• Ball Thrower
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    122 years ago

    Doubt. Possible the US will bomb the country, but nuking it? Nah. That’s suicide. But even bombing the country is just a waiting for retaliation. First, the US would have to destabilize the RF even further to where any threats of retaliation are meaningless and hold no weight. A sort of Iran situation, where Iran was under oath to not use or create nukes. They would first have to drain out Russian resources enough through the current conflict and slowly amp it up over time. Of course I’m no war professional but it just seems like something the US would do. The US is a blood thirsty monster but it wouldn’t use nukes as the population of the US is not warmed up enough to the idea of nukes being “safe” and will “never harm the US in return” and will wait after destabilizing the whole of Eastern Europe beyond this already existing destabilization.

      • Ball Thrower
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        72 years ago

        Using nukes would also piss people off because it would endanger Americans.

    • @Shrike502
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      12 years ago

      threats of retaliation are meaningless and hold no weight

      Unless of course they’re counting on retaliation being either impossible (due to USA’s missile defences) or not happening due to capitalists in Russia being unwilling to go that far. After all, if the world burns, so do their money and power.