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I feel like in the basement of the Kremlin there is a room where Putin built a fort out of Nukes, hung up a No Girls Allowed sign and now him, Kim Jong Un and that idiot from Belarus are inside of it playing and once or twice a day they open a little sliding door just big enough so you can see their eyes and they make threats and then slam it shut and go back to playing all secure behind those nukes.
Have you tried... like... dunno... providing everyone with a toilet instead? For a good start? >

They have.  That's the reason all the soldiers were taking toilets in occupied Ukraine.  It's an awfully expensive way to provide toilets though. >

They stole toilets? >

They stole toilets. >

Note to self; I should leave an upper-decker if I’m ever fleeing a Russian invasion. >

Easy to announce.  Not so easy to implement. Seems like the “announcement” is probably the entire plan here. >

Step 1) announce new weapon
Step 2) have a press conference where a diagram of said weapon is "accidentally" photographed
Step 3)
Step 4) look more tough again
So Russia is -roughly- 50% there, or 60%-75% depending on how tough they ALREADY look >

Insert “spend the little money they do have and 10 years developing the weapon leaving no money to produce it” in there and it will be golden.
Every new weapon system they’ve boasted about has had a couple of prototypes built, and then actual serial production just breaking single digits.
Half of their SU-57s are prototype models converted to serial production specs. >

And all of them sent to Siberia where they're nice and safe and not in harm's way... Bc they're so combat capable... >

The threat of using a weapon has a greater impact than using the weapon itself, and that’s the one thing Russia understands because they been doing that for the last 20 years.
Granted that will only get so far and that’s why nobody really sees their “5th gen fighter” as a threat because they know Russia will never use it. >

Well, in this case, no one worries about Russia using one of their maybe-half-dozen modern fighters. >

Umm, how?
They can't even make the basic supplies for their soldiers, but modernizing their nuclear forces is doable? >

Version A: Their entire military is based on weapons that destroy half a continent so they didn't care about everything else
Version B: Corruption >

Version C: They just make it up. >

the effects of making it up is hilarious when you take a step back.
Russia: "... and you see we- we have super high tech AI nuclear cannons! take that western capitalists!"
Biden: "mother of god, get me in touch with the DoD, tell them they're getting another 10 trillion"
and then twenty years later the US shows up to the battlefield with their gundam/death star hybrid just to face off versus some cardboard cutouts >

Ironically the us did this to Russia with the fake star wars program.  Russia supposedly spent themselves silly trying to create an anti missle defence system based on space lasers because they thought we had them.... >

The US has weapons in space and it's naive to think otherwise. We've had satellites with capabilities to capture and reel in other satellites with moveable arms for literal decades. In all likelihood those satellites were used to change out the tritium in nuclear warheads since it has a half-life of around 12 years, on top of spying on other countries spy satellites to see what they have onboard. >

Totally. Star Wars didn’t fail, either.
Also, the US sabotaged Iranian nuclear production systems with stuxnet…like…20 years ago now. Still the most advanced known cyber weapon all these years later. 
We’re the reason the North Koreans have struggled with rockets and nuclear “fizzles”.
I’d bet anything the US has sabotaged most other countries nukes and I’d bet they can shoot down whatever does make it out of the launch tube. >

I wouldn't take that bet >

I feel like that may be the actual case, but there are no odds good enough to make me want to take a bet with such high stakes. >

Like it will resolve their problems... They really don't understand anything. >

They do. The only thing holding NATO back is the nukes otherwise they'd be getting rolled over right now.
From their perspective cranking up the number of nukes and delivery systems just makes the stakes even higher for anyone to go after them and makes it less likely to happen. 
Based on how NATO countries have responded to a possible nuclear exchange I'd say they are probably correct. >

This is such a Russian propaganda line, NATO is a defensive alliance ffs. The only thing NATO would “roll over” is whatever Russian forces were in Ukraine, and even that’s unlikely. 
Russia has nothing NATO wants except a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine. >

NATO members are supporting the defense of a sovereign nation against a foreign invader, the remnant of the superpower which NATO was established to defend against.
Anything that happens to Russia as a result of Ukraine is the fault of Russia and Russia alone. Don't get upset when the bullied kid's big brother teaches him a bit of Krav Maga and offers tips on the opponent's blind spot from the sidelines. >

I'm not arguing the right or wrong of anything.
I'm explaining NATO is currently operating outside the immediate defense of its member nations based on its own self interest in eastern Europe.
That tied into why Russia wants nuclear weapons to deter NATO. They want them because they work to deter NATO otherwise NATO would be in Ukraine right now.
I deal with objective reality. Spinning shit for particular narratives is not useful to me so I'll leave that to other people who deal with reality that way. >


I'm explaining NATO is currently operating outside the immediate defense of its member nations based on its own self interest in eastern Europe.

NATO isnt doing anything. Its members are. And the "self interest in eastern Europe" is literally its own security. >

From the perspective of Europe, yes. Shutting down Russia expansion west would be in their own security interest. >

Yeah, because overtaking sovereign narions, even those not in NATO, is heavily frowned upon. Imagine instead Rissia expanded east to the point of encircling China. Pretty sure not in China's best interest to be surrounded.
Just what the fuck is the point of your reply...
NATO members are free to do what they wish, if Germany was to attack Russia right now, NATO as it is would not be compelled to join, even if Germany itself got overrun because the fact is that Germany was the aggressor. >

The point of my reply was to explain why Russia is doing what Russia is doing and their motivation for doing it.
I didn't claim NATO members couldn't do what they wished. In fact I claimed the exact opposite where I stated they were operating in their own self interest outside of a NATO nation.
People are upset because I'm not engaging in cheerleading emo bullshit. Which is frankly not my thing and I have no interest in it. >

A kid with a knife can bully others and be scary. But the day will eventually come when rest of the kids collectively will beat the fucking kid to unconsciousness and will not be sad if he actually dies after it. Maybe only french will, because they are a bit fucked in the head. >

More like the bully has a hand grenade, and so do all the other kids. And they're locked in a tiny room together. >

Also there are kids outside banging on the door demanding that they also should be able to have grenades. >

I mean, if one of the kids with a grenade gets out, the kids outside are tucked without one. Shit analogy tho, the people who pull the levers of war face no consequences of pulling them >

With WHAT? xD >

Meanwhile back in reality Russia is reportedly stripping existing nuclear armed ICBM’s to repurpose as conventional explosives! I guess they were running out of terror weapons to lob at Ukraine to make it seem like Russia is still fighting a war, rather than brutally losing one. >

How long till they blow up another Nyonoksa village in their attempts to 'modernize'?... Lol! 
Maybe it's time to modernize your government instead and toss that loser Putin. >

Hey Russia - here is a unique idea - instead of trying to conquer the world through your pathetic military and threats of global nuclear destruction, how about you instead focus on running your own country really, really well, so that your neighbours want to trade with you, and join clubs that you start, and citizens globally immigrate to your country to learn and build things that further the human race. 
That is the only pathway to greatness in the modern world. And if you can't do that, your leadership needs to get out of the way and make room for people who do, because somewhere in Russia there are people who could pull this off. >

Russia cares for nothing of this, Russia only wants powers and strengths for future childrens of the iron federation.
Russia is best country on planet, we donts needs trades or peaces if you donts like you can fuck off back to sons of Blyat /s >

And than what, you have no army, no logistics, no moral,… but you have nukes,….. talking about One Man War. >

The real question is whether they actually know how to use them. In order to further clarify their position it will become necessary to perform a nuclear test >

I say go for it. Waste more money on a weapon you are most likely never gonna use and leave you soldiers barely armed and short on resources. Definitely the sign of a master tactician. >

How are they note broke yet? Financially >

That doesn’t matter for internal purchases. It’s not like they are gonna buy nuclear weapons from other countries… you need zero money to build a house if all the workers work for zero, and all the materials can be extracted from your own land. >

They need components that are not home built. >

That’s a different story. However, they were able to make nukes 50 years ago, and I doubt they were buying components from abroad then… so, what changed? Sure ya country the size of Russia can build everything (other than high tech) inside. And nukes are not high tech, again they had them 50 years ago. >

That was also when they had top scientists, engineers and robust manufacturing.  Those days are gone now. >

Modernize nukes? They can't even give their soldiers uniforms that aren't dated for WW2! >

I also plan to put on 50 pounds of muscle and learn four new languages.