Kikapu wrote:Few weeks ago I made a statement that weapons from NATO countries will continue flowing into Ukraine until there won’t be any need for Ukrainians for such weapons against Russia. Maybe some took that statement as being that these weapons will eventually help Ukraine win the war against Russia, hence not needing anymore weapons. In actual fact, what I meant was, that there won’t be Ukraine as we know it to need anymore weapons because right now, if there is one candidate country which is likely to be nuked is not the UK or the USA, but Ukraine to end this proxy war between Russia and the West in Ukraine. There will be no downside for Russia nuking Ukraine and no down side for the West since it has already been decided that NATO/Russia will not engage each other directly over Ukraine.
From time to time us humans need to be reminded what damage Nuclear weapons can do since most of today’s generations has no idea about Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 80 years ago, so, perhaps Ukraine getting nuked in one or two places will save the planet of such disasters and save many millions of lives going forward for another 80+ years, just as the justification the Americans made by nuking Japan back then. Most definitely far more people will perish if a nuclear war was to break out between today’s nuclear power countries than Russia nuking Ukraine to stop the possibility on nuclear powers going at each other first. Zelensky had a choice to make before the war started to prevent it, but chose not to, so now, he and his country needs to take responsibility for trying to bite more than he could chew. The rest of the world should not pay the price for his stupidity. He may choose to emulate George Custer’s last stand against the overwhelming force against his country, but then he must also accept his defeat. Russia will not continue to stay in this fight in Ukraine forever and then walk away empty handed. Ukraine will be made to pay the price no matter what!
I don’t agree that the Ukraine will be nuked because Russia has other conventional powerful bombs they can use if the goal were to flatten Kiev or Lviev, as well as bombers that can carpet-bomb.
Also, the Ukraine borders with Russia and Bellarus so it’s not the smartest idea nuking your next-door neighbor, unless of course you can control the direction of the winds!
I think nuking is reserved for powerful enemies that are also nuclear powers that can strike back, and who are also responsible for the military buildup in the Ukraine, like the US and the UK.
If I were Russia these are the two I would be eyeing to nuke if the war was drugging on too much and I was getting anxious to finish it.
But I do agree about Zelensky being 100% responsible for all of this, but unfortunately he is under the umbrella of the criminal US which instigated all of this, and unless the Russians can get him in a strike either in Kiev or Lviev then he’ll probably never face justice.