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2024-05-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Madman's strategy. Will Donald Trump bomb Moscow?

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Posted by badanov 2024-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 There is nothing crazy about Trump's strategy. For the longest time it was held that Russians could kill thousands of US troops, as they did in Korea and Vietnam, but the reverse would trigger a Russian nuclear first strike. Then Trump killed hundreds of Russians in Syria, and **crickets**.

The issue for Putin is that his nuclear trigger is attached to a metaphorical shotgun pointed at his own head. Pull it and the ensuing retaliation kills him and his entire clan. Hitler wasn't, in principle, against gassing people. Hence Treblinka and Sobibor. Fear of retaliation in kind kept his chemical arsenal untouched, except against civilians who could not retaliate. For much the same reason, Putin is unlikely to authorize a nuclear attack on a nuclear state with good early-warning systems and a robust counterstrike capability - a finely-honed sense of self-preservation

Posted by Zhang Fei 2024-05-30 12:45|| 2024-05-30 12:45|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as Vladimir looks nervously at the sky, the statement serves it's purpose.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-30 13:50|| 2024-05-30 13:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Reagan tried, missed and hit the Berlin wall.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-30 16:35|| 2024-05-30 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump will hit them economically in a way that Biden couldn’t because he is corrupt.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-30 16:40|| 2024-05-30 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump will hit them economically in a way that Biden couldn’t because he is corrupt.

Trump said he'd send ballistic missile subs to the Baltic Sea if the Russians made any more nuclear threats. Flight time to Moscow? Single digit minutes. The point was to emphasize to Putin that if he nukes the US, he will join his fellow Muscovites in a gigantic funeral pyre.

I've never been convinced that any other US president would try to kill every last Russian in exchange for a Russian nuclear strike. Trump is the exception. When he said the US could win in Afghanistan by exterminating its people, it's clear that the thought had occurred to him as a live option, but the level of offense (3,000 dead on 9/11) made such an option unacceptable to most Americans. But tens of millions of dead Americans? With apologies to Halsey, if that occurs under Trump, Russian will be spoken only in hell.

Most US presidents are New Testament, turn the other cheek leaders. Trump is one of the few exceptions, an old Testament leader.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2024-05-30 17:45|| 2024-05-30 17:45|| Front Page Top

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