In a strong, new warning to the West, Putin said Wednesday that any nation’s conventional attack on Russia that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.
The threat, outlined in a revision of Moscow’s nuclear doctrine, was clearly aimed at discouraging the West from allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with longer-range weapons and appears to significantly lower the threshold for the possible use of Russia’s nuclear arsenal.
That's what they say, but I see something else. I think that the TOFF's boss may have finally realized that his much-vaunted military has been hollowed out by many decades of corruption and stagnant leadership. Even their self-proclaimed deterrents may not work. Russia has never adapted to more modern ways of fighting and that is why the Ukrainians, who did adapt, stopped Putin's three-day campaign to conquer Ukraine and have continued to do so. The only way the Russians have been able to make any progress is by their ancient tactic of throwing soldiers into do-or-die assaults. It may be leading to high levels of casualties unseen since the Korean war.
It is a hollow threat. The Russians have to know that a nuclear attack on a NATO nation would be answered in kind in very short order.
And then it would be game over for us all in a matter of hours. Even the über-rich wouldn't have time to flee to their bunkers. The aftermath would make Fallout look like a garden party.
The West gets vapors when Vladdy rattles the nuclear sword. Such a tragedy that Ukraine hasn't been given what was pledged. Rumors are that Kerch bridge is crumbling by itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7n8MIhpdUI
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying we might not get our hair mussed, but if you're saying his deterrence and strike capacity is on parr with the rest of his military I agree
ReplyDeleteIndia, South China, Asia, Indonesia as with all the equatorial and middle latitudes are rapidly become uninhabitable due to the anthropogenic atmospheric disruption and all those that can will soon migrate north into whatever claimed but otherwise empty lands they can
I mentioned this somewhere, maybe here, at the onset: what pooty has done is pull the last jingo stick, kicked over that one domino, that initiates the end of the old world order. G'ma taught us to look for silver linings: we have the pleasure, the privilege of watching it unfold in motion painfully slow ...