More or less as much as the burst of Santorini, roughly - 7 gigatons. Nearby Cyprus was partly damaged, the whole island was covered with slightly radioactive volcanic ash, but, Cyprus culture survived, they had built new cities over the layer of volcanic ash, and they even kept their sea domination, and only two hundred years later their civilisation, culture and language were destroyed by ordinary men with swords and spears.
I can't find that reference, but no matter, Santorini would not spread radioactivity like a nuclear war.
You don't have "unbiased" news channels at all. Nobody has. All people lie. "Human's tongue have two sides - one for lying and another for hiding truth".
Understandable based on Russian media. US. media is biased, but if you watch both sides you can determine the truth.
It's not the only "sacred cow".
Israel is the only one I know. Name more.
As I said - its quite acceptable losses (at least for Russia), hardly more than those of traffic accidents. Ukrainian losses much more larger, but also still acceptable (for the USA).
Not for civilized, educated, intelligent and moral people.
Russian lives matter. We saved much more that we had lost, and we are going to save more.
I disagree. No one is threatening Russian lives, unless they start a nuclear war.
And what if I'd denied that there are Democrats in California?
I could prove you are wrong
I do understand why you don't see Nazies where they exist (because you media don't show them for you, and even when they show you prefer to turn your blind eye on them).
As I said - I don't believe neither in Dark Wisards and armies of zombies, nor in "evil dictators" and "armies of brainwashed goons". Nazism is a natural posture for European. It is their nature. Hitler wasn't an evil wisard, who enslaved the whole European peninsula by a sort of a devilish dark magic. No. He just gave ordinary Europeans permission to do what they always wanted to do. No more, no less. Yes, after it we gave them a lesson. But they learnt nothing, and they want to do now what they failed to do eighty years ago.
In my schooling we learned that after WW1 the "victors" punished Germany severely, so much so that a nationalistic speaker like Hirtler could get the majority to rebel against the sanctions and limits on military strength. The Germans got caught up in the nationalism and the rest is history.
There are a lot of gifted and highly respected Blacks. Does it mean, that there is no problem of systematic racism in the USA?
Racism isn't as bad as it used to be, we work with people of all colors realizing that anyone who can do the work deserves respect. Republicans are "colorblind". Democrats like to play their "race card" and call it DEI.
A lot of mass murders of ethnic Russians in Central Asia in 1990s.
About some of them you can even read in Wikipedia.
But most of them were totally ignored by the western media.
Those massacres were not by NATO, so your justification for the invasion is nonsense.
Ordinary official discrimination. Ban of Russian school education, status of non-citizens, destruction and blasphemy of Russian graveyards and monuments and so on...
After the invasion I wouldn't blame them if they deported Russians. They can't trust them.
Of course you do. If you consider Odessa Massacre as a trifle, if you really believe that Putin is that immoral to start the war for no reason, that generals are that incompetent to believe that they can take Kiev in 3 days without Army, and Russian soldiers that brainwashed to go to certain death without hesitations... Yes, in this case you thought about Russians as "sub-humans".
Odessa was a riot between pro & anti Russian rioters. It was not a "government sponsored massacre". Ukrainians wanted to be free of Russian rule. Yes Putin is immoral, yes Russian generals overestimated their power, or underestimated the Ukrainian military. Either way Russia could not capture Kiev, not in 3-days, 3-months, or 3-years.
Yes. The point is, that our claims are not false. And as, in fact, we know situation in Russia and Ukraine much better than you - we know why all those (and much more larger) losses are totally justified.
Its up to Trump and Putin to set the stage for peace. I don't know why you are so concerned, with the satellites and spies we both have nothing bad could happen in Ukraine without Russia knowing it and threatening nuclear response. There is no reason to continue the war
Of course I watched the movie. What is even more important I've read "Red Alert" by Peter George, the book, that was used for scenario, I've read the books of German Kahn (starting with "On the Thermonuclear war" and finishing with "Thinking about unthinkable in 1980s"), who was the prototype for Dr. Strangelove, and I do read books of Russian think-tanks, like "From Deterrence to Intimidation".
It demanded the genius of Kubrick to make the anti-war comedy from rather calm and reasonable techno-thriller. Read books, kyzr, they are useful.
But yes, even in the movie there are pretty nice episodes, like a short presentation of two possibilities.
The 1960s on had Hollywood scared about nuclear war. Even knowing that there were a few close calls where we were very close to war not even counting the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm surprised you are so well read. I see I need to catch up. I have another old movie clip that isn't as funny as Dr. Strangelove. This is what I think of when you say nuclear war is "winnable". Moscow and NYC destroyed, not even counting all the other cities...madness.
