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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
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To be fair, we openly practiced a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in 1983...and very nearly caused a real war.
Empty words, Russia won't fire nuclear weapons unless directly threatened by imminent invasion, a Barbarossa style event.
Firing a nuke at Warsaw will just encourage the whole of Eastern Europe to declare war on Russia which will drag the rest of Europe and then America with it. Sure, Germany and France might opt out, but the UK and US definitely will not, we're the hawks of NATO at the moment, and to be honest I think any nation that rolled over if Warsaw went up in smoke would be damned in history books forever more, if there's anyone around to write them.
Nuclear escalation at this point is
incredibly unlikely, and the media is just whipping up a 'reds under the bed' scenario to encourage people to take a more cold war approach towards Russia because that's where we're going back unless something dramatically changes in the next couple of years.