Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoPutin doesn't really want a war with NATO because 'Russia will lose and lose quickly,' UK military chief sayswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1438
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minus-squareClbull@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·8 months agoNobody wants a war between NATO and Russia because in that scenario, everybody loses. Russia wouldn’t win a ground conflict, but they’d sure-as-hell nuke the fuck out of every major city.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 months agoThat would be the end of Russia and they know it.
minus-squareitslilithlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·8 months agoIt would also be the end of NATO and probably the rest of the world. That’s why it’s called mutually assured destruction. But it seems like recently policy makers are forgetting that
minus-squareefstajas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoThat’s exactly the point. Why would Russia send nukes if it knows it’ll be destroyed in retribution?
minus-squareEffortlessEffluvium@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoBecause assholes gonna asshole
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months ago“Russia” as a whole wouldn’t want that. But there’s only one guy in charge of everything.
Nobody wants a war between NATO and Russia because in that scenario, everybody loses.
Russia wouldn’t win a ground conflict, but they’d sure-as-hell nuke the fuck out of every major city.
That would be the end of Russia and they know it.
It would also be the end of NATO and probably the rest of the world. That’s why it’s called mutually assured destruction. But it seems like recently policy makers are forgetting that
That’s exactly the point. Why would Russia send nukes if it knows it’ll be destroyed in retribution?
Because assholes gonna asshole
“Russia” as a whole wouldn’t want that. But there’s only one guy in charge of everything.