Agreed. The threat is almost as powerful as the weapon, which I suppose is the point. Man if I could go back in time and meet Oppenheimer I would smack that motherf***er in the face.
I'm not sure what you are getting at I'm afraid. The bombs, or the people?
Point was the Russians in Donbass would experience fighting that the Russians in Russia wouldn't. I think.
I thought the idea was that there would be no war, because destruction, as it were, was assured. Mutually.
Unless you had a team talk before kick-off and everyone agreed not to play their star weapons, I don't see how it would not be nuclear war, because you would assume that the other side was about to use them on you.
Of course the same could be said about those who spend hours on a certain forum (not mentioning any names) but have never been involved with the running of a Premier League football club.
Not sure the point. If they are not a member of NATO, article 5 does not apply. If they are it does, and given that we are obliged to go to war with anyone who starts on a NATO country, that would be two nuclear powers at war. In that case a first strike would be the only way to 'win' the war, which would result in a counterstrike. It would happen within minutes of war starting.
If troops/planes from a Nato country fight directly with Russian troops, then unfortunately it does boil down to nuclear war or no war. Militarily there is no in-between. Unless you count proxy wars using non-nato countries like Ukraine, which is what we are already doing by giving them weapons.
Hope so, but everything he has said so far has been almost the polar opposite to reality, so it's hard as a pessimist not to see this as a tacit admission that he plans to attack Poland.
I reeeeeaaalllyy hope you are right.
My concern with all of this is that we (as the west) are painted as aggressors in the eyes of Russians who cannot see what is actually going on because of media control. Are we not just enabling Putin to position himself as 'protector of Russia against the whole world who is against us', a bit like they do in North Korea?
I don't have an answer to the problem. It's just an observation. Honestly I don't see an 'off-ramp' to this conflict, as the Americans would say.