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There's a 70 year precedent that nuclear superpowers can fight proxy wars without causing nuclear exchanges. So far none of those norms have been violated. Ha
by lamontcg 5y ago
There's a 70 year precedent that nuclear superpowers can fight proxy wars without causing nuclear exchanges. So far none of those norms have been violated.
Having grown up in the 80s, this conflict isn't particularly worrying me, we've been much closer in the past.
- q1w2 5y agoTurkey has closed the straights, there is a direct economic embargo on Russia, and Belarus just joined the invasion to cut NATO supply lines. Russian armor is getting decimated by Turkish drones. This is as "direct" of a conflict as it gets before Russia and NATO actually start shooting at one another. ...and it is not comparable to any other prior proxy war.
- lamontcg 5y agoSoviet SAM operators shot down 48 US aircraft in Vietnam. Not just supplying the NVA with SAMs, but Soviets were firing them at Americans.