The Russians love their children, too.
“The Russians love their children, too.”
That has a Sting to it.
“The Russians love their children, too.”
More than we do, I guess. After all, we’re all into filling them with hormones and cutting off their twangs, if they happen to pick up a barbie...and WE (as in many American parents) are the ones who bring our kids to the Drag Queen Story Time Hours, throughout the country.
In Russia, the minute a drag queen is in public, life for that nutcase becomes much more difficult (and unlike Iran, Putin doesn’t care what they do in private...just keep it away from the kids).
I rode a plateform that had the capability to destroy the entire USSR in 1973. If we were ever called to spin up and do it, we knew there was nothing to go home too. Ivan knew it too. It was called the Cold War. I only believed we were there in it once. A very sobering moment, my wife and son were in the path. Nothing to go home too, worry about Russians all you want, they like home. Muslims not so much. Fact not fiction.
Mutual Assured Destruction prevented nuclear war for the duration of the Cold War.
Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviets realized that it was Fidel Castro who was screaming “Let’s you and them fight!!”. Cooler heads prevailed.
After all, if you’re communist & atheistic, this life is all there is.
Russians aren’t suicidal. Putin has no assurance of 100% success & total interdiction of a U.S. second strike. His new weapons systems are mainly for intimidation, because as Nikita Khrushchev once said, “If we fire all our rockets at America, then they have completely FAILED in their purpose!”
But Muslims are suicidal, because their religion tells them only shahids have a direct path to paradise. Even so the mullahs in Iran despite their bluster aren’t in that big a hurry to go nuclear; not with Israeli nukes aimed at them like a cocked pistol.
Ditto the Pakistanis, with an equally nuclear India watching them like a hawk.