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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's exactly the point. Why would Russia send nukes if it knows it'll be destroyed in retribution?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They know they can get a few off if they sacrafice a few Russian cities. Which Putin does not care about. He'll watch them be vaporized if he thinks he can land a death blow on any major western powers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why not just launch them now then?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The poster said he would sacrifice a few cities to take down a western power. He could do that now.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The criteria given by the other poster for Putin to use nukes is currently met. So using their logic, he should launch them now. I'm asking why he doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The criteria given by the other poster for Putin to use nukes is currently met. So using their logic, he should launch them now.

Necessary criteria isn't the same as motivating criteria.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

No the criterion is a war between NATO and Russia. That criterion is not met.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yep depends on how much fear and hatred Putin has for the west and how much he actually cares about his own people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Because assholes gonna asshole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

"Russia" as a whole wouldn't want that. But there's only one guy in charge of everything.