Quote (ferdia @ Jan 26 2023 01:55am)
Is this topic not against JSP rules ?
i am just wondering what would happen if someone made a similar topic entitled:
"Which City In America Will Get Nuked First?"
surely this is inciting violence ?? The rules on this site sometimes baffle me.
What, do you think we're treating the subject of the potential escalation of the Ukraine war into a nuclear conflict with too much callous disregard? Ignoring the potential for the current hostilities and brinksmanship to wind up getting millions or billions of people killed or even end human civilization?
Dear me
In other unrelated news, CIA spokesman Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an interview today in which he dismissed any potential for peace talks with Russia under any conditions. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba echoed that and said Ukraine now wants fighter jets and longer range missiles, and deputy defense minister Vadym Skibitskyi suggested they could use them to attack the Kremlin. Meanwhile in Russian media, top Russia-1 pundit and party mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov declared that "Not using nuclear weapons is a dangerous trend. We have a superiority in tactical nuclear weapons. Why have them if we can’t use them?", saying the only possible answer to NATO escalation is Russia escalating in turn, and that nations sending tanks are in a de facto state of war against Russia.
Now back to my regular old prognostication, I'd say that Russia still has some degrees of conventional escalation that will take place before this conflict really blows up, mushroom cloud style. As I said early on, Russia had the potential to start targeting electric/gas/etc infrastructure to cripple Ukraine, and they conspicuously neglected to do so throughout the conflict. Until they did, and did so methodically and across the whole country. Well I also pointed out they haven't been leveling city blocks and blowing up civilian apartments en masse, and one or two strikes that did hit civilian houses made all kinds of headlines, demonstrating that its not being carried out in the same overwhelming fashion as their strikes on infrastructure. That would likely be the next avenue. Then we'll see the long awaited conventional military surge as the roads become passable, so they probably have reason to wait and see how that turns out. If it starts becoming a costly stalemate, I doubt Russia will have much patience to bleed off troops indefinitely when they could just kill ukrainians en masse to save Russian lives, or even potentially Ukrainian lives in the grand scheme. Same rationality that went into Hiroshima after all.