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Any idea that the Russians will use a nuclear weapon neglects the reality of the rampant Russian military corruption.
Like other weapons, they need maintenance and upkeep. Are you saying that they were kept up like they should have been?
I think that if the Russians actually attempt to detonate a nuke from their arsenal, it just might be a dud.
If it becomes verifiable that Russia failed to maintain their nukes, Russia no longer has a nuclear deterrent.
This is why they haven't.

@jeffowski@mastodon.world

I'm suspecting similar for why so few higher-end NATO systems are being sent: fitness for modern battlefields can be hidden behind "well, they weren't used correctly" and "there weren't enough of them". NATO nations can pony up a token number if tanks and aircraft to spec out the next generation systems (see M1A2SEPv4 being cancelled in favor of M1E3).

@jeffowski why would they want fallout on their own border?

@heyoka @jeffowski You imply that any of Putin's orders here have made sense.

@TheMNWolf @jeffowski
not paying enough attention to that lately, which ones didn't?

@heyoka —modern nuclear weapons have much much less radiation and fallout due to their much higher efficiency. Fallout is essentially unspent fuel that got blown apart before full fission happens. With deuterium-lithium hydrogen bombs, there is much less fallout and radiation. You don’t want waste the blast potential by creating radiation instead of heat.

@jeffowski Putin probably doesn't have confidence about the quality of his nuclear threat as well as confidence about the quality of information he has about the quality of his nuclear threat.

@jeffowski exactly...

Not to mention the use of #NBC weaponry is the last straw to go full "#GlovesOff", which is why even the #Nazis' own war machine systematically self-sabotaged their chemical weapons' program, knowing that the Allies would basically retaliate the same way...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_

en.wikipedia.orgHistory of chemical warfare - Wikipedia