My understanding is China reminded them of their policies on nuclear escalation.
The threat wasn’t to attack. It was more of a warning, saying that if NATO was to step onto Russian soil he would use them.
Nuclear weapons are basically a defensive weapon. You never aim to use them but you have them as a deterrent. No country wants to mess with it or test whether a nuclear nation would use it
To do so is suicide, both to call their bluff or to use the weapons. So you get into a state where militarily no one can do anything (except wage a war in a country that doesn’t have nuclear weapons).
That’s kinda the purpose of nuclear weaponry. To use then it’s basically game over for everyone everywhere.
I am starting to heavily consider the option that this account is a bot. Look at his history
Every post is a question starting 2 days ago. There are some replies. Hmm… worth considering.
I didn’t know. Seems to be a teenager interested in computers and feels they are fighting a war against bots.
You did not guess right
Welp, happens. Where do you get so many questions from?
This is a statement a bit would make.
(Reading your post history, was very not bot like. Stay safe out there.)
You did not guess right
P.S. LOOK AT HIS HISTORY!!! OoOoOoOh…
Because they are no longer scared of losing.
They stopped the counteroffensive and the west is cooling on the whole support for Ukraine thing. They think they can win this now.
And unless we do something, they could very well be right.
He figured out that his military had no intention to die for his dick measuring contest.
If I remember correctly it was always the clown Medwedew who threatened to use nuclear weapons and throw them on London or some other bullshit, but never Putin directly
@labbbb
Are you a person or a bot?
I’m Mark Zuckerberg
A- I like your wit.
B- I really appreciate this comment because it taught me that if somebody edits their comment Lemmy will also retroactively change the comment notification to the edited text as well (when I saw it originally it was before your edit so the message said “I am an internet person” but now shows your Zuck joke)
He finally got an accurate inventory and found out all of the delivery systems and most of the nukes had required components sold off by the commanders
I think they weren’t ever going to use them because they know they would get nuked in turn. Once it became clear the bluff wasn’t working, makes you look weak to use a threat and not follow through.
Plus many of them are so poorly maintained they likely wouldn’t launch anyway. Missiles have a lot of upkeep
While this may well be true, Russia has so many nukes and nukes are themselves so destructive that it’s kinda cold comfort even if 90% of them fail
Read “The Butter Battle Book” by Dr. Seuss…
