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Dr. Strangeleft

The American Mind

CHAPTER

The Nuclear War Is Political and It's Mostly Nonsensical

I don't think there's a scenario where Putin uses nuclear weapons, even of a small kind, even inside Ukraine. I mean, even if he makes the order very few people are going to want to carry it out knowing the kinds of reprisals that are gonna come from the West. They've demonized Russia and Putin to such an extent over the last five years that they can't sit back and say, well, okay, we're gonna make peace now. He's got to be as evil as the domestic opponents they face in the United States,. which is to say us are.

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