How often do you hear Xi talk about nuclear weapons? Elements in the Communist regime practice “wolf warrior” diplomacy and make hysterical threats, but Xi remains generally restrained.
Compare that to Putin who can’t stop talking about Russia’s nuclear capabilities. That’s not new. Khruschev’s fake madman act at the UN onward, Russian leaders kept talking about their nukes to cover up their overall military weakness.
In the MAD era, nukes are not an option for anyone except suicidal fanatics or those convinced that their enemies are so weak that they won’t retaliate. Or they’re a giant bluff.
How do you spot a bluff?
“To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries, and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal,” Putin said in a Wednesday address.
“It’s not a bluff,” he added.
When you have to say it’s not a bluff, it’s a bluff.
Putin isn’t, despite what the media says, nuts. Under enough pressure, he might escalate to potentially using a battlefield nuke on the ground, but considering the limited tactical viability of doing any such thing, even that seems unlikely. Despite the hysteria that’s been going on now for 7 months now, there’s no nuclear war between us and Russia, nor is there going to be one.
Nor are we in a war with Russia. At least no more than Russia was in a war with us when it helped our enemies.
The only reason Putin keeps talking about nukes is because Russia’s military is weak, its economy is a mess and it’s the only card he has to play.
And he can’t actually play it.
That puts him on par with Biden who talks big but then has nothing to back it up with.
This phase of the war will play out, however it plays out, leaving little in its wake except local misery. Amid all the propaganda from both sides that has thoroughly saturated the conversation, it’s best to remember that the impact on us remains purely economic.
The economic part is due to Biden’s reliance on the same failed sanctions strategies.
The war should have been purely decided on the battlefield in Ukraine without inflicting economic misery on Americans and Europeans. By cutting off Germany, Putin has already detonated his economic ‘nuke’ sending energy prices skyrocketing. The backlash may end up reshaping German and European politics, and has at least convinced some of them to back nuclear energy again. And maybe that’s the real fallout from this war.
Wars often have unintended consequences.
And if we can secure cheap nuclear power again, that will be a big victory whatever happens on the battlefield.
Nuclear would be a great option … but when you consider how the Bleep Americans have managed everything else …
… I would expect them to pay the Chinese …
… buy fuel from Russia …
… install power plants in Muslim countries …
… and make sure the diversity hires have no idea what the phrases ‘passive cooling’ or ‘containment structures’ … etc. … actually mean.
I’d love to see some toxic masculine Navy engineers run things and supervise the ‘children’ … but I’m expecting Chernobyl.
… everyone have a great weekend!
G-d bless
we already buy fuel from Russia
Putin bluffs because he’s bluffing people that want to be bluffed. The West will fund corrupt governments and not do anything decisive letting the situation smolder because that is what the West wants. Putin is simply providing further encouragement.
Decisive would not mean a direct confrontation in this case but it would mean not settling.
Germany is not going to allow nuclear energy to happen I feel, That doesn’t fit the plan.
If Ukraine goes out they went out the right way. Let the survivors survive if that’s what they want to call it.
Doubtful they’ll survive as nation states recognisable in anything but name.. Like the EU states which for some mad reason Ukraine wants to join.
Ukraine wants to join the EU because, as stated another rumble galzov video (full length one) the route to a one world government ruled over by the UN is to create massive regional governments, the EU being the biggest most incompetent example. The Ukraine president anoint is a globalist WEF clown.
Yes I know that but that’s probably not how the people spending their lives to defend their country see it is it?
I think Putin brandishes his nukes to ward off China as much as those who support Ukraine. A collapsed Russia would be convenient and relatively free source of raw materials for China. China needs to acquire more land, and Russia is right next door. Putin doesn’t trust China anymore than Stalin trusted Hitler.
How far will the left push its misanthropic agenda? Everything they do is detrimental to humanity. Will those pulling the strings keep pushing until something snaps? Their support of Iran’s quest for nukes suggests that hatred of America over rides what little common sense the American left possesses, and we know that common sense doesn’t survive collectivism to begin with..
The ends justify the means was born in delusions of total power. The nihilism invoked in this license to commit evil will die in the evil means to malignant ends.
Now, there’s a good point! Thanks true!
Well, that’s nice but what’s pertinent is that malignant ends will take you along with them just as happily.
I don’t see a true separation between means and ends in the great anti-ethic. It is evil synergy at its most fully integrated. Curiously enough, or perhaps not at all, the Satanic commandment, “Do as thou wilt” is quite compatible.
I’m the world’s worst player when it comes to reading bluffs. Some people bluff too much, then just when I think I caught them they happen to have the goods.