Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?
sith@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoBut what should one do if one has a neighbor who’s constantly threatens with nuclear annihilation and who doesn’t respect anyone who’s not also a nuclear power? I feel that we’re no longer in a Nash equilibrium.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Build up defence, and a plausible threat using other less awful weapons.
Nuclear threatens the civil population. Despots like Putin might not even care all that muscha about that. What we need is targeted weapons and intelligence. Putin should expect that, if he launches a nuke, might not mean that Moscow will be transformed to ashes, but we'll take out him and his cross-within targeted strikes wherever they may hide.
The Russians have a history of burning their cities to the ground, and of sacrificing their population for strategic reasons. Targeting the civilian population is pointless. We can do a lot better with targeted strikes, and with modern technology it should be possible.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
It’s hard to launch a precision counter-strike when your adversary has the capability and quantity of nukes to not only completely overwhelm your air defense systems, but own enough nukes to accept a loss of 80% of them and still have enough going through every layer of your countries defenses to destroy you and the entire rest of the world 6 times over.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Considering this is the problem, I struggle to believe "more nukes" is the solution. No matter how much American political realists enjoy jerking off to their doomsday scenarios.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
Cool, but no county is going to say “let’s build just one nuke for deterrence and stop there”.
sith@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Fair point.