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0 pointss1artibartfast4y ago0 comments

How close would you let your enemy put a knife to your throat before stopping them?

The best way to avoid a knife fight is for two people to stay far apart. If you keep getting closer to someone with a knife, you shouldn't be surprised when you get stabbed.

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credit_guy4y ago

But Russia has thousands of nukes, and that's not a secret. Russia knows that nobody would dare attack them, ever. And the rest of the world knows that too.

The whole thing about Russia feeling "threatened" is just total BS. Putin just knows that in this day and age you need to play the victim, and lots of people instinctively would take your side. It doesn't matter how absurd the claim is.

s1artibartfastOP4y ago

MAD is a defense against complete invasion, but not a defense against strangulation via power projection.

Non nuclear military projection matters because not everything is a nuclear war. They are encircled by the US which has invaded and toppled more regimes than any other country in the world, and destroyed or destabilized several Russian allied countries in the last 2 decades alone.

It still matters where bases are.

If it comes to nuclear war, it also matters where bases are.

credit_guy4y ago

> strangulation via power projection.

Cool metaphor there, but exactly what do you have in mind? Let's say every single neighbor of Russia becomes a NATO member, how does that strangulation via power projection work?

Or in our concrete case, let's say Ukraine becomes a NATO member, who is going to threaten Russia, and how? Preferably in more concrete terms, rather than metaphors.

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credit_guy4y ago

But Russia has thousands of nukes, and that's not a secret. Russia knows that nobody would dare attack them, ever. And the rest of the world knows that too.

s1artibartfastOP4y ago

MAD is a defense against complete invasion, but not a defense against strangulation via power projection.

It still matters where bases are.

If it comes to nuclear war, it also matters where bases are.

credit_guy4y ago

> strangulation via power projection.

Cool metaphor there, but exactly what do you have in mind? Let's say every single neighbor of Russia becomes a NATO member, how does that strangulation via power projection work?

Or in our concrete case, let's say Ukraine becomes a NATO member, who is going to threaten Russia, and how? Preferably in more concrete terms, rather than metaphors.

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