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> The US has the capability to devastate the Russian army and strategic Russian targets without the use of nukes or other WMD's And what happens next? It's not
by foverzar 4y ago
> The US has the capability to devastate the Russian army and strategic Russian targets without the use of nukes or other WMD's
And what happens next? It's not like there is some kind of enforced rule that WMDs aren't to be used unless the other side doesn't use them. Strategic WMDs deter against a total loss to a foreign power, by any means, not just other WMDs, don't they?
- bryanlarsen 4y agoThere's a good chance that question would be answered by Putin's successor rather than Putin. The successor would have less face to lose in backing down.
- foverzar 4y ago> There's a good chance Based on what exactly? Like, how do you imagine a successor would appear while the US devastates Russian army and how would they "have less face to lose" when their military is devastated? It is unlikely that anyone will be replacing Putin in the heat of battle, and its hard to imagine a "less face to loose" situation - it's not like it's for one person to decide and Russian politics doesn't work that way either - there is no tradition to reset politics every few years with a new talking head. No idea how mr "Less face to lose" would be able to do something like that without starting a civil war.