Russia can't use nukes because MAD = everyone dies. Russia cannot win a war using nukes. Nobody can.
Russia could certainly obtain meaningful gains from making nuclear threats if the target of the threats agrees to submission out of fear of nukes, but this has never happened historically, and has not happened in 2022 despite Russia making a lot of nuke threats.
You might be unhappy enough with your life that you'd be willing to commit suicide if it meant all the people you hate in the world would die, too. Certainly there are no shortage of mentally ill people online willing to take that position.
Thankfully, people like you are not in power in Russia or China, or even North Korea or Iran. All the elites who run those countries live very luxurious lives, and have a lot to lose. They don't want to die and see their nation glassed because they felt like they needed to flip the chess board as a cope for being a loser. Their true cope is to make their common people the losers while they continue to live lives of extravagance.
you sure love your economic terrorism
Is it "economic terrorism" if you refuse to buy Disney products? No? Then it isn't economic terrorism for the United States to refuse to buy Russian products.
No country on earth is entitled to the benefits of US trade or US money. We have the right to refuse to do business with anyone.
Russia can't use nukes because MAD = everyone dies. Russia cannot win a war using nukes. Nobody can.
That's your religion, but if that were the case, China, Russia and the US would not have spent massive amounts of money upgrading their nuclear stockpiles. Your own reference to Vasily Arkhipov makes it seem that you realize full well the limits of MAD.
You might be unhappy enough with your life that you'd be willing to commit suicide if it meant all the people you hate in the world would die, too. Certainly there are no shortage of mentally ill people online willing to take that position.
Westerners have a different mindset from the rest of the world. The fact that you are so obsessed with not dying, eventhough you one day will, is quite a useful tool for a country like Russia, quite apart from the fact that way more people live in the GAE than live in Russia - so nuclear war is not exactly a bad trade from their POV.
They don't want to die and see their nation glassed because they felt like they needed to flip the chess board as a cope for being a loser.
I imagine Western leaders also do not want their countries glassed - who will they order around and exploit if that were to happen? Putin's excessive caution has made them arrogant. They definitely would not be this aggressive if there were a gung ho Khrushchev type in power there.
Is it "economic terrorism" if you refuse to buy Disney products? No? Then it isn't economic terrorism for the United States to refuse to buy Russian products.
What a pathetic comparison. That is an individual choice, not an attempt to destroy an entire country's economy for doing what your warmongering country has done way worse in the past few decades.
No country on earth is entitled to the benefits of US trade or US money. We have the right to refuse to do business with anyone.
To be clear, you're saying that your tyrannical government has the "right" to imprison its own citizens for not refusing to do business based for fraudulent reasons? And that you have the 'right' to steal $300 billion in Russian reserves?
That's your religion, but if that were the case, China, Russia and the US would not have spent massive amounts of money upgrading their nuclear stockpiles.
China kept a tiny nuke force for its whole history until very recently, so that disproves your point, doesn't it?
I don't think a torpedo would have triggered a general exchange. It would have triggered some sort of escalation that would have made the Soviets worse off.
I don't think the Russian nuclear launch chain of command is insecure enough to result in a wildcard launch. Putin and his Oligarchs do not want another Valentin Savitsky to end the world and kill them.
Putin still doesn't have the balls to use a tactical nuke because he knows the sanctions response would be far worse, even if NATO wouldn't respond with nukes. The pariah status he would face would be irrecoverable.
I'm content to rely on MAD forever, if the alternative is "allow myself to be raped by nuclear blackmail forever". Why would anyone agree to that?
Westerners have a different mindset from the rest of the world. The fact that you are so obsessed with not dying, eventhough you one day will, is quite a useful tool for a country like Russia, quite apart from the fact that way more people live in the GAE than live in Russia - so nuclear war is not exactly a bad trade from their POV.
The elites who rule Russia are no different than plenty of elites in the West. They are rich and lead pampered lives of luxury, far better than the average Westerner. The Russian nuclear codes are not in the hands of some random Gopnik who doesn't care if he lives or dies. The fact that Western politicians actually care about social welfare isn't the weakness you think it is. GJ contradicting yourself on your "all politicians are the same" line, though.
I imagine Western leaders also do not want their countries glassed
Nobody does, which is why no one has ever used nukes. It's why Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in WW2.
What a pathetic comparison. That is an individual choice, not an attempt to destroy an entire country's economy for doing what your warmongering country has done way worse in the past few decades.
US sanctions are an "individual choice" on the nation-state level. They are not an attempt to destroy a country's economy, but rather to make it so America is not complicit in their war machine. Quite frankly your victim routine means nothing: the West isn't going to stop using sanctions to punish nations who behave badly.
you're saying that your tyrannical government has the "right" to imprison its own citizens for not refusing to do business
That is, in fact, how laws work. US corporations are required to obey US laws, and if we sanction North Korea or Iran, they have to cut ties.
China kept a tiny nuke force for its whole history until very recently, so that disproves your point, doesn't it?
Not at all. Why would it expand its nukes if they're never going to be used anyway? Why did the US and Russia make enormous investments in nukes?
I don't think the Russian nuclear launch chain of command is insecure enough to result in a wildcard launch. Putin and his Oligarchs do not want another Valentin Savitsky to end the world and kill them.
The point is not that another Arkhipov incident is imminent, only that if use of such weapons was not unthinkable then, it definitely is not the same now.
I'm content to rely on MAD forever, if the alternative is "allow myself to be raped by nuclear blackmail forever". Why would anyone agree to that?
No, you prefer to rape others with nuclear blackmail instead...
The elites who rule Russia are no different than plenty of elites in the West. They are rich and lead pampered lives of luxury, far better than the average Westerner. The Russian nuclear codes are not in the hands of some random Gopnik who doesn't care if he lives or dies. The fact that Western politicians actually care about social welfare isn't the weakness you think it is. GJ contradicting yourself on your "all politicians are the same" line, though.
You're better than low IQ takes like this. I said that they are all equally immoral and have as little regard for human life as the worst of them. Obviously, a guy who had to be a taxi driver to supplement his FSB income is going to look at the world differently from someone who lived his whole life in luxury like your "moral" president Biden.
Nobody does, which is why no one has ever used nukes. It's why Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in WW2.
And so they're not going to provoke a nuclear confrontaton.
US sanctions are an "individual choice" on the nation-state level. They are not an attempt to destroy a country's economy, but rather to make it so America is not complicit in their war machine.
Like you're complicit and funding the war machines of Azerbaijan in Armenia and Saudi Arabia in Yemen? Oh right. Not to mention your own war machine.
Quite frankly your victim routine means nothing: the West isn't going to stop using sanctions to punish nations who behave badly.
Behave badly. Jesus Christ, the nerve of a guy living in a country responsible for millions of deaths in the past few decades. I don't expect these career criminals to stop abusing their power. I hope that Russia and China will smash Western hegemony so that they can't abuse their power as they do now.
That is, in fact, how laws work. US corporations are required to obey US laws, and if we sanction North Korea or Iran, they have to cut ties.
So yeah, you're defending the right of your tyrannical government to get in the way of commerce between private parties in order to advance its nefarious geopolitical interests. And so your comparison with a boycott of the groomers at Disney was completely misplaced.
God willing, one day we will sanction China.
It'd be funny if China turns into a """"""""democracy""""""""""" like your Empire (though with less running over old ladies with horses), and you have to struggle to find another excuse to sanction and destroy the country.
Cause I believe in your good intentions, and that for you it's not "sanction China so we retain global hegemony". I don't believe in the good intentions of the leaders who have deceived you.
Russia can't use nukes because MAD = everyone dies. Russia cannot win a war using nukes. Nobody can.
Russia could certainly obtain meaningful gains from making nuclear threats if the target of the threats agrees to submission out of fear of nukes, but this has never happened historically, and has not happened in 2022 despite Russia making a lot of nuke threats.
You might be unhappy enough with your life that you'd be willing to commit suicide if it meant all the people you hate in the world would die, too. Certainly there are no shortage of mentally ill people online willing to take that position.
Thankfully, people like you are not in power in Russia or China, or even North Korea or Iran. All the elites who run those countries live very luxurious lives, and have a lot to lose. They don't want to die and see their nation glassed because they felt like they needed to flip the chess board as a cope for being a loser. Their true cope is to make their common people the losers while they continue to live lives of extravagance.
Is it "economic terrorism" if you refuse to buy Disney products? No? Then it isn't economic terrorism for the United States to refuse to buy Russian products.
No country on earth is entitled to the benefits of US trade or US money. We have the right to refuse to do business with anyone.
That's your religion, but if that were the case, China, Russia and the US would not have spent massive amounts of money upgrading their nuclear stockpiles. Your own reference to Vasily Arkhipov makes it seem that you realize full well the limits of MAD.
Westerners have a different mindset from the rest of the world. The fact that you are so obsessed with not dying, eventhough you one day will, is quite a useful tool for a country like Russia, quite apart from the fact that way more people live in the GAE than live in Russia - so nuclear war is not exactly a bad trade from their POV.
I imagine Western leaders also do not want their countries glassed - who will they order around and exploit if that were to happen? Putin's excessive caution has made them arrogant. They definitely would not be this aggressive if there were a gung ho Khrushchev type in power there.
What a pathetic comparison. That is an individual choice, not an attempt to destroy an entire country's economy for doing what your warmongering country has done way worse in the past few decades.
To be clear, you're saying that your tyrannical government has the "right" to imprison its own citizens for not refusing to do business based for fraudulent reasons? And that you have the 'right' to steal $300 billion in Russian reserves?
China kept a tiny nuke force for its whole history until very recently, so that disproves your point, doesn't it?
And the US and Russia have greatly reduced their nuke warhead count over the years.
I don't think a torpedo would have triggered a general exchange. It would have triggered some sort of escalation that would have made the Soviets worse off.
I don't think the Russian nuclear launch chain of command is insecure enough to result in a wildcard launch. Putin and his Oligarchs do not want another Valentin Savitsky to end the world and kill them.
Putin still doesn't have the balls to use a tactical nuke because he knows the sanctions response would be far worse, even if NATO wouldn't respond with nukes. The pariah status he would face would be irrecoverable.
I'm content to rely on MAD forever, if the alternative is "allow myself to be raped by nuclear blackmail forever". Why would anyone agree to that?
The elites who rule Russia are no different than plenty of elites in the West. They are rich and lead pampered lives of luxury, far better than the average Westerner. The Russian nuclear codes are not in the hands of some random Gopnik who doesn't care if he lives or dies. The fact that Western politicians actually care about social welfare isn't the weakness you think it is. GJ contradicting yourself on your "all politicians are the same" line, though.
Nobody does, which is why no one has ever used nukes. It's why Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in WW2.
US sanctions are an "individual choice" on the nation-state level. They are not an attempt to destroy a country's economy, but rather to make it so America is not complicit in their war machine. Quite frankly your victim routine means nothing: the West isn't going to stop using sanctions to punish nations who behave badly.
That is, in fact, how laws work. US corporations are required to obey US laws, and if we sanction North Korea or Iran, they have to cut ties.
God willing, one day we will sanction China.
Not at all. Why would it expand its nukes if they're never going to be used anyway? Why did the US and Russia make enormous investments in nukes?
The point is not that another Arkhipov incident is imminent, only that if use of such weapons was not unthinkable then, it definitely is not the same now.
No, you prefer to rape others with nuclear blackmail instead...
You're better than low IQ takes like this. I said that they are all equally immoral and have as little regard for human life as the worst of them. Obviously, a guy who had to be a taxi driver to supplement his FSB income is going to look at the world differently from someone who lived his whole life in luxury like your "moral" president Biden.
And so they're not going to provoke a nuclear confrontaton.
Like you're complicit and funding the war machines of Azerbaijan in Armenia and Saudi Arabia in Yemen? Oh right. Not to mention your own war machine.
Behave badly. Jesus Christ, the nerve of a guy living in a country responsible for millions of deaths in the past few decades. I don't expect these career criminals to stop abusing their power. I hope that Russia and China will smash Western hegemony so that they can't abuse their power as they do now.
So yeah, you're defending the right of your tyrannical government to get in the way of commerce between private parties in order to advance its nefarious geopolitical interests. And so your comparison with a boycott of the groomers at Disney was completely misplaced.
It'd be funny if China turns into a """"""""democracy""""""""""" like your Empire (though with less running over old ladies with horses), and you have to struggle to find another excuse to sanction and destroy the country.
Cause I believe in your good intentions, and that for you it's not "sanction China so we retain global hegemony". I don't believe in the good intentions of the leaders who have deceived you.
Why are you promoting homosexuality and child abuse?