Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia is technically prepared for a nuclear war, and that should the US send troops to Ukraine, it would be regarded as a considerable escalation of the war.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      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.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    8 months ago

    Joke’s on Putin. Half the pop of the west is already tired of living and would welcome an/the end. I know I would. So bring it mf.

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    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.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-warns-nuclear-response-if-ukraine-hits-missile-launch-sites-2024-01-11/

    Obviously, the more they keep threatening to use nukes, the less credible these threats become.

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    @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.

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    big, scary regime supposedly in the middle of an “offensive”, but they squeal like a little thief trapped in an outhouse

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    Does he know how fast he would be turned into radioactive dust if he starts a nuclear escalation with the US?

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    @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.

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    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.

  • misk
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    Fortunately for us, his penis is to small to do something that could endanger his position as head of mafia.