“ If they want to end the world, so be it.”

This is not a way rational adults make decisions. I truly hope you are not a voter in any democratic nuclear-armed country.

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ericmay an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You’re not thinking about things clearly. You can’t live as a hostage. Otherwise “do what we say or nukes” until you wind up a slave. Better off dead.

If Russia doesn’t like it they can stop with the dumb threats.

	▲	dmitrygr 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Happy to suggest some books on how cold War was actually navigated by both parties without destroying the planet. Not to spoil the ending, but at no point in time was "if we do this and then they blow us all up, so be it" a strategy

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flyinglizard 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The best way to avoid confrontation is to have an irrational adult at the helm, then all calculated escalation bets are off and you tend to just not play.

	▲	pohl 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We’ve got one of those in the US but it turns out the tradeoffs are terrible.