The Kaliningrad stuff is like mainlining heroin for them.
Lookin' for war to fap to.
Personally, I'm in favor of neutral countries, myself:
I don’t think the other poster has any real-world experiences to speak from, only liberal crap. As someone who communicated with those subs constantly, I have no doubt they were on hair-trigger alert and would launch as needed. No nuclear force was ever in doubt. None.
The guys in the sonar rooms did not take off their headphones, or take their eyes off the screens (even in the 1980s) until the oncoming watch was fully briefed and up to speed.
The submarine navy in the 1980s was literally on a hair-trigger, no different than sappers belly-crawling across no-man’s-land in WW1 trench warfare.
I never in my life experienced such focused professionals. They understood that mistaking some subtle difference between natural fish/whale/commercial ship sounds and an enemy submarine could mean their death, and that their survival would come down to coming to the correct conclusions and making the right decisions, literally in seconds. Minutes might as well be hours in that kind of warfare.
Not to mention the pressure of knowing that any mistakes in any direction could result in accidentally triggering WW3, or conversely, getting wiped out in an enemy first strike.
Those guys were so professional, I can’t even convey their level of focus. Surface warship CIC’s were somewhat relaxed by comparison.
The submarine guys lived in a universe of seconds, not minutes.
The Kaliningrad stuff is like mainlining heroin for them.
Lookin' for war to fap to.
Personally, I'm in favor of neutral countries, myself: