— Musings —09.21.2022 09:02 AM
In yesterday walks tomorrow
The people saying Putin won’t ever use nuclear weapons are the same people who said he wouldn’t ever invade Ukraine.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 21, 2022
— Musings —09.21.2022 09:02 AM
The people saying Putin won’t ever use nuclear weapons are the same people who said he wouldn’t ever invade Ukraine.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 21, 2022
Warren,
True, I’m one of those people. But MAD assures it will likely never happen. To wit: in 60s and 80s when the order to launch was given in response to “incoming” ICBMs, in one case, a major and the other a captain defied The Kremlin and refused to launch a retaliatory strike.
I think if he gives that order… his staff will put him in the ground. That is the only reason it hasn’t happened yet.
Sean,
Absolutely on target and that’s why he’ll never, ever do it. That would be the Russian Federation committing suicide by NATO riposte.
We should take his words seriously.
Gilbert,
That fucker is a coward through and through. He only has the balls to attack pipsqueaks like Ukraine or Georgia. No offense meant to them.
I would just point out that US intelligence agencies quite accurately and openly predicted that Putin was planning to invade Ukraine. Which is one reason why the Ukraine army so successfully repelled the initial push to Kyiv.
I think even if he were to order “only” the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, the troops out in the field would refuse to deploy it and then he’d be faced with either an army-wide mutiny on his hands or a civil war.
Will Putin use nukes? I would say it is hard to snort cocaine of a prostitutes ass in a nuclear wasteland.