However I think you underestimate the depravity of the mis-leaders of the US and their NATO vassals. I think they are willing to sacrifice also the lives of their own people, just as they have sent half a million Ukrainians to their slaughter.
I think they are also depraved enough to risk a nuclear war and think they might "win" by going into bunkers, seeing most people die and emerging in a nuclear wasteland.
I don't know about how it is where you live, but in the NATO country where I am I see that the government has been quietly polishing up emergency laws, and refurbishing government war bunkers and building new ones. At great expense.
The bunkers that would be needed by millions and millions of citizens in a war? F-all been done.
They believe they can use tens and hundreds of millions of lives as sacrificial pawns.
Do not underestimate their depravity. You are thinking like a decent and alogical person would think about the strategy here - the war has been lost, it has to come to an end. But these are not decent or logical people.
Look here at the 2nd to last table:
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
Option 3: Withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Option 4: Investing in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk perceptions
And the conclusions and last table.
At this point....they are one by one, taking the high risk options, and many that are deceitfully labeled as "moderate" risk, but which in content of applying them to a nuclear armed country that is focused on defensive action, are in fact high risk.
These are very sick people and they don't mind sacrificing their own populations .
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However I think you underestimate the depravity of the mis-leaders of the US and their NATO vassals. I think they are willing to sacrifice also the lives of their own people, just as they have sent half a million Ukrainians to their slaughter.
I think they are also depraved enough to risk a nuclear war and think they might "win" by going into bunkers, seeing most people die and emerging in a nuclear wasteland.
I don't know about how it is where you live, but in the NATO country where I am I see that the government has been quietly polishing up emergency laws, and refurbishing government war bunkers and building new ones. At great expense.
The bunkers that would be needed by millions and millions of citizens in a war? F-all been done.
They believe they can use tens and hundreds of millions of lives as sacrificial pawns.
Do not underestimate their depravity. You are thinking like a decent and alogical person would think about the strategy here - the war has been lost, it has to come to an end. But these are not decent or logical people.
Look here at the 2nd to last table:
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
Published Apr 24, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
Option 3: Withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Option 4: Investing in new capabilities to manipulate Russian risk perceptions
And the conclusions and last table.
At this point....they are one by one, taking the high risk options, and many that are deceitfully labeled as "moderate" risk, but which in content of applying them to a nuclear armed country that is focused on defensive action, are in fact high risk.
These are very sick people and they don't mind sacrificing their own populations .
I have covered many of those topics in other articles. Have a look!