Wasn’t this about the time when all Putin had was shovels and thermo nuclear weapons?Russia threatens 'atomic tsunami' giving nuclear target 'three days' to 'swim'
Vladimir Putin has been urged to launch a four-megaton nuclear strike on the UK - in the form of a man-made tsunami - if Britain and the West continue to arm Ukrainewww.irishstar.com
and having to use chips from refrigerators and dishwashersWasn’t this about the time when all Putin had was shovels and thermo nuclear weapons?
Ah OK.That's an old threat/story. Even though the date on the article is recent it gives the PM as Boris Johnson.
What do you want to happen in this scenario?Yeah, yeah, we know-it's only rhetoric and empty threats. Russian nuclear weapons don't work anymore anyway: it says so on X and Youtube.
So it will never happen. Until it happens.
Vladimir Putin warns west he will consider using nuclear weapons
Comments are strongest yet against allowing Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russian territorywww.theguardian.com
Yeah, yeah, we know-it's only rhetoric and empty threats. Russian nuclear weapons don't work anymore anyway: it says so on X and Youtube.
So it will never happen. Until it happens.
Vladimir Putin warns west he will consider using nuclear weapons
Comments are strongest yet against allowing Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russian territorywww.theguardian.com
What do you want to happen in this scenario?
I'm of the view that we might as well get it all over and done with.What do you want to happen in this scenario?
And you're a 'psycho' if you don't acquiesce to the bluff because the stakes are so high?i think Putin's bluff ultimately wins because the stakes are so high. There's no room for error and anyone claiming they are 100% sure he is bluffing is wrong. No-one can be more than 99% sure of what's going on in his head. Or even 75% sure.
That could be read two ways.I'm of the view that we might as well get it all over and done with.
And your a 'psycho' if you don't aquiesce the bluff because the stakes are so high?
Nobody needs John Bolton type hawks I agree, except perhaps the arms manufacturers.I suppose I was imagining a room full of John Bolton type hawks.
But if you're prepared to call the bluff I'd say that was quite out there. It either means you're excessively, unreasonably confident or such a risk-taker that you're a danger to others.
But then any bully with enough nuclear capability can then demand whatever they like upon that basis.I suppose I was imagining a room full of John Bolton type hawks.
But if you're prepared to call the bluff I'd say that was quite out there. It either means you're excessively, unreasonably confident or such a risk-taker that you're a danger to others.
But then any bully with enough nuclear capability can then demand whatever they like upon that basis.
Yes-that's the whole idea.But then any bully with enough nuclear capability can then demand whatever they like upon that basis.
End of history but not how they meant it.Despite all the hubris at the time, the 'victors' totally fucked the end of the Cold War, due to an over-confidence in their favoured doctrine of neo-liberalism, which they seemed to believe had the power to overcome all serious conflct, domestically and internationally.
Little more than 30 years later we see a possible all-out war in the Middle East and the very real threat of a nuclear exchange, if not full-scale nuclear war. And that's leaving aside all the avoidable international bloodshed in between. Meanwhile, societies in the European capitalist heartlands are riven by irrconcilable conflicts, the very real threat of ongoing ethnically-based civil conflict and the rise of the most serious fascist movements since the end of WW2. So serious that the liberals are co-opting some of the neo-fascists into the established order. And all this against the backdrop of a climate crisis that looks to have gone beyond any human solution-and which can only add fuel to the fire of the domestic and international crises.
Well then it's an impasse. 'You' can only calculate how much risk you are willing to take. How much concession you are willing give. That's where we are.Yes-that's the whole idea.