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I find it amazing that we have people wringing their hands every year that the US dropped ‘tactical’ nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the biggest war ever. An
by mc32 4y ago
I find it amazing that we have people wringing their hands every year that the US dropped ‘tactical’ nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the biggest war ever. And how that is a lesson we should learn and burden we should carry, but in Ukraine, never mind, it’s no big deal. If it happens it happens. We can contain it. Keep up the pressure. If it pops, don’t worry, “We got this!” messaging we’re hearing. Just Wow!
- nickpp 4y agoI doubt anybody thinks "it’s no big deal". But in this game of high-stakes nuclear poker, if you communicate your fears and self-imposed limits to your enemy - you increase the chance he'll use them against you. After all, the MAD strategy did keep us safe during the cold war while giving up their nukes did bring Ukraine an invasion.
- HKH2 4y ago> I doubt anybody thinks "it’s no big deal". But in this game of high-stakes nuclear poker, if you communicate your fears and self-imposed limits to your enemy - you increase the chance he'll use them against you. Like General Milley secretly telling the Chinese government that Trump wouldn't be able to use nukes against them? He hasn't been tried for treason, so some people clearly don't think it's that important.