Russia amps up nuclear threat.

  • JesusSon@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago
    1. Use tactical nukes in Ukraine
    2. get sanctioned out of existence/bombed back to the Paleolithic era
    3. ???
    4. Profit
    • cygon@lemmy.world
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      I believe the idea is:

      1. Mention nukes and grab everyone’s attention
      2. Run social media campaign (“oh noes, <insert undesirable politician or ideology> is leading us into war with nuclear power, they bad”)
      3. Have bought politicians and lobbyists push to reduce sanctions or block additional sanctions
      4. Profit.

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      But increasingly, I see step 2 fail and people simply hate the guy more for his destructive megalomania, as they should.

    • qooqie@lemmy.world
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      He won’t just fling nukes to Ukraine. If he’s going to do that he’s going for much more. He also doesn’t care if 95% of the world suffer from the nuclear fallout

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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        “Nuclear fallout” in modern nukes is isolated to the area they hit. As such, modern nukes aren’t going to irradiate the atmosphere that would lead to a Fallout video-game style world.

        What they will do is kill a f*** ton of people and thermally destroy a specific area REALLY hard. If you’re in the blast radius, you won’t even know it. You’ll be dead from the shockwave so fast you’ll have literally less than a second of confusion before you get turned into meat mist.

        • Gsus4@mander.xyz
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          when you say modern nukes, do you mean simply H-bombs/thermonuclear/fusion bombs?

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          And who says Russia will use “modern” nukes?

          We’ve already seen rusty museum pieces on the front line in this conflict.

        • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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          Is that true? :o I thought the way nukes irradiated the atmosphere was through all the dust and shit thrown up during the explosion being blown around by wind currents? Has that changed with new nukes?

          • Urist@lemmy.ml
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            More worried about this triggering an ice age and subsequent global failure of what crops remain.