Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia is technically prepared for a nuclear war, and that should the US send troops to Ukraine, it would be regarded as a considerable escalation of the war.
Oh look, Pooty is signalling to his western plants to start raising the alarm of nuclear war. Jokes on him though: most of the West were never exposed to the horrors of nuclear war outside of hiding under desks to simulate how to die graciously.
He’ll never use them, not that he can make that decision unilaterally anyway. He wants to have a legacy, not be the guy forever remembered as the reason Russia got turned into a radioactive wasteland.
Call me naive but i think even if he goes to push the button either someone else will stop him or the guy who actually launches the missile wont do it. AFAIK he doesnt have a launch button, but a “ok to launch” button, and theres a surprising history of people refusing to do so even when ordered.
Not to downplay the severity or anything, putin is a madman the world is better off without. Im worried he’ll continue his warpath, but not worried he’ll destroy the world if that makes sense.
Yes, agreed. It’s critical to set a precedent at this moment in history that threatening nuclear war as a way to support imperial land grabs won’t be tolerated by the international community.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that some Ukrainian military commanders were considering hitting missile launch sites inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range missiles. ... "What does this mean? It means only one thing – they risk running into the action of paragraph 19 of the fundamentals of Russia's state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence," Medvedev wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "This should be remembered," Medvedev said. Paragraph nineteen of Russia's 2020 nuclear doctrine sets out the conditions under which a Russian president would consider using a nuclear weapo ... Medvedev made specific mention of point "g" of paragraph nineteen which deals with the nuclear response to a conventional weapons attack.
Christ… this shit again? And again? And again and again and again?
If I had a nickel for every time these russian parasites spewed hot sewage air and it got tagged as “newsworthy”, adding yet more noise to the goddamned constant feedback loop, I could have bought myself some nice noise-cancelling headphones already.
@lusterko Just think, to destroy russia all it would take is two missiles, one for Moscow and one for for St. Petersburg. Most of the rest of russia lives in the Stone Age and don’t even have toilets or washing machines.
@lusterko IMHO 1/ Putin says s*** 2/ Even if such nuclear blackmail was to be taken seriously (and it can hardly be when you see all the allegedly "red lines" we've crossed since march 2022), defeating Russia would still be worth it for there's no possible nor acceptable future with Putin's regime.
IRC a more realistic scenario is that they do an airburst strike (limits fallout) above an unoccupied (no civlians left) part of Ukraine as a show of force. Official Russian doctrine:
They think this will bring their enemies to the table.
I honestly don't think it will, after all the atrocities they've committed. More likely, they'll be fully ostracized, the west will give Ukraine even more weapons, Europe will enter the war in Ukraine, and the US will come with a conventional but devastating response.
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