• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What if Putin just screams, “nukes nukes nukes!”? Should everyone immediately capitulate, thereby ensuring every other country in the world chases nukes for leverage?

        • Dutczar@sopuli.xyz
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          3 months ago

          Hasn’t he threatened to use nukes multiple times over the war already? Ignoring the threats generally worked out.

          • Natanael@slrpnk.net
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            3 months ago

            His problem is nukes can only be used as a last resort when your country already has started to fall, otherwise you will trigger your own country to fall quite soon after (retaliation strikes, sanctions, fallout, riots, etc)

            So nobody will take it as a serious threat in response to anything less than a major attack on the capital or equivalent.

        • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          OK, but I still don’t really get what this has to do with the original comment. I think it wasn’t really the right place to put this.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Using nukes is a cry for desperation by Putin, and that would look bad for him for the Russians and for the rest of the world.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      He tried that, and it’s suspected USA sent him a picture of a nuke with the coordinates of his secreted bunker written on it, with “you die first” below