• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Using a tactical nuke is the fastest way to ensure the rest of the world beats you into oblivion. Hell, China and the US would probably team up to stomp on Russia if they tried to pull a stunt like that.

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        7 months ago

        Not sure if friendship accurately describes the relationship between Russia and China.

        I think it is a very opportunistic and imbalanced relationship. With Russia having little alternatives, and China gladly taking advantage of cheap resources and selling opportunities.

        I can’t see China sticking with Russia for ideological reasons the second the situation becomes unfavorable for them. In that case they’ll drop them like a hot potato and swoop back in to profit once the dust has settled again.

        But you are right that they might not team up with the West and rather choose to just sit on the sidelines. At least as long as no one forces them to pick a side.

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          7 months ago

          I think if China were to finally invade Taiwan, they would became even closer. And it seems like they’re moving closer to that decision.

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    7 months ago

    Yet another reason why Russia should be denuclearized (how you spell that), and probably split up in 4-5 countries.

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      7 months ago

      Using nukes is probably the fastest way for Russia to end sanctions. There would be no need for sanctions once NATO ends Putin’s government.

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          7 months ago

          This still relies on humans carrying out these orders, which, historically, they have never done (Cuba Crisis, false alerts in the USSR). Putins button isn’t wired to the ICBM launcher.

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            I don’t think the button was ever pushed. Cuba crisis came very close and the false alerts were automated messages that were correctly deemed as false by the commanders. As far as I know there has never been a direct order to fire that got denied.

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              7 months ago

              Yes, but it still comes down to the fact that it is at least unlikely for the entire chain of command down to the person who launches the nukes to look in the eye of the annihilation of society as we know it and still advance/carry out that order. In every situation where humans were faced with an order to launch, they decided not to carry it out so far.

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                7 months ago

                Doesn’t it also take a few minutes to go through the launch procedure? So they’d have time to think

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                  7 months ago

                  Putin uses 1st nuke.

                  Nato strikes back conventionally

                  Putin orders all nukes.

                  Kid at a computer ordered by putin to launch all nukes - am I the baddy?

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            7 months ago

            I have a different interpretation of those close calls: we were very very lucky and should not rely on defiance as a mechanism to avoid the apocalypse.

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            7 months ago

            I’ve seen an interview with a former CIA spy who used to work in the bunker where they would have to insert rings (two of them) if an order came that said to launch nukes. They preselected them all on a psychological profile and, importantly, they did drills that they didn’t know were drills. So they never knew whether the command coming in was real or not. They “launched” every single time.

            I can very well imagine that this kind of “loyalty” would be tested in Russia as well.

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              They preselected them so well that a CIA spy worked in the bunker. I wonder where else along the chain there might be CIA spys.

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          7 months ago

          That also raises the question of how many of Russia’s nukes are still viable, and how many of their ICBMs will work properly. There is also the factor of how effective the anti ICBM system that America explicitly does not have in orbit would be. 🤔

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    7 months ago

    I know it’s not what it meant, but I had these visions of tactical nuclear powered drills….

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    Putin has zero chill. It’s a shame he can’t just…not do this. Like he could likely have anything he wants in life, and this is what he chooses? You have to be cancer in personified form to be a genocidal maniac like this.