• Zacryon@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    “17-Nov -22 Russia is not considering using nuclear weapons - Kremlin says.”

    How threatening.

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      1 year ago

      If you speak Kremlin, that’s their way of saying that they want us to think that they are considering using nuclear weapons. It’s the younger-sibling-on-a-road-trip’s “I’m not touching you” of nuclear threats.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting point. Sadly, I don’t speak Kremlin. Are there good reasons or past experiences which support that it’s “the younger sibling”?

        At first, taken for itself, this sounds to me like the usual nuclear de-escalation talk and not the other way around.