they're actively trying to make sure that everyone dies in a nuclear holocaust.
I was with you until this. Stop with the idiotic nuclear threats already. Every time you do it, you are part of the problem. It's honestly reached (China's final warning)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning] levels. I'm going to start calling that "Antonio's final nuke threat".
If Putin got arrested somehow, Russia isn't going to nuke anyone. They'd just replace him and the new guy probably wouldn't even want him back.
That all said, I have to laugh at this:
Sources at the international criminal court said they thought it was now “very unlikely” that Vladimir Putin would travel to any country currently supporting Ukraine. If he did so he risked arrest, they pointed out. “The Russia president’s travel options have become extremely limited,” a source said.
Oh wait, it's in their little Rome statute: Article 98 Cooperation with respect to waiver of immunity and consent to surrender
The Court may not proceed with a request for surrender or assistance which would require the requested State to act inconsistently with its obligations under international law with respect to the State or diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third State, unless the Court can first obtain the cooperation of that third State for the waiver of the immunity.
Just because you persuaded yourself that nuclear weapons will never be used, doesn't make it a reality. China, Russia and the US would not have spent hundreds of billions on nuclear weapons if using them would be an impossibility. In fact, if a minimal force were enough for deterrence, you'd want your enemies to spend as much as possible on nuclear weapons, while keeping a minimal force yourself. This is not what happens.
Just because you persuaded yourself that nuclear weapons will never be used, doesn't make it a reality.
They will never be used for the reasons you claim they could. They could be used for other reasons.
China, Russia and the US would not have spent hundreds of billions on nuclear weapons if using them would be an impossibility.
China actually only maintained a very small nuke force until very recently, when they began to massively expand it. Pentagon report 11/22 states China currently has about 400 nuclear warheads, and that number could grow to 1,500 by 2035.
The US and USSR (not Russia) spent vast sums on nukes as a Cold War dick measuring competition and for MAD purposes. Obviously no nukes were ever used in over 70 years despite several wars and high tensions.
In fact, if a minimal force were enough for deterrence, you'd want your enemies to spend as much as possible on nuclear weapons, while keeping a minimal force yourself. This is not what happens.
LOL are you serious? That is exactly the policy of China for many decades, until a few years ago. (as well as every other nation besides the US/USSR) China is shifting into a more aggressive posture and knows it cannot make threats while having few warheads. Considering how rich China is now, the expense of the expansion is pretty small for them.
Also, having more warheads gives you a feeling of greater security from MAD, since obviously if you have 20,000 warheads, your ability to ensure the total destruction of your enemy is far more guaranteed than if you have only 20 and the enemy might be tempted to attempt to obtain a first strike capability. Having thousands of warheads means that a first strike is so impossible to pull off that you wouldn't even attempt to plan for it.
Russia is not the USSR. Russia should have greatly reduced its nuke arsenal. It has refused to do so only out of a stubborn refusal to accept how far it has fallen from the USSR times, and clings to its nuclear arsenal as a sort of "prestige" expense that supposedly proves it is a "great power". Russia is going to have to let go of a lot of delusions in the next year or two.
and clings to its nuclear arsenal as a sort of "prestige" expense that supposedly proves it is a "great power".
Also, fun note on the expense front. The expensive part of nuclear weapons isnt the warheads themselves. It is the maintenance on them to make sure they still retain the ability to actually go critical and create the nuclear boom. It is the single most expensive part of the US Nuclear Program. Now consider that Russia claims to have double our warheads...but half of our budget toward their nuclear program. I will let you work out what that riddle means for yourself.
Just when you think the clowns can't get any more ridiculous.
It's very funny until you realize that they're actively trying to make sure that everyone dies in a nuclear holocaust.
I was with you until this. Stop with the idiotic nuclear threats already. Every time you do it, you are part of the problem. It's honestly reached (China's final warning)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning] levels. I'm going to start calling that "Antonio's final nuke threat".
If Putin got arrested somehow, Russia isn't going to nuke anyone. They'd just replace him and the new guy probably wouldn't even want him back.
That all said, I have to laugh at this:
These dumb motherfuckers have never heard of diplomatic immunity.
Oh wait, it's in their little Rome statute: Article 98 Cooperation with respect to waiver of immunity and consent to surrender
Just because you persuaded yourself that nuclear weapons will never be used, doesn't make it a reality. China, Russia and the US would not have spent hundreds of billions on nuclear weapons if using them would be an impossibility. In fact, if a minimal force were enough for deterrence, you'd want your enemies to spend as much as possible on nuclear weapons, while keeping a minimal force yourself. This is not what happens.
They will never be used for the reasons you claim they could. They could be used for other reasons.
China actually only maintained a very small nuke force until very recently, when they began to massively expand it. Pentagon report 11/22 states China currently has about 400 nuclear warheads, and that number could grow to 1,500 by 2035.
The US and USSR (not Russia) spent vast sums on nukes as a Cold War dick measuring competition and for MAD purposes. Obviously no nukes were ever used in over 70 years despite several wars and high tensions.
LOL are you serious? That is exactly the policy of China for many decades, until a few years ago. (as well as every other nation besides the US/USSR) China is shifting into a more aggressive posture and knows it cannot make threats while having few warheads. Considering how rich China is now, the expense of the expansion is pretty small for them.
Also, having more warheads gives you a feeling of greater security from MAD, since obviously if you have 20,000 warheads, your ability to ensure the total destruction of your enemy is far more guaranteed than if you have only 20 and the enemy might be tempted to attempt to obtain a first strike capability. Having thousands of warheads means that a first strike is so impossible to pull off that you wouldn't even attempt to plan for it.
Russia is not the USSR. Russia should have greatly reduced its nuke arsenal. It has refused to do so only out of a stubborn refusal to accept how far it has fallen from the USSR times, and clings to its nuclear arsenal as a sort of "prestige" expense that supposedly proves it is a "great power". Russia is going to have to let go of a lot of delusions in the next year or two.
Also, fun note on the expense front. The expensive part of nuclear weapons isnt the warheads themselves. It is the maintenance on them to make sure they still retain the ability to actually go critical and create the nuclear boom. It is the single most expensive part of the US Nuclear Program. Now consider that Russia claims to have double our warheads...but half of our budget toward their nuclear program. I will let you work out what that riddle means for yourself.