  
  100% most likely Russia has a psychological problem that they are trying to fix, and they will pull all the stop to do so. 
  I wouldn’t be surprised if they “bomb” areas of political significance to try an justify further escalation