[polski-g]

The US has allegedly said they will retaliate with nuclear strikes on Russia if Russia uses nuclear strikes on Ukraine.

[squidbeak]

Barring an attack on the US itself, the US under the current regime will never attack Russia. Whatever the kompromat happens to be, the President is completely bound by it.

[landl0rd]

The "kompromat" is the world's largest nuclear arsenal, some five thousand and change warheads, along with a delivery system that includes an HGV MIRV payload that can deliver a multi-megaton warhead at ~mach 20-something.

[CamperBob2]

As if all their rusty crap still works.

Their video recordings of Trump doing God-only-knows-what, on the other hand, appear to be working great. Ditto, the unreleased files hacked from the Republican National Committee's email server in 2016.

[ceejayoz]

> As if all their rusty crap still works.

It doesn't all have to work.

Like a beheaded snake, you can still get bit.

[wiseowise]

Why would Russia use nukes on Ukraine? It will make it even worse pariah than NK.

[zbentley]

> pariah

Which recent foreign policy actions by Russia indicate that they care overmuch about soft power, or consider its loss to be a significant risk?

[vharuck]

Honestly, I thought part of MAD was how, once a nuclear missile was launched, it would be better for other nuclear states to decimate the country of origin than to wait and figure out where it would hit.

[ceejayoz]

Subs make that more difficult.

[dlisboa]

That'll never happen.

[matheusmoreira]

Doubt.