Re:Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as director general of ...
by lotusmars on Friday July 15, 2022 @01:24PM
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Why even discuss MAD or nuclear when Putin gets what he wants without it?
Germans finance his war efforts with billions of euros and drag their feet on arming Ukraine.
Europeans generally pressure Ukraine to surrender.
Why risk it? Just wait, time is on his side.
The reference to MAD makes sense only in the context of foreign armies (and with the M only those of major nuclear powers), but if you look at the two immediate predecessors of the modern Russian Federation (the USSR and the Russian Empire), both fell without a foreign army entering the capital, and are hardly unique in history in doing so. And to the extent status as a major nuclear power is relevant to that, the USSR had it just as much as the Russian Federation does.