• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    I’m sure you’re right.

    How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?

    • Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      There IS a full scale war going on. 31,000 confirmed dead Ukranian soldiers, and up to 120,000 dead Russian soldiers. We don’t even have a good idea how many civilian deaths, but the total death toll could be as high as 500,000.

      And no, before you start - Mutually Assured Destruction isn’t “a full scale war”. Its Annihilation of both sides, and has no precedent in the history of war.

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          3 months ago

          Putin can’t even hold his own territory. I don’t think even he would open another front by attacking a NATO member even if the west started greenlighting their weapons be used in the incursion.

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          3 months ago

          If Nato got involved directly Moscow would be leveled in a month.

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      3 months ago

      We already crossed many times their “red lines”. This is just the good old “China’s Final Warning”.

      They are already barely managing to slowly advance against a single foe, which is still transitioning between the old soviet warfare ways toward NATO’s one, with far less soldiers, I doubt they would ever hold against the full alliance firepower.