This comment is for anyone who is experiencing nuclear-phobia, kinda like I do, to which I strictly mean living with a state of fear or dread about a nuclear apocalypse, this development does puts the world one step closer. It's okay to be scared by that, I know I am. It doesn't mean the world is one step away from a nuclear apocalypse. The world has been closer to the brink of nuclear war before and we're all still here. It's okay to breathe.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t know where you get your nuclear vibes from, but we have hardly been closer, actually.

Six months ago: Doomsday Clock remains at a minute and a half to midnight in 2024—closest ever to apocalypse

And things have only worse since then. This week: Russian warships, nuclear submarine enter Havana Harbor under watch of U.S. destroyers

[–] sweng@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Russia has stated many things they will do, but haven't then actually done. Why would this time be different? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (71 children)

Pretty much none of those were actually stated by Russia. The trend has been that it's the west that make up these red lines, then crosses them and says, see nothing happened. Last I checked, the actual red line Russia set out was Ukraine joining NATO, and when that red line was ignored the war started. This notion that you can just keep pushing a nuclear superpower and nothing bad will happen is imbecilic beyond belief.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Russia said they would nuke the west 10 times already, they have rattled the saber too much and nobody believes the threat.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where, please provide an ofgicial statement from Russia saying that.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/1/how-real-is-putins-threat-to-nuke-the-west

Or do you mean the ones made on state TV in 2022 that the Kremlin now says never happened?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-putin-didnt-threaten-use-nuclear-weapons-us-took-him-out-context-2024-03-14/

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

These are reminders that Russia is a nuclear superpower, and that continued escalation can lead to a direct war between west and Russia which will almost certainly be nuclear.

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

good, now we know that they are in fact not do that