Russia Sends Missiles Thousands of Miles to Simulate Nuclear Response, by Andrew Anglin

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 President Putin orders military to begin nuclear weapons drills. pic.twitter.com/6pM5SKSIRy

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JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia successfully tests the launch of a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile. pic.twitter.com/IX8b8gSSdt

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The fact that no one is worried about nuclear war now shows just how malleable humans are.

During the Cold War, people were flipping out over the potential for nuclear war, they were hiding under desks and making endless films about it. That was a time when both the US and the USSR were run by reasonable people who were very unlikely to start lobbing nukes.

Now, the US is egging on Russia, and Putin is openly saying he’ll fire nukes if they don’t back down, but no one is worried. No one is hiding under desks. There are no large protest movements.

Humans will just go along with whatever, it seems. If the risk of nuclear war is low, you can tell them to hide under desks; if it’s high, you can tell them to not even think about it. They’ll do whatever.

Reuters:

Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a “massive” nuclear response to an enemy first strike.

“Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is important to have modern and constantly ready-to-use strategic forces,” President Vladimir Putin said as he announced the exercise.

It took place at a critical moment in the Russia-Ukraine war, after weeks of Russian signals to the West that Moscow will respond if the United States and its allies allow Kyiv to fire longer-range missiles deep into Russia.

On Monday NATO said that North Korea has sent troops to western Russia, something Moscow has not denied.

They haven’t confirmed it either.

But why is this even important? What does it have to do with anything? There are all kinds of foreign soldiers fighting on the American side. Russia can send allied troops to their side. A few North Koreans is hardly a massive escalation.

In televised comments, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov told Putin that the purpose of the drill was to practise delivering “a massive nuclear strike by strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy”.

The exercise involved Russia’s full nuclear “triad” of ground-, sea- and air-launched missiles.

A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome in northwest Russia to Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east. Sineva and Bulava ballistic missiles were fired from submarines, and cruise missiles were launched from strategic bomber planes, the defence ministry said.

The people in Washington seem convinced Russians won’t actually send nukes.

It’s obvious to everyone else in the world that they will.

It’s possible that if Russia nuked a major European city, the West would not even respond. They would just fold. This idea that as soon as someone sends one nuke, the whole world explodes like Fallout, is not really based on very much.