In theory no, in practice we don't know ...... yet.
It does have that whiff of Elon's hubris.
He hasn't after any of the previous 80 or so threats in the last 30 months. Not a betting person here, but you may just be right on this.
Russia has always taken, threatens nukes, pulls back a bit and appears to be conciliatory yet all the while it has still gained more territory. In the past this worked, Chechnya, Georgia, etc a well placed threat the world rolls over, then look at the number of threats since the world ignored them.
#vatniksoup is a Twitter thread series (and a hashtag!) where I’ll introduce pro-Russian actors and propagandists from around the world, be they so-called “independent journalists”, politicians, milit...
Loving the Ci/km2 to set the SI twitch off :) Keep posting, learn every time!
The fact that Ukraine is hitting Russian ammo dumps 450km inside Russia is proof that allowing Ukraine to hit 300km inside Russia would be an escalation.
That's helluva story, surprised it's not a film.
Yes, nuclear anxiety today is far less pervasive than it was in the 80s. I'm not sure how many people know that the USG feared Russia might go nuclear in autumn 2022, despite the fact that the media covered it quite extensively at the time.
I find the "mainstream" nature of nuclear war fears in the early 1980s, and the way they "bled" into the zeitgeist, fascinating. It's a little hard for me to imagine successful pop songs about nuclear war today. open.substack.com/pub/doomsday...
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs from 1983-1984
Wasn't just the USG, Many of us feared the normalisation of nukes, using a low yield with no radiological implication, i.e. nuking a field and saying "Now look what you made me do" 2022 was the time to do it, now with so many russian red lines being crossed it would need to be more than tactical ...
Was it abandoned after the 24 were killed or .... chased for 49 days then abandoned and everyone died somehow ..... or they chased it for 49 days then a taxi driver found it, which says they really weren't trying that hard. So many questions .....