Unless we’re missing something he doesn’t have much more to escalate with.
He still thinks the west is scared of Russia, when the war in Ukraine has shown the post soviet bogyman to be as scary as modern day Steven Seagal (an unfit, obese senior citizen who still thinks they are a 30 year old bad ass he portrayed in movies but was always bullshit.)
All they have left is the nuke threat and that can never be acted upon.
All they have left is the nuke threat and that can never be acted upon.
I hope it isn’t acted upon. But I’m no longer able to expect sanity from people, especially ones in power.
It is not the ones in power that actually launch the nukes. It is normal military personnel.
Several times since WW2 the USSR/Rus military have had orders to launch nukes and the people on the ground have refused to do so.
Once during the cuban missle crisis. (USSR)
Another during post soviet times.
This vid lists the incidents I am talking about.
So I am actually not worried about nukes at all.
First off: Putin and those in power know the use of nukes means they (and their cushy oligarch lives) are gone.
Second: I doubt their orders, if ever given, will be carried out.
TLDR: Due the the certainty of massive retaliation nukes will never be used.
They would be MAD to use them
Hmm. They could use agent orange. Maybe bomb Ukraine to the same extent the US bombed North Korea.
And there’s always tactical nukes. They could just start nuking Ukrainian cities one by one, dropping leaflets to warn them of what’s coming beforehand. It might even be more humanitarian if you consider the loss of life that’ll otherwise happen due to the human meat grinder.
Maybe drop one to show that Russia still has the capability, then another on a different city to show that Russia can keep dropping bombs for as long as it takes?
Ah, another hexbear genius that thinks Putin and his cabinet would survive if they dropped a nuke.
Whoosh?
It’s a shitty, misleading comparison not worth acknowledging.
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Thanks for using your alt to downvote me!
Good idea. I’ve heard that nuking cities is a very effective way of forcing a stubborn enemy nation to surrender.
It’s also preferable to a prolonged invasion and conventional bombing campaign, simply in terms of number of casualties. The number of people killed by the two nuclear bombings it would take to force Ukraine to surrender would be significantly smaller than the number of casualties incurred by a drawn out conventional invasion.
Seems like the only moral course of action for Putin to take.
