Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
I&#x27;m genuinely curious at what point a bully threatening you with MAD can be stopped if you value the existence of your own civilization?<p>Say Russian conquers all of Ukraine and moves troops to the Polish border and parks some tanks a bit inside. What then? Strongly worded essays? If Russia isn&#x27;t raining hell on Poland, then NATO is forced to .. apply sanctions, make threats, but take no action since the escalation and outcome, MAD, is not an acceptable trade for a tank crossing your border.<p>Repeat until arrival at French coastline. The terrorist steps forward waving a trigger to a bomb and either you show him your bomb and threaten to blow yourselves both up, or you step back.<p>At some point, the only option is to call the bluff and give him a good punch and hope that he values life as much as you and won&#x27;t actually detonate. It has to be a solid one but not so hard as to make him think you might kill him, as that would make the detonation a certainty.<p>I don&#x27;t know that NATO has the guts to give Putin that bloody nose.