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What, besides MAD, has prevented Putin from using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine? inb4 "they don't work anymore", Russia has a mature nuclear industry and
by LarryMullins 4y ago
What, besides MAD, has prevented Putin from using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
inb4 "they don't work anymore", Russia has a mature nuclear industry and huge stockpiles of nuclear material. They're more than capable of making nuclear bombs which work.
- shkkmo 4y agoThe risk of further global isolation and the loss of any military restraint from NATO. I could foresee a wide range of of responses to Russia using a nuke in Ukraine. I highly doubt the US would respond by dropping a nuke on Russia. That just wouldn't accomplish anything useful.
- LarryMullins 4y ago> the loss of any military restraint from NATO. MAD. And what is it that presently restrains NATO? MAD.
- sgjohnson 4y ago> I highly doubt the US would respond by dropping a nuke on Russia. That just wouldn't accomplish anything useful. And you’re probably right—it wouldn’t achieve anything useful. What I’d expect is the first gulf war all over again. Some good 2 months of non-stop relentless air campaign with surgical strikes, and boots on the ground for the final phase. And a dismembered, completely dysfuncional Russia wrapped into endless internal conflicts between the constituent republics at the end.