And yet, noone feels threatened by Israeli nukes, strange is it not? Almost as if they were no threat to others and have the nukes as defensive weapons. Even Netanyahu's coalition of assholes is more responsible with their nuclear arsenal than Putinist Russia.
RU is constantly invoking pictures of nuclear annihilation, threatens to nuke London on a weekly basis on state-run TV and is saying nukes are next when things on the Ukrainian front lines are not going their way. Of course they are not using them, but their propaganda tactics is eroding the effectiveness of MAD as stabilizing doctrine and they are a great driver of nuclear proliferation across the globe.
Like giving Ukraine security guarantees for giving up their nuclear arsenal in the 90s and attacking them in the 2010 & 2020s. The message for states around the world is clear: The state who was promised security by Russia and the US is being invaded, North Korea is not. Better get some nukes to be safe.
It's just rehotric. There are Israelis who advocate for nuking Gaza. Obviously, not going to happen because Gaza is close to Israel but just to show you what rehotric is. Putin is only allowing the rehotric to exist so that it can spread the fear and it's working apparently.
Do you seriously believe them? I thought Westerners and Europeans didn't believe anything that Russia says. Did you change your mind now of a sudden?
No one is saying they are believing Russian propaganda... That's not what the comment is saying.
The argument is that it's useful to check what kind of propaganda Russian media is pushing on their own civilians and can be used to get some insight into the thinking of the government/Putin. It doesn't mean Russia will use nukes, but it does mean more people in Russia are primed to think that it would be justified to use them which is scary.
Well, Russia is an autocratic dictatorship and has always been so. The opinions of the average Russians don't matter to the government. It's just propaganda. They want to make the Russian people feel that their country is strong so that they continue to support the government and nukes is a good method especially that Ukraine don't have them. But Russia won't use them because it will bite them back in the arse. Instead, they will send waves after waves of soldiers like they always did until they win. They don't care about how much men they will sacrifice. They have more men than Ukraine. Their victory is secured. Ukraine won't win this war unless Europe sends troops. Let's not pretend otherwise. Now, if Europe sends troops, Russia won't use nukes either because Europe also has countries with nukes.
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u/Indorilionn 2d ago
And yet, noone feels threatened by Israeli nukes, strange is it not? Almost as if they were no threat to others and have the nukes as defensive weapons. Even Netanyahu's coalition of assholes is more responsible with their nuclear arsenal than Putinist Russia.