NATO is the violent village bully who's starting to get a little too old and frail to keep at it, and the rest of the villagers are starting to give each other knowing looks in the pub while the old bully starts into his usual heavy drinking.
A very gradual, symmetrical escalation is what a sane nuclear-armed country would do in this scenario. Ideally with diplomatic communication about "this is what we are doing and why we are doing it."
US/NATO: Gives a dirty nuke to Ukrainian terrorists who use it to destroy Belgorod
Russia: We're warning you yankee, we may give Syria permission to shoot down a single Israeli aircraft
I think we should all be very happy that Russia is being restrained about escalation to be honest.
Pretty fucked up that the rest of the world always has to be the "bigger person" in every situation. Nato is a rabid dog holding the world hostage.
indeed
NATO is the violent village bully who's starting to get a little too old and frail to keep at it, and the rest of the villagers are starting to give each other knowing looks in the pub while the old bully starts into his usual heavy drinking.
What goes around comes around
A very gradual, symmetrical escalation is what a sane nuclear-armed country would do in this scenario. Ideally with diplomatic communication about "this is what we are doing and why we are doing it."
nuke?