It's always the Nuclear Option that opposing nations strive for in order to remain in power and not be overthrown, making sure that conquering or destroying them would be as costly as possible to the point of an Invasion not being a viable option.- if there were no nukes to begin with, the whole geopolitical scenery would be so much different.
The nuclear control treaties are no different than the Washington Naval treaty attempting to limit the number of battleships. And the Washington Naval treaty failed spectacularly in attempting to prevent WW2.
@@davidford3115 Yeah but the Washington Naval Treaty did work. Its just that Battleships after Doolittle sank that WWI German battleship in 1921. Showed Battleships were no longer strategic weapons, air and aircraft carriers were. The only way to compare battleships and nuclear weapons is again have nukes replaced by something more effective and with wider uses than nuclear weapons. So until I guess plasma, anti-matter or space based strategic direct energy/rail gun weapons are fielded nukes are still king.
@@TK199999 If it worked so well, why did almost every power except the US blatantly violate it? In particular, both the Germans and the Japanese created Heavy cruisers (Admiral Hipper, and Mogami respectively) with light cruiser guns that could be easily retrofitted with bigger ones so as to get around the limits? Then you have the fact that the Japanese absolutely lied about the true displacement of their capital ships. In particular, the true displacement of their battleships was 50% greater than what they claimed. Also, it wasn't Dolittle, it was Billy Mitchell who demonstrated the feasibility of air power over capital ships. Dolittle was the Lt. Colonel who led the Tokyo Raid from the deck of the USS Hornet. Don't try lecturing me on military history when you can't even get your basic facts correct.
There hasn't been a great power hot war since 1945 because of nuclear weapons and MAD. After WW1&2 humanity came to the conclusion that they could not win WW3. That's what it took to stop major wars, 78yrs and counting.
@@TK199999 Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) are replacing nukes. They deliver more destruction on the target and cause less collateral damage. Cost less too. No new nukes have been added to the US arsenal this century (just replacements). The peak stockpile for the US was 31,255 warheads (1967) and their current stockpile is 3,750 (2021). Around 1650 warheads are capable of long distance delivery (i.e. strategic). Nukes are slowly going out of fashion as PGMs improve. Not sure but I think this is also true in Russia, maybe their last new nuke was made by the USSR. Russia has certainly manufactured new missiles to deliver whatever warheads they have. They are trying to decommission nukes, not add new ones, same as the US.
Slight correction: The Berlin wall fell on November 9, 1989, not November 8. It was the evening of that day, which is why I only realised on November 10.
Ahh, the tried and tested Kim Jon Un method... With nuclear weapons he can hang on to power or periodically make threats in order to get the world's attention. 😄
He could literally bring Europe and most US states in ashes during his last years, why wouldn't he? I mean, even if russia gets pulverized, he could still leave a world without the US theoretically. It'd be kinda interesting to see how the rest of the world would evolve from there. At least this isn't some alternative timeline thingy since all it takes is one mad leader and a lot of convincing to those that sit at the tables with their keys. Even if the president ordered I doubt everyone would oblige to a senseless firing.
The USA has never grown up. As long as USA continues to threaten countries around the world with aggression, countries will develop nuclear weapons and systems for deploying them. Those that have them like China, Russia and North Korea will expand their arsenals while countries like Iran will acquire them.
Russia's economy is now only the same size as Australia's. Russia sees itself as the successor to the USSR yet they can't afford the massive conventional forces. Most of the Russian equipment dates to the 80s and 90s. No nuclear power has ever been invaded
They still have bodies. They can still kinda keep an air force. Until the moment they run out of planes or can't afford an air force anymore then we can't know for sure if Russia will win or lose. Let's keep hoping for a loss
Yup Ukraine will tell you our something else wait they listened to USA and gave the nukes to Russia ... Ohmg Ukraine is mentally disabled... Good job Ukraine.... You can't be more stupid than that.... Good luck with counteroffensive that's a brilliant idea .... 😳
@@austinbowman6177 you think it matters? If he sees the hammer coming down you can be sure he will press the deploy all nuke button. Either way you slice it you are witnessing the world's last war.
@@jdw-616 it does matter since I'm pretty sure russia doesn't rule a nuclear wasteland. If they do then you have a valid point, but i don't think that's in the interest of any nation.
@@jdw-616 Nah .. he is definitely, and obviously, seriously into his own self-preservation. The guy won't even let someone sit near him at a table. He absolutely knows there would be a devastating retaliation for such an insane act, and even China would immediately abandon him. There is zero chance that he intentionally becomes the author of his own destruction.
@@Crashed131963 Yeah for sure MIRV's are a thing. Most of them will deploy (on average) 5 warheads. Those warheads though, once released, will have a calculable trajectory. I'm not saying that they are easy to intercept, but not impossible. I think the worse problem is the thousands of decoys that can be released, making interception virtually impossible, because without a way to distinguish what is the actual threat, there just won't be enough interceptors to try and hit every possible inbound target.
Well when your losing hundreds of thousands of men on the ground, at a disadvantage in the air, and on sea, you need some type of deterrent. Unfortunately, this is extremely dangerous
@@THE-X-Force You couldn't be more wrong. The US would waste no chance in setting up the perfect stage to justify attacking and invading Russia. Fact of the matter is that if Russia 'loses' this war, they essentially stop existing. They'd get ripped apart entirely and would only remain as Russia in name, if that. And Putin is a smart man. If Russia is not allowed to exist, then no one is allowed to exist. And I don't blame him for that. I'd do the same in his shoes. I would destroy the entire world before letting the country I rule be destroyed.
@@harrietharlow9929 i like how cocky he was when he labeled it as a "special military operation" at first because he thought it would be as easy as cake, lol. I mean, I'm not surprised that he deluded himself though. I also thought the RU army was monstrous compared to most and maybe even on par with the US almost. It probably didn't help that his generals wanted to be praised by Putin by telling him how strong the army is or whatever. I doubt they would admit on being unprepared.
He will never do any full-scale first strike. He knows it would bring an overwhelming and inescapable retaliation. He is clearly very fond of living, and takes his self-preservation so seriously that he won't even let someone else sit near him at a table. _IF_ there were a military encroachment on Russian soil, and there was an enemy division (etc) that could be wiped out with one low-yield weapon, it is within they're doctrine (and "law"), and conceivable .. that _maybe_ .. _MAYBE_ .. if the situation were utterly desperate, he could authorize a "tactical" strike. But, even that is a stretch. Any strike outside of Russia proper would literally be self-destructive.
Correct. And that's my understanding. Without making any grandiose statement, that's fair. The problem is that deterrence worked for 70 years because rational actors understand the stakes. I don't think these people in the Kremlin understand what that means. There is an apparent arrogance from the Duma parliament that they can blast Europe, and nothing will ever happen to them. They would be wiped out in hours for fear of retaliation. At least 400 millions will lose their lives in the process. Sensible, rational people would try to de-escalate but not them. We are not afraid no matter what they do. If they make that crucial mistake, it is over. And it will be well deserved.
Not just maybe. If it's on your soil, you'll evaporate them down to their monocules. To ensure none of their viruses escapes. And as a form of petty retaliation. It's all within everyone's doctorine as long as it's not on foreign soil.
Because they realized that all of their forces were in too poor of a state to be used. The readiness of their nuclear forces is not going to be much better than the rest of the military. Who knows how many of those silos have sat with missiles that have received little to no maintenance.
That is the very question I have been asking since the sinking of the Moskva. Between the Black Seas Flagship and the Admiral Kuznetsov, I wonder if the nukes will detonate in the silo like they did on K-129.
@@davidford3115 They probably won't even detonate. Well the conventional explosives might, but even those degrade. Likely, most of the tritium in Russia's nukes have long half-lived out. And in the process of the nuclear material half-living out, it likely also corroded and degraded the surrounding materials. I'd be surprised if Putin had more than a handful of operational nukes, and probably not a high yield either.
On the battlefield, Putin's military turned out to be a paper tiger. The Russian military has proven to be disorganized and nowhere near as powerful as they told the world they were. Putin has lead his military on a trajectory that will exhaust their capabilities on battlefield for all the world to see and when this happens, he won't be around sharing air with us anymore. Putin is running out of options and never forget, desperate people do desperate things ....
Paper tiger compared to US juggernaut - yes. But given how much problems in the EU military supporting Ukraine has uncovered - this paper tiger still could claw it’s way pretty far.
North Korea, China, Russia, Brazil, Iran are already aligned, they have enough weapons between them to make the west a smoldering memory doesn't matter how you slice it, if you see the loss at the door the deploy all button will be pushed.
@@delonthomas5049 no different than what the west does, and has done. All sin is taken into account with the coming judgement. The American dynasty goes back to Nimrod.
@@delonthomas5049well yes they are destroyed in Ukraine and soon Russia will have no military at all but that dungheap of a country will dissolve into several smaller nation after civilwar. They can’t join other country’s because nobody would accept those psychopath ex Russian people as theyre citizen’s. Well maybe some part of Siperia can join China because China don’t care about human right’s and will just move everyone to re-education camps and they will be never seen again.
The risk has not increased thanks to China & India who were very clear that they do not want Putin to use nukes. Yes, russia will maintain its deterrence capability. US already developed an interception system. We have to develop better weapons and ADA
are you mad ??.. you know China hates the US and the US is saying it will fight China if it unifies Taiwan right ??.. China has the biggest navy in the world and is Russia's ally, .. you know that too right .?? .. and the US has no interception for Russias new hypersonics which change trajectory.. the US can't match them and if they don't have an equivalent how would they develop a intercept system???.. what would they test it on .?? .. think before you make an idiot out of yourself.
India and China would inheret the earth. After USA,Europe and Russia Nuke each other. It will be a bad 2 or 3 decades but humanity will live on. Minus the White Nations
Europe has already started development of sky shield and TWSTR. Both ABM systems, but there is no effective ABM system. And there likely won’t be one anywhere in the world for many decades.
@@_Alfa.Bravo_ the European sky shield is an open architecture. The currently planned systems are from Germany and Israel but can also integrate US or other systems. TWSTR is a hypersonic defense ABM that is jointly developed by Germany and France and likely also others. It’s still in the early design phase. So far Russia only seems to have outdated weapons and I would question that they can improve on that in the foreseeable future.
@@tobiwan001 sadly you don’t need big technology to defeat an abm system, just more decoys and reentry vehicles. Even if Russian hypersonics are just more of the same paper tiger nonsense, they still have the tech to overwhelm an abm system
Personally I think in the current situation the real risk is less the expansion of Russia's nuclear arsenal but if as a result of the war Russia collapses internally (who will the nuclear submarine fleet answer to/have loyalty to for example) making the chances of a nuclear incident (accident, terrorism or deliberate act by a radical leadership) more likely.
Russia will maybe help Iran obtain nukes in return for a handful of pointless weapons for the futile now 10-month long fight for a village in the Donbass. It would everybody else in the region against Russia though.
@@tobiwan001 Iran Have Nuke, Iran Have Hypersonic Intercontinental Missiles , Iran Have 2 Nikola Class Submarines , Iran have 1 Drone Carrier but Never Showed
@@tobiwan001 the first two Nukes, were successfully deliver almost 78 years ago. Why shouldn’t a country like Iran, be able to build their own Nuke with the help of Russia? 🙄 A Nuke just need to be dropped from an airplane.
It’s going amazing , fantastic, a perfect special operation, best special operation of all time. At least, that’s what they’re telling me on Russian state tv 🤣
@@Crashed131963 Yeah, that wouldn't make any sense. I think when he started it he really thought it would only take 3 days and be over with some mild sanctions to deal with for a year or two from the West. He didn't actually think they would have to fight so hard for it. Now, it's not just about a land grab anymore. It's about his reputation and his legacy. It's for those things (plus the land grab) he is willing to make his subjects fight so long and hard for to win.
@@snapdragon6601 it's bad enough a so called superpower can't take out the government of a poor country right next door. People once thought Russia cound roll over west Europe before the war.
And that assumes that they don't detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 instead of launch as they are supposed to do. The issues regarding the Admiral Kuznetsov and Moskva casts serious doubt on the competency of the Russian Nuclear Forces.
By modern trans logic, every final fantasy game that Amano did the art for is a proto LGBTQ+ game. Cecil wore lipstick and eye liner but married a woman and had a kid, Kefka had more cosmetics than a gaesha but still tried to marry Terra. To say nothing of the infamous cross dressing scene from FF7.
@@peter_shadow7559 Nixon was a MURDERER, not much different than Putin……. He planned and tried through 3 years to attack, dismantle and and committed a military putsch against Chiles democratic government the 11th of September, leading to among others thingsc around 10.000 murdered, more tortured and 17 years of a brutal fascist dictatorship….
the USA indeed did threaten to use Nucelear weapons during Vietnam war. Though not as publicly. They employed the so called madman theory, and implied that Nixon is crazy and his the finger on the nuclear button, and so the Vietnamese better give him what he wants. At the same time, nuclear armed bombers circled in the air. In the end, it didn't work and was aborted, but the threat at least was tried.
Cause that’s all he’s got. His armies are not where he thought they were at as the oligarchs he tasked with military modernization decided to make themselves billion dollar yachts
And what is to say that the oligarchs in charge of maintaining his nukes didn't do the same? The Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov makes me question the readiness of Russian nuclear weapons (Bent Spear/Dull Sword).
@@davidford3115 Because unlike all the other parts of the Russian military, Putin didn't hand this off to his Oligarchs. He kept a very close eye on it and it's the one thing that has his full interest. It's not something he's going to put in the hands of others.
@@faelirra So it was Putin's call to supply his military like hobos who found century old weapons, expired rations and body armor and helmets made of plastic and foam?
@@faelirra So, "Trust me bro"? Yeah, that doesn't give me confidence. Do keep in mind that Prigozhin had Putin's full interest, faith and confidence as you describe. How did that work out when it came to the field rations troops were supposed to be supplied with?
Keep yapping about using nukes, it's just proof's how week russia is. The more russian trolls try to scare the rest of the world the more convinced we are you are damn weak.
Let us never forget Wassili Alexandrowitsch Archipow, who refused order on bord sub B59 to launch nuklear torpedo in Oktober 1962 .... if he didn't third worldwar would have started !!!
i'm really scared what happen if nuclear bomb explode I don't want such a world because I love nature, I don't want someone's life to turn into a tragedy
Cos he has no Ace cards left to blackmail europe with! 😅 He said he wasnt bluffing with the threat of using nuclear weapons. Well we shall see sooner or later... He failed by trying to blackmail Europe with an energy cap last year, and his military and Wagner group - have proven to be utterly usless paper tigers! 😂😂
Hate to say it but if winter was gonna be a problem that year but wasn't, does that mean mother nature wanted the Europeans to succeed, or is she gearing up to make it hell on all sides?
@@austinbowman6177 Mother nature is more of an anomaly than a sentient being She-It doesn't make decisions based on choice or favourites 😅 Nukes are a man made thing after all and all it takes is to push 1 red button to unleash hell and Kudos to the aggressor Let's be honest, it's old men in suits who are squabbling and doing the proverbial fighting
@@EAcapuccino ehhh you still gotta take it into account so you don't die of heat stroke. Though the reason i say mother nature is mostly because i don't believe Putin will launch the nuke given how much destruction over a ton of years, meaning a conventional conflict could be the most likely outcome and could drag on until the next winter or two winters. Taking desperation into account it'd be more likely but a general could see sense and stop putin.
@@austinbowman6177 Nah Vladimir Putin is a former KGB agent, so he knows a thing or 2 about secrecy so his government are all loyal to him and him only Highly unlikely they'll be a successful coup like there was with Mikhail Gorbachev I also doubt he'll use nuclear weapons. Again what I said earlier, we shall see
@@austinbowman6177 The UK and Norway both share the same gas field anyway, it's Eastern Europe and Germany who needed to worry about the gas/Energy supply blackmail last year But luckily for them it was a mild winter
USSR fell due to the effects of soviet citizens with influence of external stimuli. So to putin it would be logical to focus the external stimuli as a concentrate and defend against this with even a nuclear consequence
Well because this was ww2. The death toll of the nukes were actually small compared to the 30 million deaths the japanese caused. Also USA was atttacked by Japan. Not the other way around.
I always thought a giant version of a fleshette round with all forms of guidance would make a good missile defense system. The other one is obviously by using satellites to shoot down ICBM's and use the air defenses for the planes and use the Navy to knock any subs out if the water. The U.S. has a worldwide sonar body system and Russian subs are tracked easily enough. The Russian bombers wouldn't stand a chance. What would be the most dangerous IMO is a state like Iran or Russia selling a bomb to terrorists with a the enemy of my enemy is my friend thing.
We are not stupid russian is not that weak as you say they can't defeat Ukraine,we all see the fight is not Ukraine it's the collect west fighting there,so don't lie
So much for peace. I'm more worried about an accidental nuclear war. There have been times when countries thought they were attacked and missiles were almost launched. Sometimes it only took the judgement of one person to avoid a war.
Indeed. The Soviet officers who chose to de-escalate deserve all the praise for their coolness under fire and level-headed judgement of the situation. Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov both deserve recognition for their actions in preventing a nuclear arms exchange. Yes, as an American I CAN praise Soviet Officers who acted with professionalism and honor.
@@piotr2951 Say the guy with an obviously Russian name for his account handle. Pot meet kettle. Now how about you actually debate the merits rather than resort to guttersniping. PS, my ancestry is Lorraine German, from the province of Alsace. which is now French “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
Humans are creatures of conflict. We thrive in adversity and stagnate in periods of absolute harmony and cohesion. It is why when all of our needs are met, we STILL find trivial reasons to fight.
@@davidford3115 I have to disagree with you on this point: what distinguishes us humans above all is our ability to cooperate. Otherwise our ability to communicate, the use of language, would be completely useless. It takes teamwork to hunt big mammoths or to create civilizations. The fact that we also have a very pronounced tendency to wage wars is merely a perversion of our hunting instincts. We are no vegans by nature, so part of us is predatory.
Nukes are useful, I am wondering if they are going to use them in Ukr, they work pretty at speeding up negotiations (i.e with japan) (and looking at Bhakut, Nukes would not be more damaging than artillery). for nukes RU has the Khenzal hypersonic missile, and we have absolutely nothing that can stop it, nothing
Artillery doesn’t irradiate and takes weeks to destroy a city not seconds. Nobody is gonna negotiate after a nuke. Had the Germans bombed England with chemical weapons in WW2, Churchill would have responded with a similar attack, not capitulation. Normalization of nuclear weapons will be the beginning of the end of the northern hemisphere.
Hypersonic missiles are overrated. There's a good reason the US didn't bother with them much. Look more into it. Most of the hype about them comes from far right news media trying justify more money for the military industrial complex. And Russia literal only has a handful at best operational.
It's always the Nuclear Option that opposing nations strive for in order to remain in power and not be overthrown, making sure that conquering or destroying them would be as costly as possible to the point of an Invasion not being a viable option.- if there were no nukes to begin with, the whole geopolitical scenery would be so much different.
The nuclear control treaties are no different than the Washington Naval treaty attempting to limit the number of battleships. And the Washington Naval treaty failed spectacularly in attempting to prevent WW2.
@@davidford3115 Yeah but the Washington Naval Treaty did work. Its just that Battleships after Doolittle sank that WWI German battleship in 1921. Showed Battleships were no longer strategic weapons, air and aircraft carriers were. The only way to compare battleships and nuclear weapons is again have nukes replaced by something more effective and with wider uses than nuclear weapons. So until I guess plasma, anti-matter or space based strategic direct energy/rail gun weapons are fielded nukes are still king.
@@TK199999 If it worked so well, why did almost every power except the US blatantly violate it?
In particular, both the Germans and the Japanese created Heavy cruisers (Admiral Hipper, and Mogami respectively) with light cruiser guns that could be easily retrofitted with bigger ones so as to get around the limits?
Then you have the fact that the Japanese absolutely lied about the true displacement of their capital ships. In particular, the true displacement of their battleships was 50% greater than what they claimed.
Also, it wasn't Dolittle, it was Billy Mitchell who demonstrated the feasibility of air power over capital ships. Dolittle was the Lt. Colonel who led the Tokyo Raid from the deck of the USS Hornet.
Don't try lecturing me on military history when you can't even get your basic facts correct.
There hasn't been a great power hot war since 1945 because of nuclear weapons and MAD.
After WW1&2 humanity came to the conclusion that they could not win WW3.
That's what it took to stop major wars, 78yrs and counting.
@@TK199999
Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) are replacing nukes. They deliver more destruction on the target and cause less collateral damage. Cost less too. No new nukes have been added to the US arsenal this century (just replacements). The peak stockpile for the US was 31,255 warheads (1967) and their current stockpile is 3,750 (2021). Around 1650 warheads are capable of long distance delivery (i.e. strategic). Nukes are slowly going out of fashion as PGMs improve.
Not sure but I think this is also true in Russia, maybe their last new nuke was made by the USSR. Russia has certainly manufactured new missiles to deliver whatever warheads they have. They are trying to decommission nukes, not add new ones, same as the US.
Weakness since his army sucks
100 countries vs 1? It’s grate luck, he not used nukes yet😂
@@RomGree 100 how? I don’t see there soldiers there otherwise the ruskie will be crushed. 0 dead Americans, 200,000 dead ruskies, nice!
@@RomGree 100 vs 1? are you ok?
Slight correction: The Berlin wall fell on November 9, 1989, not November 8. It was the evening of that day, which is why I only realised on November 10.
Danke Björn und Grüß aus Berlin
Desperation to stay relevant & stay in power
Ahh, the tried and tested Kim Jon Un method... With nuclear weapons he can hang on to power or periodically make threats in order to get the world's attention. 😄
"If you can't win a fair fight, flip the table over and screw everyone" Putin
He could literally bring Europe and most US states in ashes during his last years, why wouldn't he? I mean, even if russia gets pulverized, he could still leave a world without the US theoretically. It'd be kinda interesting to see how the rest of the world would evolve from there. At least this isn't some alternative timeline thingy since all it takes is one mad leader and a lot of convincing to those that sit at the tables with their keys. Even if the president ordered I doubt everyone would oblige to a senseless firing.
That's a great strategy.
In war if you find yourself in a fair fight you've done MANY things wrong.
@@killman369547 incredibly based comment.
the same reason of kim jong un, scaring others
In 1989 I thought we'd grown up. If that was the case, 34 years on, humanity is now suffering dementia.
The USA has never grown up. As long as USA continues to threaten countries around the world with aggression, countries will develop nuclear weapons and systems for deploying them. Those that have them like China, Russia and North Korea will expand their arsenals while countries like Iran will acquire them.
We have not evolved, we have remained infected with the germ of evil and chaos.
Russia's economy is now only the same size as Australia's. Russia sees itself as the successor to the USSR yet they can't afford the massive conventional forces. Most of the Russian equipment dates to the 80s and 90s. No nuclear power has ever been invaded
They still have bodies. They can still kinda keep an air force. Until the moment they run out of planes or can't afford an air force anymore then we can't know for sure if Russia will win or lose. Let's keep hoping for a loss
Yup Ukraine will tell you our something else wait they listened to USA and gave the nukes to Russia ... Ohmg Ukraine is mentally disabled... Good job Ukraine.... You can't be more stupid than that.... Good luck with counteroffensive that's a brilliant idea .... 😳
@@austinbowman6177 you think it matters? If he sees the hammer coming down you can be sure he will press the deploy all nuke button. Either way you slice it you are witnessing the world's last war.
@@jdw-616 it does matter since I'm pretty sure russia doesn't rule a nuclear wasteland. If they do then you have a valid point, but i don't think that's in the interest of any nation.
@@jdw-616 Nah .. he is definitely, and obviously, seriously into his own self-preservation. The guy won't even let someone sit near him at a table. He absolutely knows there would be a devastating retaliation for such an insane act, and even China would immediately abandon him. There is zero chance that he intentionally becomes the author of his own destruction.
I like how this dude speaks so quick and clearly. I can soak it up and move on.
Cheers 😎
@Shazmattazz cool
ICBMs have been hypersonic for 60 years.
They go to orbit at 7,000 mph and increase to 18,000 mph once in orbit.
Those are not maneuverable though.
@@THE-X-Force That's why they make many of them and with multiple warheads. No defence system is stopping them all.
@@Crashed131963 Yeah for sure MIRV's are a thing. Most of them will deploy (on average) 5 warheads. Those warheads though, once released, will have a calculable trajectory.
I'm not saying that they are easy to intercept, but not impossible.
I think the worse problem is the thousands of decoys that can be released, making interception virtually impossible, because without a way to distinguish what is the actual threat, there just won't be enough interceptors to try and hit every possible inbound target.
Well when your losing hundreds of thousands of men on the ground, at a disadvantage in the air, and on sea, you need some type of deterrent. Unfortunately, this is extremely dangerous
If he is unhappy with the situation, it is very easy to keep his military safe .. simply tell them to leave Ukraine and return home.
@@THE-X-Force You couldn't be more wrong. The US would waste no chance in setting up the perfect stage to justify attacking and invading Russia. Fact of the matter is that if Russia 'loses' this war, they essentially stop existing. They'd get ripped apart entirely and would only remain as Russia in name, if that. And Putin is a smart man. If Russia is not allowed to exist, then no one is allowed to exist. And I don't blame him for that. I'd do the same in his shoes. I would destroy the entire world before letting the country I rule be destroyed.
@@THE-X-Force He started this by invading Ukraine.
@@harrietharlow9929 i like how cocky he was when he labeled it as a "special military operation" at first because he thought it would be as easy as cake, lol. I mean, I'm not surprised that he deluded himself though. I also thought the RU army was monstrous compared to most and maybe even on par with the US almost. It probably didn't help that his generals wanted to be praised by Putin by telling him how strong the army is or whatever. I doubt they would admit on being unprepared.
@@harrietharlow9929 ..? .. I know this.
What's happened to Josh's voice 😂 it's 10x deeper than normal. Great video but really hard to take serious 😂
nuke risk is quite low actually.
Whenever I see putin doing a tour of anywhere he always looks so damn unimpressed 😂
he is one man. USA run 6 million hive mind jews. Well distributed oil machine. RUSSIA is a old tractor
That's because it's a body double. He can't show emotion or talk.
He will never do any full-scale first strike. He knows it would bring an overwhelming and inescapable retaliation. He is clearly very fond of living, and takes his self-preservation so seriously that he won't even let someone else sit near him at a table.
_IF_ there were a military encroachment on Russian soil, and there was an enemy division (etc) that could be wiped out with one low-yield weapon, it is within they're doctrine (and "law"), and conceivable .. that _maybe_ .. _MAYBE_ .. if the situation were utterly desperate, he could authorize a "tactical" strike. But, even that is a stretch.
Any strike outside of Russia proper would literally be self-destructive.
Correct. And that's my understanding. Without making any grandiose statement, that's fair. The problem is that deterrence worked for 70 years because rational actors understand the stakes. I don't think these people in the Kremlin understand what that means. There is an apparent arrogance from the Duma parliament that they can blast Europe, and nothing will ever happen to them. They would be wiped out in hours for fear of retaliation. At least 400 millions will lose their lives in the process. Sensible, rational people would try to de-escalate but not them. We are not afraid no matter what they do. If they make that crucial mistake, it is over. And it will be well deserved.
thats what everyone thought about Ukraine
if any one in putin place would have buried UK under the sea
Not just maybe. If it's on your soil, you'll evaporate them down to their monocules. To ensure none of their viruses escapes. And as a form of petty retaliation. It's all within everyone's doctorine as long as it's not on foreign soil.
Putin's mind is degraded. He isn't as rational as he should.
Because they realized that all of their forces were in too poor of a state to be used. The readiness of their nuclear forces is not going to be much better than the rest of the military. Who knows how many of those silos have sat with missiles that have received little to no maintenance.
That is the very question I have been asking since the sinking of the Moskva. Between the Black Seas Flagship and the Admiral Kuznetsov, I wonder if the nukes will detonate in the silo like they did on K-129.
@@davidford3115 They probably won't even detonate. Well the conventional explosives might, but even those degrade. Likely, most of the tritium in Russia's nukes have long half-lived out. And in the process of the nuclear material half-living out, it likely also corroded and degraded the surrounding materials. I'd be surprised if Putin had more than a handful of operational nukes, and probably not a high yield either.
Lots of Russia's missile silos have been flooded for decades.
That or - they are just hollowed out and painted logs.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was on 9th November 1989. not the 8th.
On the battlefield, Putin's military turned out to be a paper tiger.
The Russian military has proven to be disorganized and nowhere near as powerful as they told the world they were.
Putin has lead his military on a trajectory that will exhaust their capabilities on battlefield for all the world to see and when this happens, he won't be around sharing air with us anymore.
Putin is running out of options and never forget, desperate people do desperate things ....
Paper tiger compared to US juggernaut - yes. But given how much problems in the EU military supporting Ukraine has uncovered - this paper tiger still could claw it’s way pretty far.
North Korea, China, Russia, Brazil, Iran are already aligned, they have enough weapons between them to make the west a smoldering memory doesn't matter how you slice it, if you see the loss at the door the deploy all button will be pushed.
It don't matter they are destroying urkaine
@@delonthomas5049 no different than what the west does, and has done. All sin is taken into account with the coming judgement. The American dynasty goes back to Nimrod.
@@delonthomas5049well yes they are destroyed in Ukraine and soon Russia will have no military at all but that dungheap of a country will dissolve into several smaller nation after civilwar. They can’t join other country’s because nobody would accept those psychopath ex Russian people as theyre citizen’s. Well maybe some part of Siperia can join China because China don’t care about human right’s and will just move everyone to re-education camps and they will be never seen again.
whats bigger than the nuclear escalation is the acronym escalation. the acronyms are getting out of control. they have increased by over 9000
It's gonna be really great when these geezers finally drop.
Jesus! why is all his teeth in one side brown? Does he drink all his coffee lying down on his side? How does that happen?
Great video, thank you for sharing.
One of my favorite metal bands is called Sepultura and my favorite song of theirs is called PROPAGANDA. This video reminded me a lot of that song.
We’ve all seen the shirtless Putin photos. Vladimir Putin loves Vladimir Putin, he ain’t gonna blow up the world, that’s where Vladimir Putin lives.
it was all ok until he said "will Europe do anything about it, probably not!!!"
I like your style !
What better way to steal money than to pour it into a project that no one expects or wants you to prove is working?
The risk has not increased thanks to China & India who were very clear that they do not want Putin to use nukes.
Yes, russia will maintain its deterrence capability.
US already developed an interception system.
We have to develop better weapons and ADA
are you mad ??.. you know China hates the US and the US is saying it will fight China if it unifies Taiwan right ??.. China has the biggest navy in the world and is Russia's ally, .. you know that too right .?? .. and the US has no interception for Russias new hypersonics which change trajectory.. the US can't match them and if they don't have an equivalent how would they develop a intercept system???.. what would they test it on .?? .. think before you make an idiot out of yourself.
India and China would inheret the earth.
After USA,Europe and Russia Nuke each other.
It will be a bad 2 or 3 decades but humanity will live on. Minus the White Nations
Europe has already started development of sky shield and TWSTR. Both ABM systems, but there is no effective ABM system. And there likely won’t be one anywhere in the world for many decades.
Agreed. It's not even so much the maneuverable hypersonics, but the insane amount of decoys they release.
The french want to sell their rockets for this in a egoistic way
@@_Alfa.Bravo_ the European sky shield is an open architecture. The currently planned systems are from Germany and Israel but can also integrate US or other systems.
TWSTR is a hypersonic defense ABM that is jointly developed by Germany and France and likely also others. It’s still in the early design phase. So far Russia only seems to have outdated weapons and I would question that they can improve on that in the foreseeable future.
@@tobiwan001 sadly you don’t need big technology to defeat an abm system, just more decoys and reentry vehicles. Even if Russian hypersonics are just more of the same paper tiger nonsense, they still have the tech to overwhelm an abm system
@@tobiwan001 ... I duopt any system can take down a zirkon flying 6,7 or 8 sonic speed
Great video, nuclear defense options sounds nice these days.
Personally I think in the current situation the real risk is less the expansion of Russia's nuclear arsenal but if as a result of the war Russia collapses internally (who will the nuclear submarine fleet answer to/have loyalty to for example) making the chances of a nuclear incident (accident, terrorism or deliberate act by a radical leadership) more likely.
A horrible deal for Belarus.
Not having nukes and just hiding under Russia’s skirt would at least make them a non target.
Russia will maybe help Iran obtain nukes in return for a handful of pointless weapons for the futile now 10-month long fight for a village in the Donbass. It would everybody else in the region against Russia though.
Russia has already helped Iran and North Korea long time ago 😂
@@leedex but Iran has no nukes yet.
@@tobiwan001
Iran Have Nuke, Iran Have Hypersonic Intercontinental Missiles , Iran Have 2 Nikola Class Submarines , Iran have 1 Drone Carrier but Never Showed
@@OshinAttari Iran "have" a bunch of medieval morons running the show.
@@tobiwan001 the first two Nukes, were successfully deliver almost 78 years ago.
Why shouldn’t a country like Iran, be able to build their own Nuke with the help of Russia? 🙄
A Nuke just need to be dropped from an airplane.
Appreciate the information
If Russian nukes are as effective as their military, we have nothing to worry about 😄
Say that when you are getting incinerated by a Russian nuke.
You should be worried fool
How's Putler's 3 day Special Military Operation going?
It’s going amazing , fantastic, a perfect special operation, best special operation of all time. At least, that’s what they’re telling me on Russian state tv 🤣
@@alex434343 As far as time goes, Russia is only wrong by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Because they don't require troops.
Nukes are the only card Russia still holds thats worth playing.
Even those are a losing hand. The only difference is that they make sure the other side loses too.
Suicidal Nuclear war over a land grab?
@@Crashed131963 Yeah, that wouldn't make any sense. I think when he started it he really thought it would only take 3 days and be over with some mild sanctions to deal with for a year or two from the West. He didn't actually think they would have to fight so hard for it. Now, it's not just about a land grab anymore. It's about his reputation and his legacy. It's for those things (plus the land grab) he is willing to make his subjects fight so long and hard for to win.
@@snapdragon6601 it's bad enough a so called superpower can't take out the government of a poor country right next door.
People once thought Russia cound roll over west Europe before the war.
And that assumes that they don't detonate in the silo like they did on K-129 instead of launch as they are supposed to do. The issues regarding the Admiral Kuznetsov and Moskva casts serious doubt on the competency of the Russian Nuclear Forces.
Omg I come from Visualpolitik spanish and I didn’t know there was a bald guy as well in the English version 😅
8:52 Sounds like they're slowing down other hosts voice in trying to make his voice sound deeper 😅
Love the content, please consider teeth whitening. Not an attack it's just the format you are doing. Thanks
By modern trans logic, every final fantasy game that Amano did the art for is a proto LGBTQ+ game. Cecil wore lipstick and eye liner but married a woman and had a kid, Kefka had more cosmetics than a gaesha but still tried to marry Terra. To say nothing of the infamous cross dressing scene from FF7.
Correction: Nixon actually eanted to use nuclear bombs against North Vietnam…
I remember that, but he at least had the self-control not to.
Great president Nixon 😂
@@peter_shadow7559 Nixon was a MURDERER, not much different than Putin……. He planned and tried through 3 years to attack, dismantle and and committed a military putsch against Chiles democratic government the 11th of September, leading to among others thingsc around 10.000 murdered, more tortured and 17 years of a brutal fascist dictatorship….
Can someone start a GoFund me so he can get his teeth cleaned? : )
I’m sure his teeth are clean. He just needs a few whitening treatments.
the USA indeed did threaten to use Nucelear weapons during Vietnam war.
Though not as publicly. They employed the so called madman theory, and implied that Nixon is crazy and his the finger on the nuclear button, and so the Vietnamese better give him what he wants.
At the same time, nuclear armed bombers circled in the air.
In the end, it didn't work and was aborted, but the threat at least was tried.
Always the same. The old people with the rocket toys.
Smoking is bad for your health
Momma didn’t raise a quitter. Statistically 100% of non smokers die anyway
You just started humbly
Cause that’s all he’s got. His armies are not where he thought they were at as the oligarchs he tasked with military modernization decided to make themselves billion dollar yachts
And what is to say that the oligarchs in charge of maintaining his nukes didn't do the same? The Moskva and Admiral Kuznetsov makes me question the readiness of Russian nuclear weapons (Bent Spear/Dull Sword).
@@davidford3115 That's most definitely what happened.
@@davidford3115 Because unlike all the other parts of the Russian military, Putin didn't hand this off to his Oligarchs. He kept a very close eye on it and it's the one thing that has his full interest. It's not something he's going to put in the hands of others.
@@faelirra So it was Putin's call to supply his military like hobos who found century old weapons, expired rations and body armor and helmets made of plastic and foam?
@@faelirra So, "Trust me bro"? Yeah, that doesn't give me confidence.
Do keep in mind that Prigozhin had Putin's full interest, faith and confidence as you describe. How did that work out when it came to the field rations troops were supposed to be supplied with?
Scientists should just give up on the Doomsday clock. People are to stupid to care about the only place we live!
Keep yapping about using nukes, it's just proof's how week russia is. The more russian trolls try to scare the rest of the world the more convinced we are you are damn weak.
35000 nukes seems like a lot, until you realize we had 35001 targets.😅
I could of answered this for you, nukes is all he has . the boy has no rizz , you have to walk softly and carry a big stick
Could of?
@@williamwilson6499 Talking about nuclear war .. but let's make sure we don't make any typo's. We're not savages after all. 🙄
Is.. Is that the B1M guy narrating bits of this?
Let us never forget Wassili Alexandrowitsch Archipow, who refused order on bord sub B59 to launch nuklear torpedo in Oktober 1962 .... if he didn't third worldwar would have started !!!
11:34 Russia’s economy has improved what the hell are you talking about for gods sake ?? You really need to check your information
This video is very sad. I don't know where he gets everything he says.
i'm really scared what happen if nuclear bomb explode I don't want such a world because I love nature, I don't want someone's life to turn into a tragedy
Putin must be stopped
Just thinking how well do Russian nuclear weapons work. What we have seen in Ukraine, Russian weapons are... little less capable.
Sounds like Visual P believe in Unicorns as well?
It's almost over, deterrence theory will fail, just a matter of time imo
The URRS 😂
Cos he has no Ace cards left to blackmail europe with! 😅
He said he wasnt bluffing with the threat of using nuclear weapons.
Well we shall see sooner or later...
He failed by trying to blackmail Europe with an energy cap last year, and his military and Wagner group - have proven to be utterly usless paper tigers! 😂😂
Hate to say it but if winter was gonna be a problem that year but wasn't, does that mean mother nature wanted the Europeans to succeed, or is she gearing up to make it hell on all sides?
@@austinbowman6177 Mother nature is more of an anomaly than a sentient being
She-It doesn't make decisions based on choice or favourites 😅
Nukes are a man made thing after all and all it takes is to push 1 red button to unleash hell and Kudos to the aggressor
Let's be honest, it's old men in suits who are squabbling and doing the proverbial fighting
@@EAcapuccino ehhh you still gotta take it into account so you don't die of heat stroke. Though the reason i say mother nature is mostly because i don't believe Putin will launch the nuke given how much destruction over a ton of years, meaning a conventional conflict could be the most likely outcome and could drag on until the next winter or two winters. Taking desperation into account it'd be more likely but a general could see sense and stop putin.
@@austinbowman6177 Nah
Vladimir Putin is a former KGB agent, so he knows a thing or 2 about secrecy so his government are all loyal to him and him only
Highly unlikely they'll be a successful coup like there was with Mikhail Gorbachev
I also doubt he'll use nuclear weapons.
Again what I said earlier, we shall see
@@austinbowman6177 The UK and Norway both share the same gas field anyway, it's Eastern Europe and Germany who needed to worry about the gas/Energy supply blackmail last year
But luckily for them it was a mild winter
I hope this doesn’t happen.. it’ll literally be like Resident Evil globally. An outbreak of toxins and the wars need to stop. Unite and don’t fight ❤
Time for Russia to build a new "Tsar Bomba" and do a nuclear test. Gotto make sure the technology still works!
Herosima will be good testing ground 😊
USSR fell due to the effects of soviet citizens with influence of external stimuli. So to putin it would be logical to focus the external stimuli as a concentrate and defend against this with even a nuclear consequence
Only missiles left in stock ?
Why not mention that only US used nuclear on civil population? Twice 😊
Well because this was ww2. The death toll of the nukes were actually small compared to the 30 million deaths the japanese caused.
Also USA was atttacked by Japan. Not the other way around.
@@sH-ed5yf so it's a okay when the US use mass destruction weapons as many times as propaganda may justify
And they wanted to nuke china and vietnam.
@@sH-ed5yf japan took their war with russia to seriously and thought all western nations give up after you blow up their toy boats
Because he’s over compensating
dont get that twisted, there is no reliable interception in a real nuclear scenario.
Screw defense! America needs to develop new *offensive* nukes. Hey, MAD has worked for decades. Why change it?
You got a really thick Yorkshire accent
They feel threatened
Hopefully because he's going to use them soon.
Knock it off I know this is a pro-western channel, but I think that Russia is just simply using all of his old stuff,
you should act beatlejuice
11:22 nonsense
This video is very sad. I don't know where he gets everything he says.
I always thought a giant version of a fleshette round with all forms of guidance would make a good missile defense system. The other one is obviously by using satellites to shoot down ICBM's and use the air defenses for the planes and use the Navy to knock any subs out if the water. The U.S. has a worldwide sonar body system and Russian subs are tracked easily enough. The Russian bombers wouldn't stand a chance. What would be the most dangerous IMO is a state like Iran or Russia selling a bomb to terrorists with a the enemy of my enemy is my friend thing.
Indeed. Loose nukes in the hands of a rouge actor is a far more terrifying threat than a hundred thousand nukes in the arsenal of a military.
We are not stupid russian is not that weak as you say they can't defeat Ukraine,we all see the fight is not Ukraine it's the collect west fighting there,so don't lie
Did you mention the expansion of Nato....?
Let's hope Russia gets their security they deserve also..
Boys and their toys.
The idea is Us can only kuve when Rusisa likes and wishes for it as a country people and nation ....
Ukraine? More like Nuke-raine
Why US and Nato do not invade Russia maybe without Russia no more business for weapons manufacturer.
If those of you that are so worried about it, give your kids to russia, I'm sure they will take care of them
So much for peace. I'm more worried about an accidental nuclear war. There have been times when countries thought they were attacked and missiles were almost launched. Sometimes it only took the judgement of one person to avoid a war.
Indeed. The Soviet officers who chose to de-escalate deserve all the praise for their coolness under fire and level-headed judgement of the situation. Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov both deserve recognition for their actions in preventing a nuclear arms exchange. Yes, as an American I CAN praise Soviet Officers who acted with professionalism and honor.
@@davidford3115 Exactly. Those two men saved our lives twice.
Yeha like every Russian troll you are worried about nuclear war. This just shows how weak Russia has become. The smaller the dog the harder it barks.
@@davidford3115 Shasha but you are not an american 🤣🤣🤣
@@piotr2951 Say the guy with an obviously Russian name for his account handle. Pot meet kettle.
Now how about you actually debate the merits rather than resort to guttersniping.
PS, my ancestry is Lorraine German, from the province of Alsace. which is now French
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” ― Margaret Thatcher
And how is Us so called capabilities in uts favour?
Yes thats why with Sarmats its good to have deterrnet to pos and cowards who will live only and only when he likes
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The thing that we have to do is to work towards peace rather than being so addicted to war and conflict.
If he wants peace then all he has to do is end the war he started, and leave Ukraine.
Empty words of a fool. When a russian soldier rapes you in the ass, try saying that crap.
Humans have been fighting since the beginning of history. So fat chance of that.
Humans are creatures of conflict. We thrive in adversity and stagnate in periods of absolute harmony and cohesion. It is why when all of our needs are met, we STILL find trivial reasons to fight.
@@davidford3115 I have to disagree with you on this point: what distinguishes us humans above all is our ability to cooperate. Otherwise our ability to communicate, the use of language, would be completely useless. It takes teamwork to hunt big mammoths or to create civilizations.
The fact that we also have a very pronounced tendency to wage wars is merely a perversion of our hunting instincts. We are no vegans by nature, so part of us is predatory.
In consideration that US has Ohio class Subs out there Russia and China surrounded and the US has thirteen
doomed
Time for tne desteuctikn of usa amd uk
Wake up one day and decide I don't like you and you have to go. Away from the face of the earth.
Fallout
I don’t want to be judgemental but they should pick a not smoking 🚬 host. He is eloquent and sharp but his looks are distracting, not in a good way.
His bad teeth bugs the hell outta me. I stopped watching.
Where's Simon Whistler??? 😔
omg. he's so bald. i can see it in his head
Please check your presentation. It is so so annoying the way you utter words.
Biased towards the west
11:44 - Although propganda does go both ways, so it is possible Boris Johnson may have been lying and of course Vlad-er whats his name? 😏
Nukes are useful, I am wondering if they are going to use them in Ukr, they work pretty at speeding up negotiations (i.e with japan) (and looking at Bhakut, Nukes would not be more damaging than artillery). for nukes RU has the Khenzal hypersonic missile, and we have absolutely nothing that can stop it, nothing
They worked on Japan because they were new and provided a capability nobody else enjoyed. That is not the case now.
RUSSIA has no reason to use NUKES unless NATO comes in with 400000 soldiers. Then It will be nuke the NATO
Artillery doesn’t irradiate and takes weeks to destroy a city not seconds. Nobody is gonna negotiate after a nuke. Had the Germans bombed England with chemical weapons in WW2, Churchill would have responded with a similar attack, not capitulation. Normalization of nuclear weapons will be the beginning of the end of the northern hemisphere.
We're shaking, Ivan.
Hypersonic missiles are overrated. There's a good reason the US didn't bother with them much. Look more into it.
Most of the hype about them comes from far right news media trying justify more money for the military industrial complex. And Russia literal only has a handful at best operational.