javajaws said:
MagnumLoad said:
Out of fear of Putin's nuclear threat, we are going to stand by while Ukraine cities are starved and Zelensky and his family are murdered. Nice
You just want to go ahead and launch our nukes first?
And here's the rub. In all scenarios of all out war, America will have to decide if its going to launch a nuclear counter strike.
So lets say Putin uses a tactical nuke tomorrow on Ukraine. What does the west do? 99% chance we do not respond with a nuclear response. Why would they? Someone at the executive branch is doing the math. Ukraine just got one nuke, if we respond anywhere in russia with nukes, they'll launch all of them.
So then it becomes a decision: do you throw the whole world away or just accept russia sent a nuke in ukraine?
Putin is going to show you can get extremely aggressive with nuclear weapons before the west will respond. MAD doesn't work if the other team doesn't believe you will counter with overwhelming force.