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This obviously has nothing to do with finances and everything to do with the fact that no one wants soldiers of two nuclear powers shooting guns at each other.
by ethanbond 5y ago
This obviously has nothing to do with finances and everything to do with the fact that no one wants soldiers of two nuclear powers shooting guns at each other. This is the actual logic of nuclear weapons, and there is no going back to the world as it was before they existed.
- causi 5y agoIt wouldn't be the first time two nuclear powers fought in a country bordering one of them. Chinese and American soldiers fought in Vietnam.
- dragonwriter 5y agoRussian and American military personnel (mainly, pilots in air-to-air combat) fought in North Korea, too.
- actuator 5y agoIndia and Pakistan both have also fought wars with each other after getting nukes. Sadly, getting nukes seems to be the way out of costs of doing anything bad. Pakistan has waged guerilla warfare against its neighbours and got money from US while harboring their enemy, but can't do anything about it, because nukes.
- ledauphin 5y agoThere definitely isn't any going back. But anyone who thinks the Cold War was somehow the "end of history", meaning that WW3 will never happen because it _couldn't_ happen, is clearly engaging in non-systematic thinking. If the rule is "nuclear powers must never fight", then the _only_ possible endgame is one nuclear power threatening all the others until they give up their nuclear weapons. Given that the US has never pursued this strategy, it seems fair to guess they won't in the future. It seems increasingly likely that Putin believes that no one will ever stand up to him. And even if the West doesn't, it's going to end very badly for Russia when China is the only major world power left to oppose him.