Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
  • Temple Square@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s difficult to know how seriously to take this. Putin is the king of crappy posturing. Making constant threats to get the allies to act more slowly responding to him.

    He also knows that we know that:

    1. Much of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is inoperable due to neglect

    2. He gets to light up ONE nuke, and then Russia is forever over. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the world has a post-nuclear breakup plan for the country.

    So, I’m confident that Putin won’t actually nuke anyone, as even he isn’t that stupid. Moving moldy Soviet equipment around makes great posturing and makes us fear him a little bit.

    • TomHardy@lemmy.ml
      21·
      1 year ago

      Much of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is inoperable due to neglect

      I wonder, how true is that and based on what is everybody so certain? I’m sure Russias economy is weak compared to USSRs and they allocate less resources now to sustain stuff, but has anyone actually seen the vaults? For example, this is what a Minuteman III in Wyoming looks like:

      This was open to tourists, but shouldn’t that then even look somewhat decent as it should be polished for display? Looks pretty much like the NYC subway. And all I know is that Russias metro looks new and is renewed on many occasions. Just saying😂Something makes me think this is western projection…