Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so?
isles@lemmy.world 10 months agoyou get into a state where militarily no one can do anything (except wage a war in a country that doesn’t have nuclear weapons)
ok, I got it. Give every country nuclear weapons and then there is nowhere to wage war.
Well military yes. You still have economic and cyber wars and colour revolutions (upsetting the locals to raise up against the power).
Which honestly you’re seeing more of. And military wars breaking out in territories and countries without nuclear weapons.
cynar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The proviso of this is that all the countries involved are led by sane, (reasonably) rational leaders. It also breaks down if they get into the hands of non-governmental forces. If they get into the hands of someone willing to act irrationality, a lot of people will be very screwed.
Interestingly, Ukraine was once a nuclear power. They had a significant chunk of the USSR’s arsenal. They decommissioned them, due to safety concerns. Part of that deal was protection from invasion (both from Russia and NATO). I suspect they now regret giving up their nukes.