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.
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.
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.
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” ??
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.
Translation: US false flag coming right up.
I'd bet he's closer to Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton. $$$
DC would make more sense.
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The Obama regime would love for the Euro-crackers to get nuked.
This is wrong. They don’t “have” to do anything.
FEELING you have to do something doesn’t mean you HAVE to do something.
I believe many of them WANT to do this. And are going through the rationalizations to justify it.
Right at the time NATO is losing it’s war for regime change in Russia, some analysts are pointing out that the Ukraine will now stage a false flag framing Russia for attacking a nuclear power plant in order to get US and NATO boots on the ground. So now there’s this fanning of fears hitting the airwaves big time. *sigh*
The link to the article is: https://ria.ru/20230625/yao-1880235742.html
The excerpted content provided inexcusably leaves out some important information.
The first user comment is:
Popular commentsAre you crazy with such headlines?
Chias Mio
25 June, 10:32
Of course, the headline is not written by the author. More importantly, the crazy headline does not approximate any claim made in the article by Sergey Karaganov. Nowhere did Karaganov state, in words or substance, that "There is no choice: Russia will have to launch a nuclear strike on Europe."
The cherry picked excerpts deliberately leave out directly relevant commentary of Karaganov, as shown below:
Seventy-five years of mutual deterrence, nuclear weapons have saved the world, and people have just gotten 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 nuclear power.The official history of the creation of atomic weapons is known, but, from my point of view, there is still a super-idea of its appearance. It's as if the Lord God saw that a significant part of humanity went mad by unleashing two world wars in the lifetime of one generation, and handed people nuclear weapons - weapons of the apocalypse, so that people would have them in front of their eyes all the time and frighten them.
And now people have lost their fear.
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I hope that we will never use nuclear weapons, but the fact that we refuse the possibility of using them in all situations, except in the event of mortal danger to the state itself, seems to me frivolous.
Thus, the States tie Russia's hands and hope to blow it up in the long run with this long war. And, as a result, radically weaken its main rival - China, which in which case will be alone. This is a strategic plan that is absolutely clear. Well, at the same time, the Americans, having already thrown the Ukrainian people into the furnace, are pushing Europe there, destroying the positions that it has occupied for five centuries. They thereby solve another problem - they destroy the Old World as a strategic player and potential strategic competitor. In turn, comprador European elites drive their countries and peoples to the slaughter.
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 at some point has to project his determination to use nuclear weapons.
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And of course, I would not want nuclear weapons to be used. First, for moral and ethical reasons: I think we are united with the Chinese. And secondly, because the Chinese still have a small nuclear potential, the movement of military-political competition in this area is now undesirable for him. In ten years, they will have a first-class nuclear potential (and even in five to seven years, their situation will change), and then the best option to prevent a major thermonuclear war will be one in which a more powerful China will stand at the forefront, and Russia will prop it up and cover it, as the Chinese are now propping us up.
I perfectly understand the moral anguish of people who say: under no circumstances is the use of nuclear weapons unthinkable and unacceptable. To which I answer them: my friends, I respect pacifists, but they exist and live in this world only because soldiers are fighting and dying for them, as our soldiers and officers are fighting now in Ukraine.
Russia invades Ukraine and it is “the West [that] has unleashed a big war.” Interesting logic there, or the lack there of.