• Kyiv wants to hit Russia with U.S. long-range missiles
  • Biden comments suggest U.S. may be shifting its stance
  • Kremlin suspects U.S. will give Kyiv green light
  • Says direct Western involvement in war is growing
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    462·
    3 months ago

    Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Moscow would be forced to use “more powerful and destructive weapons” against Ukraine if Kyiv started firing long-range Western missiles at Russia.

    Hey Vyacheslav, what weapons besides nuclear (and maybe biological) weapons does russia have that it hasn’t used against Ukraine already? Do you think if you use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine that that ends the war? Do you think the rest of the world will just say “welp, I guess russia used a nuke, better let them have Ukraine now”. Not even close.

    • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Russia uses nukes in Ukraine to “win” the war. Now they control land that has large swaths that are completely unlivable and non-productive for farming. And the “livable” parts Russia would have to spend huge sums of money to re-build the infrastructure from the blast(s).

      Even if the rest of the world let’s them get away with that (which I doubt they would) it doesn’t seem like a very good strategy.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.