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Russian leader says he hopes nuclear strikes 'will not be required'
- rzzzwilson 2y agoTo which the answer should be: We hope that the need to defeat Russia because it used nuclear weapons in Ukraine will not be required.
- drysine 2y agoYou can't defeat a country that has an arsenal of megadeath.
- maximinus_thrax 2y agolol. America has an arguably more effective arsenal and has already been defeated.
- rzzzwilson 2y agoSo if you owned a small shop and a bunch of hoods came in and said "nice shop, pity if it should catch fire accidentally" you would do whatever they told you to do? > You can't defeat a country that has an arsenal of megadeath. But you can push back on their threats and not just acquiesce. That just ensures more outrageous demands next time, with the same threats. See appeasement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
- drysine 1y ago>So if you owned a small shop and a bunch of hoods came in and said "nice shop, pity if it should catch fire accidentally" you would do whatever they told you to do? No, that's why Russia finally acted in the response to the NATO expansion and the revolutions "mid-wifed" by the US.
- maximinus_thrax 1y agoNATO is not an empire and did not 'expand'. Countries willingly voted to join. Latest examples being Finland and Sweden, as a response for actual Russian expansion.