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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putin will launch a Nuke into Germany.[/quote]

He launches a nuke, and Moscow, Petrograd, and wherever he's trying to hide, cease to be.

But I don't think he will.  Nuclear deterrence has always been a bogeyman at the fore of Russian military psyche.  As much as they think they can rattle the sabers, they know it would be the end for them if they ever actually pushed the button.[/quote]

Learn that in our policy class did we, little buttercup?  Pfft.

Communist officials let children march in the Chernobyl May day parade in swirling radioactive dust.  To this day Belarus has a massive cancer / deformity rate.  Former Soviet Union military tactics included the possibility of charging through a tactical nuke strike.  And I wouldn't forget Simonyan's little song at the "fore of Russian military psyche".

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rts-margarita-simonyan-belts-out-song-on-russian-state-tv-in-awkward-push-for-more-troops-in-ukraine

After noting that the situation is very difficult, Simonyan decided to sing verses from an old Soviet song, “The March of the Red Cavalry.” [* see note below] Other panelists awkwardly looked down, as she sang and then reiterated the lyrics about moving forward and never backing down.  Simonyan went on: “If we back down, what awaits us—and I don’t mean it as hyperbole or metaphorically speaking—is everything that is described in [Adolf] Hitler’s table conversations, written down by his aides and secretaries. With a lot of gusto, he described in great detail how he saw our place on earth. It was a plan to turn us into yahoos—from “Gulliver's Travels”—abominable creatures, resembling human beings. They look just like us, but in reality they’re nothing like us. They can’t read or write, they can barely talk—that was written in Hitler’s table conversations. He even wanted us to lose our language, communicating with the use of signs and gestures.”

Simonyan recounted Hitlers plans to turn Russians into a mass of people, denied basic rights, from vaccination to education. To keep them in a good mood, the enslaved masses would be entertained with happy tunes, constantly being played for their enjoyment. Simonyan argued: “If you think that sounds wild, let’s remember that it isn’t. Let’s remember the 90s when this is exactly what happened. There was fun and music everywhere, but nothing to eat.”  Head of RT alleged, in all seriousness: “This is exactly what awaits us in the future if we back down. Are we ready to live that way?” She added: “Let’s not think that this is just some local conflict... For us, this is a question of continuing to exist in our current state.”

Concluding her bizarre performance on Solovyov’s show, Simonyan said: “People ask when, where and how our special operation will end. It will end when all the ‘nerus,’ all the ‘vyrus,’ everyone who wants to turn us into yahoos, everyone who directs them, everyone who brainwashes them, will suffer infamy and shame. It may take 3 months, 3 years or 30 years, so be it. What other choice do we have?” Solovyov replied: “Our other choice? Reduce the whole world to dust. Just not yet.” Smiling, Simonyan** replied, “And we will go to heaven.”

*The significance of the song about The March of the Red Cavalry it's the equivalent of a Custard's Last Stand.
**Symonyan really isn't a true Russian and could even say she's nerus herself?[/quote]

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