Posted on 06/25/2023 11:06:35 PM PDT by Nextrush
For seventy-five years of mutual deterrence, nuclear weapons have saved the world, and people just got used to it. Now we see with our own eyes that nuclear weapons no longer stop, because the unthinkable is happening: the West has unleashed a big war in the underbelly of a great nucler power...
At some point, we also calmed down, went in line with Western theories and recklessly raised the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, which the West is now using for a reason. There all the time, semi-officials emphasize: no, the Russians will never use nuclear weapons. They want us not to even raise this question under any circumstances, as if clearing the way for them for an endless war in Ukraine. But given that their military-industrial potential is higher than ours, they just want to wear us out...
I want to believe that our opponents will come to their senses. Because if not, then the military-political leadership of Russia will face a terrible moral choice and the need to make a difficult decision. But I believe that our president must at some point project his determination to use nuclear weapons...
the use of nuclear weapons is a monstrous step, it should be avoided if possible. But, as the vector of the West, its elites and society, their movement towards anti-human and post-human values shows, all this indicates and objective approach to a big thermonuclear war. We must interrupt this process and thus save the world- if possible, of course, avoiding super-tough actions...
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The author is a political scientist in Russia said to be close to both President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Bluster is all they have now.
Biden is playing with fire will he get someone burned.
Bluster bombs. They make you die laughing.
I hope.....
I love how the gig is now the fault of the west. Sure thing we attacked the Ukraine
MAD. We’ll nuke them back. Putin is not going to do it unless he predicts he’ll get overthrown in a minute.
Their special military operation went from clusterf*** to blusterf***
Just provoked Russia with decades of activity up to and including the 2014 coup in Ukraine.
The Neo-cons hoping for Putins’ fall think they will get someone weak and corrupt like Yeltsin to replace him.
More likely they get someone like this guy.
Your dream is here! ,br> Your grandson will die,'cause you willed'it
Bet u proud!
I have participated in the plutonium decontamination of a laboratory. I have performed the radiation dosage calculations associated with a theoretical nuclear reactor accident.
Back in WW2 and shortly there after in the design of a nuclear bomb, there was something called LD 50 30. This was a lethal dose of radiation that would kill 50 percent of an exposed population within 30 days. This was how the military evaluated nuclear weapons. Those are huge doses and will make people really sick and kill some quickly and others will die from compromised immune systems later on or from cancer.
Now to the point. In a nuclear confrontation, some people will be killed quickly and some will die slowly, but the Hollywood apocalypse on a nuclear wasteland, a nuclear winter is overplayed.
If people can go in and just hose down or paint over contaminated areas, they will become livable quite shortly and death from long term contamination will not be the same as in the movies. People and life are much more resilient than we generally believe.
Obama promised Putin he could take over Ukraine, si Biden has to abide with that agreement.
There’s always a choice left in war, and no, Russia does NOT *HAVE TO* launch a nuclear strike against Europe.
I saw at least eight of these movies beginning with "Fail-Safe", continuing through "Dr. Strangelove", "WarGames", and the TV Miniseries "World War III".
“nucler” ??
They mean a nuclei attack. A different animal
What a joke.
Putin wants to live. And why would he want to sacrifice all Russia?
The deep-state warmongering imperialists in the Kremlin are not clever, but they are not THAT utterly stupid.
Do one are bloodthirsty idiots.
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