Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so?
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think they weren’t ever going to use them because they know they would get nuked in turn. Once it became clear the bluff wasn’t working, makes you look weak to use a threat and not follow through.
Yep. Mutually Assured Destruction.
Some countries will use the threat of nuclear war to get what they want. But what they want often involves still being alive afterwards. Putin, like the rest of the leaders of countries with nuclear arms, knows that a nuclear strike demands a nuclear response. There is no other option and unfortunately the whole world suffers as a result.
Although I don’t think pootin cares about his people and wont care if they get killed.
He should at the very least care about the oligarchs in the country who are reliant on the Russian people to build and maintain their wealth. There’s no wealth without people.
BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Plus many of them are so poorly maintained they likely wouldn’t launch anyway. Missiles have a lot of upkeep
Skua@kbin.social 8 months ago
While this may well be true, Russia has so many nukes and nukes are themselves so destructive that it's kinda cold comfort even if 90% of them fail
Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 months ago
T156@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You wouldn’t even need a working one. A lot of nuclear responses work by going off the moment a likely missile fitting that criteria launches, since it would be too late otherwise.
Someone making the wrong decision at a given time could easily cause everything to go up in a nuclear conflagration. It’s nearly happened before.
Forester@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Comrade what do with mini ICBM no longer function?
I have a best solution we take derelict submarine insert many warhead call it Poseidon. Is Gloria’s Soviet superweapon Dah.