We.need fewer nations.with nukes, not more.
In a perfect world. Perhaps. But the world is far from perfect. Man is envious. He wants what he doesn’t have. China wants Taiwan. Russia wants Ukraine and most of Europe.
Russia invading Ukraine has demonstrated the advanced weapons of the West are very effective. They are down to using older tanks because the newer ones were destroyed. They dare not put the newest most advanced Russian Tanks on the Front. They can’t afford to lose them. The same is true of fighter bombers and helicopters.
Thirty million dollar airplanes are falling to half million dollar Surface to Air Missiles. That’s why the war has devolved to a slugging match of Artillery and trench warfare. They can’t afford to send the remaining equipment to the front.
Russia can do this while their agents and willing accomplices try and undermine public opinion to reduce or cut off supplies to Ukraine. Russia knows that Ukraine can’t invade them. And if NATO or others invade the Nuke option keeps them safe from real threat.
The same nuke threat keeps Russia losing tons of money every day. Russia could use Tactical Nukes to win the war. But they know that results in retaliation. And retaliation means all out nuclear war.
It is the nation state equivalent of everyone having a gun. If I pull my gun and start shooting everyone pulls theirs. I won’t get out unscathed.
It is called MAD. And it is. It is Logical Insanity. You don’t dare pull the trigger unless you are willing to die. The more people that have guns the better the chance that someone will pull the trigger. But at the same time the more people who have the guns the less likely anyone will threaten others. Unwilling to risk the everyone shooting scenario.
We realized it would be easy to take the gun away. So we created the idea of the nuclear triad. Bombers to attack the enemy. Land based missiles as our immediate response. Submarine based missiles to insure nobody could pull a Pearl Harbor and win on day one.
The Submarines use Doomsday tapes. If no contact is received from base for a few days. They launch automatically. They don’t know who is responsible for starting the war. They may not know where the missiles are targeted. They just know that Duty demands they fire.
The idea is just about the time the enemy starts to crawl out of the rubble the second strike slams in. Destroying anything that was missed. Killing the survivors of the first strike.
I personally think this is inevitable. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
