40, Poly-Panro-Ace It-Thing | friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™)! Nuclear energy enthusiast. Engineering appreciator. Transhumanism enjoyer. Sci-Fi reader. Winged caniform bipedal warforged magitech cyber-lich in its dreams.
All I’ve got to tell her is,
Golly gee whiz, girl, it almost sounds like you MAYBE would have been a lot better off if you STAYED THE FUCK OUT OF UKRAINE.
When (OR IF) you do get out, do yourself the biggest favor in your pathetic loser life and DON’T COME BACK.
Gee what a shock.
Color me surprised with a marker that is BONE. FUCKING. DRY.
the problem with relying on “mutually assured destruction” is that it requires presupposing rational actors on all sides. But when an oligarch starts to accept that their adventurous life of debauchery, decadence, violence, and obscenity in all three realms is no longer going to continue, i don’t think they even CARE about how anyone else feels or whatever happens after they’re gone.
so, yeah, i think they WOULD in fact nuke europe. Possibly even chuck 'em at every NATO nation because they keep beating the dead horse of claiming that ukraine is being puppeted by NATO.
It would be nice if it turned out that whoever is sitting in the missile silo command centers has better morals than the scum fleshwastes who are in charge, evading armageddon via conscientious objection AGAIN just like that one time a radar malfunction over the northern arctic almost caused russia to preemptive strike the united states back during the cold war but for ONE DUDE who decided he wouldn’t make the call that could end the world.
it’s lowkey akin to a narcissist’s ‘extinction burst’. they’re losing everything so they blow up and burn it all, shrieking incoherently from their quivering ball of white hot impotent rage “YoU mAdE mE dO tHiS!1!!!11one!1!1!1”
EDIT:
BUT FOR REAL, ALL THAT SAID, I don’t even really disagree with you THAT much. Because if it IS a rational actor, they probably WOULD decide as you predict…
… IF a rational actor x.x
… The “leadership” in Russia is so incompetent and malevolent they might just launch nukes out of spite. They’ll hide away in their bunkers in siberia and tell each other, “if we can’t have the world, then no one can.” If Hitler could’ve caused the entire eastern seaboard of the United States to spontaneously melt into radioactive glass at the push of a button, you must realize that he would push it right before shooting himself.
Well they can listen to my voice when I say this:
no thanks