Russian leaders has been yelling about their nukes since I was a kid.
I can honestly say that I don't care anymore. Like, either launch them or shut up about it. It's just tiring now.
Same. The thing is we have nukes and they have nukes. One cannot let more or less useless nukes dominate the discussion. Similarly Russia cannot even beat Ukraine. What do they think will happen if they go up against NATO.
nukes are basically zero sum except tactical nukes and dirty bombs
tactical nukes escalate all the way to strategic anyway and dirty bombs don't work
The modern tactical nuke is as strong as what the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People have this idea that a tactical nuke is 'small', but what is really the case is they are full sized nukes, and strategic nukes are simply larger. From a MAD perspective, there is no reason why dropping a nuke the strength of what was dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki would somehow be notably different than a larger nuke.
tacnukes were obsoleted by DPICM and later PGMs
Tactical nukes aren't real. They start an escalation ladder that gets you to global thermonuclear war in a few hours. Using a "tactical nuke" is just laying naked your intent to have things go nuclear while giving your opponent a chance to respond.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy wanted to nuke Cuba. The joint chiefs told him that if he wanted to do that he would also have to nuke Russia in a massive fully committed first strike.
I wasn't?
Since when are we listening to whatever the fucking CIA says as if they were the good guys/ on our side?
edit: That being said, never trust anything Putin's boasting about either
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