Funny how you lie about it. Offensive Nuckear Weapons and tanks are two complete different things
But you can come out of your bunker. The picture is not of US tanks.
But you can come out of your bunker. The picture is not of US tanks.
Actually, my comment was related to the simple fact that different countries (and different people ;>) see actions differently - an action that one country sees as reasonable and advisable, may be perceived by a different country as both unreasonable and threatening. Intrinsic to my example is the human tendency to amplify potential threats that are nearby, and discount those that are distant. Your apparent insistence that hardware has to be identical for an action to be perceived as threatening suggests that you are blind to those facts.
Your "bunker" comment also highlights your perception bias - even though you know Russia has nuclear weapons, and might even be aware that they have recently threatened to use nuclear weapons, you scoff at the possibility. Is that because you have decades of direct experience working with the Russian military and political leadership, and have been a close friend of Putin for years? I doubt it. More likely, you are simply 'projecting': you quite obviously do not see non-nuclear escalation as a reasonable justification to "go nuclear", and you assume Putin sees things exactly as do you. I am not a betting man, but I would wager my life savings that Vladimir Putin sees the Ukraine situation differently than does MNJohnnie.
Finally, I could not help but notice (in sequential posts, #49 & #50) that you accuse people with whom you disagree of lying. Given that most people posting here have no financial, professional, or other motivation to intentionally deceive anyone, your claims that they are lying suggest that you consider your own opinions to be `true', and any contradictory view to be 'false'. In short, you apparently have an extreme case of 'tunnel vision' - which essentially proves the points I addressed above. Thank you!
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