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No one is launching nukes. Stop letting the news terrorize you.
What?
Did you forget about all the stuff with Putin likely being terminal and that's why he took the risk to invade Ukraine?
If that psycho is really dying, and his last wish is to bring Ukraine back to Russia to rebuild an empire...
Eventually he'll win or he'll use nukes.
He doesn't give a fuck about anything except his legacy. If it can't be for unifying Russia, it'll be for going out for n a blaze of "glory".
You're forgetting a lot of nuclear armed countries are being run by insane people.
And yet he still won’t use them
You're right, and additionally he can't just decide to use them unilaterally. Launching those nukes would take a bunch of egotistical, self-centered sociopaths all deciding to commit suicide together.
Or it just takes a chain of people that have been watching Russian state controlled news since they learned to walk.
The people at the top making these decisions don't believe the propaganda.
Thankfully, not even Putin can launch missiles on his own. For one, I wouldn't expect him to even know how.
There have been nuclear scares before, and the goodness of man has often prevented them. Famously, during the cold war, Russian computers erroneously detected a US missile launch, and despite being ordered to retaliate, Stanislav Petrov correctly deduced it was an error and did not launch.
Happened in the US too. A NORAD computer basically said "they launched the nukes" but it was actually the moon.
Great, now we're relying on the professionalism of the Russian army for survival
Oh, great. Thanks a lot for your reassuring words.
The difference is that unlike Ukraine, the West is entirely capable of making enough Russians hurt in retaliation that even if Putin survives the exchange he's looking at going the way of the Romanovs once the survivors outside the bunkers get to him.
A nuclear exchange on that scale would kill 300 million people instantly and another 5 BILLION over the next decade.
Nobody wins.
Yeah, so when nobody wins, neither does Putin is my point
That's a stupid take, russia lied 2 years ago but now we should believe them?
Nuclear war! nuclear war! nuclear war! we heard it since 1980 or even before.
You can't use it, and nobody is "invading" russia. Maybe we should and remove those deadly weapons from this child-putin.
Do some reading about near misses during the cold war and see if you keep that same certainty.
And yet it still never happened. The Cold War has only harden my resolve on nukes never being launched.
It gets old listening to the sky is falling rhetoric.
It only gives me more certainty.
With how many near misses we've had, it seems more likely to near miss than to hit