Will There be a Nuclear War?
Except if nuclear weapons are needed to prevent it No, I don’t hear that in there either. This is a very dangerous situation, and no “doctrine” here guarantees against the use of nuclear weapons. It is exactly for that kind of possibility in that kind of theater that the U.S. developed its “flexible” nuclear weapons policy, “deploying…‘more useable’ battlefield nuclear weapons, specifically for use against Russia and China.”Russia is not losing this war, and is in no position where it has to consider using nuclear weapons. If it needs to use nuclear weapons, it will use them, without bluff, intimidation, or “demonstration.” That’s the American game, and specifically with nuclear weapons. Any way you cut it, the way this war is going, it is reasonable—if not optimistic—to posit a 50-50 chance of nuclear weapons use.
4 months ago
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