A cavalier attitude
Bozo is saying how much better he would handle it.
“I listened to him constantly using the N-word, that’s the N-word, and he’s constantly using it: the nuclear word,” Trump told Fox Business on Monday.
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“We say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power,’” Trump said. “But we’re a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built …”
Idiot. It doesn’t matter whether we’re “greater” or not because a nuclear exchange with Russia would mean millions of people dead, whole cities destroyed, survivors if any poisoned and helpless.
“You should say, ‘Look, if you mention that word one more time, we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast. You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these, these thousands of people die.”
No, that is not what he should say.
When Trump was in power, in 2018, he announced that the US would withdraw from a cold war nuclear weapons treaty which kept US and Russian nuclear weapons out of Europe. It duly did so.
Very. bad. move.
In office, Trump also demonstrated a cavalier attitude to diplomacy regarding North Korea, another nuclear power.
Though he courted the dictator in Pyongyang, Trump also told Kim Jong-un he had a “much bigger and more powerful” nuclear button and would answer any threats “with fire and fury like the world has never seen”.
He also asked the rapper Kid Rock and rocker Ted Nugent what he should do about North Korea.
It’s a mistake to give clowns access to the nukes.
Wait. Isn’t this the guy who was withholding weapons from Ukraine unless they came up with dirt on Biden? He would have held Putin’s coat so he wouldn’t get blood on it.
would
Though clown-car physics would allow a much higher number of MIRVs in a warhead.
I’ll see my way out.
Clowns use cream pies. Give him a year’s supply of cream pies, and invite him to throw them at Russia from Mar-a-Lago. Tell him they’re nuclear cream pies if you have to. He’d be busy, shut up and let people work, and the rest of us would be happier (though not truly happy because…well, Putin).
There has been a very large number of people in the scientific, engineering and related communities who have made a contribution to the arsenals of the nuclear powers. In a bizarre kind of way, many if not all of us owe our very lives to them, because but for nuclear weapons we would likely be up n the count to World War 5, 6 or 7 by now; never mind merely World War 3.
Armageddon and its ever-present possibility has set the limits on the behaviour of the players in international politics to date, which includes the behavior of power-seekers as varied as Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and so far, Vladimir Putin.
But this present situation has a very dangerous aspect to it, in which Putin faces an existential crisis of his own, and of his own making. He appeals for domestic support not just to traditional Great Russian chauvinism, but to an ever-dwindling population of Russian supporters of his program to become the truest heir to the mantle of Joseph Stalin.
Marina Ovsyannikova, the heroic Russian TV worker ran completely counter to Putin’s program in the Ukraine.
Putin has bombed and strafed himself into a corner in Ukraine, and perversely, uses that threat as a prop for his own survival. Ukraine’s resistance has surprised him. With Russia increasingly divided, and globally isolated, there is no way for him to go except down. But as he does so, he can take a considerable part of the world down with him, and perversely, use that threat as a prop for his own survival; as best he can.
I have no doubt that if Hitler had had a nuclear button in his bunker in Berlin, he would have used it out of spite against the Germans, whom he saw as having ‘failed him,’ and against the rest of the world, dominated as it was in his view by inferior races, and those in their thrall. As reality dawns on Putin, he may well start thinking along the same lines: ‘If I can’t have a career in the Kremlin, I’m certainly not having one in that hellhole they call the Lubyanka.’
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https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-anti-war-protest-state-tv-was-hooliganism-2022-03-15/