Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat

spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This one is a doozy to break down. Tons going on politically. There’s the obvious - this is Putin projecting strength to his people by reinforcing the nuclear threat they still hold over the world, this is Russia signaling specific terms under which they would deploy their nuclear arsenal (the quiet part is that they could false-flag those conditions. Obviously Ukraine would never use a dirty bomb; they dont want to poison their own land and they gain nothing by denying russian land to Russia. But Russia could set a dirty bomb if the war starts goes badly enough for them!) - and the less obvious, like the speculation that this is an attempt to softly force Ukrainian strategy away from using weapons that could be dirty bombs (or convincingly converted to them) in order to retain as much plausible deniablity as possible in the even Russia does fake a dirty bomb and then attempts to sue for concessions or face retaliation.

  (Really it’s unlikely to be the grand elaborate scheme just based on putin being a dumbass, but it can’t be discounted completely.)

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No one outside Russia would believe in a birty bomb false flag, IMO, but who knows, putin doesn’t seem to logical. Just look at the terror bombings, totally worthless for his military advancements. Hitler did the same because he was like angry with GB. We know how that ended, but man does it feel slow… Must be so frustrating for the Ukrainians.

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    • ghostlychonk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s at least 30% of the US that would believe it wholeheartedly.

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