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> Maybe a strategic nuke on Kaliningrad if any provocation happens. Surely you must be joking about a first-strike nuclear provocation or larger. I would think
by grapesodaaaaa 2y ago
> Maybe a strategic nuke on Kaliningrad if any provocation happens.
Surely you must be joking about a first-strike nuclear provocation or larger. I would think almost anything other than a border incursion could be dealt with in other ways.
Should Putin be held more accountable for his actions? Absolutely, but a nuclear response is not going to go well unless absolutely justified.
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoYou are replying to a Russian bot, most likely.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoInteresting twist… I chose “provocation” because thats what russians often use (and call for nuking west pretty much every day for decades now).
- dzhiurgis 2y agoFear is the greatest weapon. You can keep sanctioning them, but you’ll never get anywhere. Give nukes to Ukraine, even pretend ones and war will end in minutes.
- jiggawatts 2y agoImagine an enraged man ready to punch an aggressor in the face being held back by his friends. You propose to walk up to him, have him released and give him a loaded gun. The world would blame you, not the wound up man itching for revenge.
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- johnisgood 2y agoHighly doubt.
- pavlov 2y agoPutin is old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when their side actually tried this and had to back down.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Give nukes to Ukraine, even pretend ones and war will end in minutes This is the wrong answer. But it's clear non-proliferation has failed. If Ukraine had kept its nukes from the 90s, this wouldn't have happened. It would have had the ability to credibly threaten that it had reverse engineered the arming mechanisms.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoMy understanding is that they were always in Russian control, kind of like how the US keeps nuclear assets at overseas bases. Not only did the Russians have the codes, but they had soldiers in physical control with the ability to scuttle the devices.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> My understanding is that they were always in Russian control, kind of like how the US keeps nuclear assets at overseas bases No. The 43rd Rocket Army "became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on 6 December 1991 [1]. Unlike American warheads, which are on U.S. bases, those were Russian warheads on Ukrainian bases. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Rocket_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Rocket_Army