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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.
It all but guarantees escalation, from which no one benefits.
Least if all Putin, as it would be the end of Russia.
China is Russia’s greatest friend right now. They probably would not.
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.
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.
Yet another reason why Russia should be denuclearized (how you spell that), and probably split up in 4-5 countries.
Ah shit here we go again
No more limits on aid then. Sanctioned forever.
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.
I somehow have the feeling that before Putin goes down, he’ll just push the “send all nukes” button.
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.
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.
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.
Doesn’t it also take a few minutes to go through the launch procedure? So they’d have time to think
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?
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤔
I know it’s not what it meant, but I had these visions of tactical nuclear powered drills….
A tactical hole here, a tactical hole there… these nuclear drills are great.
But once you start a tactical nuke drill… how do you stop it?
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Eh… Mutually assured destruction.
It’s a very scary phrase.
It’s not scary at all from behind a keyboard.
Something tells me a keyboard is not adequate protection against a nuclear blast but i am no nuclear scientist so…
Get two keyboards. Just to be safe.
Unless you have a wall of old nokia phones… it should be quite scary.
you know that would be bad for everyone, right?
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.
They’re really playing with fire…
