• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Moscow would respond with Nukes

    Yes even if it was just Ukraine doing it and yes even if they used entirely their own homegrown tools to do it.

    Everything about Russia’s geopolitical strategy is about either strengthening or defending Moscow (just look at a map of major transit ways in the region).

    Literally any direct attack on that city would be seen as an instant validation of every most paranoid delusion of the aims of this war, and Moscow would be as close to turning the keys as it has ever gotten.

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      6 months ago

      The picture is about all those red lines Russia had and were broken. Maybe check the picture again instead of making up yet another red line.

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      6 months ago

      In Germany we would say pech gehabt.

      Wich means basically fuck you.

      When they do it they literally first strike, wich would mean the end of the fucking world in a literal sense. Nobody would have anything from that.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        And attacking Moscow might be exactly what motivates them to stand up from the table and shoot everyone else before themselves before the cops can get them

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          6 months ago

          Thats absolutely not how shit works, start a first strike and everyone shoots back. These rockets fly for some time before hitting anything… Nuclear weapons in general are absolutely idiotic ideas. They are basically humanitys self destruct mechanism.

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      6 months ago

      A nuclear strike takes many skilled people, working together to make it happen. It’s not just a guy or two with keys and guns, like in the movies. Those skilled people must have suicidal convictions and the willingness to die, horribly and anonymously. Who in Russia has the power to convince others to do that? No one, because like so many of so many other nations, the love of luxury, power and money is far preferable to death. You seem to be fantasizing about nuclear weapons in the hands of bold and merciless super men who some how survived the Cold War and have no fear. There are none.