/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 402, Part 1 (Thread #543)

At the end of the day, Russia is a nuclear power. Just like the Vietnam and Iraq wars were and still are talked on US terms, Ukraine will still be talked on Russian terms because the rule of thumb is that nuclear powers dictate geopolitics and non-nuclear powers just shut up and obey.

If there was social media in 1939, we would not read what you’re saying because there was no A-bomb, just like without nuclear weapons right now we would already be seeing WWIII since June of the last year, probably. Continuous act, if Hitler had nuclear weapons, you would’ve seen a lot, but a lot more of appeasement than you did. No one would’ve died for Poland and the invasion of France would’ve kickstarted MAD and the end of the world.

I’m saying this since last year and I will repeat: the media, public and government level of support to Ukraine is entirely new in the history of the world. We have a plethora of countries that were invaded, bullied and murdered by the nuclear powers of the world: Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania, Vietnam, Camboja, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, all of South America, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Mali, Tibet. No one received a tenth of the support Ukraine is receiving. Iraq ceased to exist as a civilized state for a couple of years and yet all the public reactions was a bunch of “no, don’t do that”, Freedom Fries and “bad America”. People are already going pretty much beyond what was drawn in the sand as the lines that a nuclear power can be pushed by the international community.

So yeah, we are already being more antagonist towards a nuclear state than we have ever been (and if we are to consider background and what the USSR did in Afghanistan and the US did in Vietnam, there’s a lot more of allowed war crimes that Russia can push and justify with “the US did as well”). You will never see a public press as gung-ho as in 1941 because you will never be as gung-ho as you was to Hitler towards a nuclear power. The Iron Curtain, Vietnam and Iraq were the paradigms of how would you react to a nuclear power being imperialist and borderline genocidal. If anything, Ukraine is changing the paradigm for the first time in our recent nuclear history.

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