It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Yeah, because they've been "made aware of" that the Allies had a huge stockpile of chemicals weapons as well and would use them if the Nazis started using it.
If Russia starts using nukes, then Ukraine likely just has to ask for any weapon system that's not banned by any convention or treaty to receive it.
If Russia uses a nuke then the west and NATO will have to respond. China probably will as well. Otherwise it opens up the pandora's box of nuclear terrorism and blackmail. Russia can not be allowed to use one to try and blackmail Ukraine and the west at all. The US has made it abundantly clear on a number of occasions to Russia that if they use one there will be serious consequences.
The state of some of the weapons being handed out to the newly mobilised is....not great.
They will, but i think by giving Ukraine basically every weapon they want, barring direct aid.
China and India will very likely cut any ties to Russia, they can currently still weasel around with arguing for talks and compromise, but that goes out the window the second Russia drops nukes on Ukrainian troops.
Then Russia is isolated from any country that could make a difference, which means that keeping this war going conventionally will be next to impossible, while Ukraine might also start receiving aid from not just the west but pretty much every country.
My main argument against any interference from the west is the simple fact that i don't see how this is going to end.
Nato troops in Ukraine push out Russia - then what?
You have Nato troops on the border to a nation that Nato is at war with which already has shown their willingness to drop nukes.
At this point, the next logical step would be to go on the offensive and actually overthrow the goverment in Russia to end the threat for good, but that would mean giving Russia every justification to use their entire nuclear arsenal.
The only way i could see this going well if every country around the globe heeds the call and throws their weight behind it, but even then you'd still need the tech to intercept or disable any nuclear launches on Russia's side, just in case the russian military is willing to carry out the orders to use strategic nukes.
The disposables won't have a 0% mortality rate. Before that they are a source of warmth, after that strip the bodies and create layers of clothing. Repurpose them further and you solve the problem entirely. They ARE sending fresh food.
You just have to act like someone who is dangerously insane, has just been released from prison and told "Bad guys that way, go have fun."
Coincidentally, Russia has already done just that.
Imo the point of the fake referenda isn't to use nukes, it's to let Putin send conscripts into Ukraine since by Russian law they can only be sent inside Russia during times of peace, and he still hasn't declared war.
He knows Ukraine isn't going to stop attacking even after he declares Kherson and Zaporizhia and Donetsk Oblasts are now part of Russia. So it's put up or shut up.
What’s going on in China? Apparently Xi Jinping has been placed under house arrest.
Not confirmed by any western media so far but interesting developments vis a vis China and Russia’s relationship.
FFS
Nukes wont be used by Russia because there is no one to use them on
Putin WANTS Ukraine, not a poisoned unfarmable wasteland known as the "Ukrainian exclusion zone"
that leaves NATO, which, is a murder-suicide pact, and if that were Putin's goal, he would have kicked that hornet's nest months ago.
the nukes threats is mostly in the hopes that he can get the most isolationist groups some political power since both the US (Nov 8th is just 45ish days away) and the UK (new PM is trying to consolidate power) could turn on a dime politically, and without that military supply, Ukraine goes from fighting and winning, to occupied insurgency hoping to one day be free again.
"Law and Order", lots of places have had that, Russia, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.
Laws can be made to enforce order of cruelty and brutality.
Equality and Justice, that is how you have peace and a society that benefits all.
"Law and Order", lots of places have had that, Russia, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.
Laws can be made to enforce order of cruelty and brutality.
Equality and Justice, that is how you have peace and a society that benefits all.
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.