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Tell that to Ukraine! Edit: it's not about throwing nukes at each other... It's about having nukes that you can use if someone invades you.
by throwaway290 1y ago
Tell that to Ukraine!
Edit: it's not about throwing nukes at each other... It's about having nukes that you can use if someone invades you.
- rusk 1y agoRussia aren’t going to use nukes on their own doorstep. That’s a a NATO problem. It’s like openly knifing somebody in public repeatedly while holding the would be hero’s at bay with a gun. Yes this is an actual thing that happened in the UK about 10 years ago.
- scott_w 1y agoUm... Russia's doctrine during the Cold War was to turn Poland into a nuclear wasteland to stop Nato advancing through it. At the time, Poland was a part of the USSR. What Russia considers "a buffer zone" is really "inferior peoples we can atomise without having to open a new conflict with a foreign power." To be clear, I use the term "inferior peoples" as seen from the Russian point of view.
- kelipso 1y agoPoland was part of the Warsaw Pact but it was never in the USSR.
- greedo 1y agoYou've got it reversed... Soviet doctrine (not Russian) was to use tactical nuclear weapons immediately during their attempt to invade West Germany and march to the Atlantic.
- scott_w 1y agoI’ve been looking and you are correct, though I do recall seeing something different, so perhaps what I read was misinterpreting the Seven Days to the Rhine plan.
- palmotea 1y ago> Edit: it's not about throwing nukes at each other... It's about having nukes that you can use if someone invades you. Russia has nukes and got invaded (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_campaign), did it use them?
- throwaway290 1y agohaving nukes doesn't mean when you invade a nuke-free country and it will just fall over for you. but not having nukes means a country with nukes can feel comfy invading you....