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[Yarrgh]

I don't mean tomorrow. What I mean is, if Putin is detonating dams then we know he's running out of conventional options. If pressure starts to build on him...

This is turning into the sort of scenario where I would tell you someone might actually use one. First use by a democratic regime more or less guarantees removal from office. Bilateral mutually assured destruction seems to work, mad as it is. The disaster scenario is an authoritarian regime under pressure both from within and without facing an opponent armed only with conventional forces. First use probably leads to a coup, but that's not a certainty. If you're in that box and you know a coup is coming anyway, why not? What's the worst that can happen? They kill you for treason either way if the coup succeeds, so why not do absolutely anything to try and stop it?

Let's hope we don't find out the answer to your hypotheticals.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Are you vegan?

Vegetarian and long time animal lover

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Vegetarian and long time animal lover

Sprouts have feelings too.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

If I could flip the switch tomorrow that sees all human life end, I would.

Says the man who thinks cyclists should just go away so he can blast away in his Audi A8

 

[peteblue]

If I could flip the switch tomorrow that sees all human life end, I would.

99.99999999% of humans are nice people. There are only a matter of a couple of 100’s of cretins across the world causing all of this….

 

[Martin Alvito]

99.99999999% of humans are nice people. There are only a matter of a couple of 100’s of cretins across the world causing all of this….

That's a dramatic overestimate on the percentage. At least over here, I would still say that most people are nice people. I would also say that the percentage has been declining for some time now.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Says the man who thinks cyclists should just go away so he can blast away in his Audi A8

Cyclists should just stop riding two abreast

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

99.99999999% of humans are nice people. There are only a matter of a couple of 100’s of cretins across the world causing all of this….

Most of the meat the nice humans eat doesn’t have a nice life/death

 

[scratchnsurf]

Are you vegan?

Pretty sure they would have mentioned it (ten thousand times).

 

[Rita_Poon]

What does the dam do for local irrigation, in that I mean it appears a vast amount of harm regards potential grain production. Stitching long term harm together to continue the living crisis abroad.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[BornBlue76]

99.99999999% of humans are nice people. There are only a matter of a couple of 100’s of cretins across the world causing all of this….

That also means 99.9% of humans are just sheep

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

That also means 99.9% of humans are just sheep

Doesn't make sense

 

[davids]

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History

Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.

www.nytimes.com

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