When he threatens nukes it means he's scared.
He'll never use them, not that he can make that decision unilaterally anyway. He wants to have a legacy, not be the guy forever remembered as the reason Russia got turned into a radioactive wasteland.
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Call me naive but i think even if he goes to push the button either someone else will stop him or the guy who actually launches the missile wont do it. AFAIK he doesnt have a launch button, but a "ok to launch" button, and theres a surprising history of people refusing to do so even when ordered.
Not to downplay the severity or anything, putin is a madman the world is better off without. Im worried he'll continue his warpath, but not worried he'll destroy the world if that makes sense.
Yes, agreed. It's critical to set a precedent at this moment in history that threatening nuclear war as a way to support imperial land grabs won't be tolerated by the international community.
He was also ready to take Kyiv in three days. He's not that bright.
I can see it now.
Nuke America
....
Most Nukes don't launch
Three detonate in silos. Controls failed and more radiation than boom.
12 have nav failures and land in Ocean
Three land in Russia just from probability. Kill a goat or two.
One hits Sweden on its way over. Mountain disappears. ...
5 boomer subs open launch Bays to fire. Rapidly sink.
10 others attempt launch, get a torp from a following Seawolf.
30 odd surface and say they refuse to fire. We get a few great movies from it
Wait until Russia nukes China because of bad navigation.
Something Something end if ze world
Sounds like something somebody who could fall off a roof would say.
Joke's on Putin. Half the pop of the west is already tired of living and would welcome an/the end.
You're saying there is a chance I won't have to go to work? Well ok then!
I'd like to sign this petition, please.
This, but unsarcastically.
Does he know how fast he would be turned into radioactive dust if he starts a nuclear escalation with the US?
He definitely does. This is all the same pointless posturing.
IRC a more realistic scenario is that they do an airburst strike (limits fallout) above an unoccupied (no civlians left) part of Ukraine as a show of force. Official Russian doctrine:
They think this will bring their enemies to the table.
I honestly don't think it will, after all the atrocities they've committed. More likely, they'll be fully ostracized, the west will give Ukraine even more weapons, Europe will enter the war in Ukraine, and the US will come with a conventional but devastating response.
Yeah, at the very least there would be more funding going to Ukraine
Christ... this shit again? And again? And again and again and again?
If I had a nickel for every time these russian parasites spewed hot sewage air and it got tagged as "newsworthy", adding yet more noise to the goddamned constant feedback loop, I could have bought myself some nice noise-cancelling headphones already.
Oh look, Pooty is signalling to his western plants to start raising the alarm of nuclear war. Jokes on him though: most of the West were never exposed to the horrors of nuclear war outside of hiding under desks to simulate how to die graciously.
@lusterko IMHO 1/ Putin says s*** 2/ Even if such nuclear blackmail was to be taken seriously (and it can hardly be when you see all the allegedly "red lines" we've crossed since march 2022), defeating Russia would still be worth it for there's no possible nor acceptable future with Putin's regime.
Here's a summary of some of the nuclear threats Russia has made over the past few years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_risk_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
For example:
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that some Ukrainian military commanders were considering hitting missile launch sites inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range missiles. ... "What does this mean? It means only one thing – they risk running into the action of paragraph 19 of the fundamentals of Russia's state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence," Medvedev wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "This should be remembered," Medvedev said. Paragraph nineteen of Russia's 2020 nuclear doctrine sets out the conditions under which a Russian president would consider using a nuclear weapo ... Medvedev made specific mention of point "g" of paragraph nineteen which deals with the nuclear response to a conventional weapons attack.
Obviously, the more they keep threatening to use nukes, the less credible these threats become.
well yeah, because no one wants to use nukes. mutually assured destruction and all that
This says to me that Putin believes US troops are as much an existensual threat to him as nukes are.
big, scary regime supposedly in the middle of an "offensive", but they squeal like a little thief trapped in an outhouse
@lusterko Just think, to destroy russia all it would take is two missiles, one for Moscow and one for for St. Petersburg. Most of the rest of russia lives in the Stone Age and don’t even have toilets or washing machines.