Russia’s parliament took the first step on Tuesday towards revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and its top lawmaker hinted it might go further by abandoning the pact altogether.
Parliament’s lower house, the Duma, voted by 412 to zero, with no abstentions, to approve the withdrawal of the ratification in the first of three readings.
Russia says the aim is to restore parity with the United States, which has signed but never ratified the 1996 treaty, and that it will not resume testing unless Washington does.
But arms control experts are concerned that Russia may be inching towards a test that would be perceived as a threatening signal by the West at a time of heightened confrontation over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Can we just fucking stop for one minute? Total destruction accomplishes what? It’s mind boggling how absolutely selfish and childish some adults and mostly politicians act. Really depressing actually, feels like a constant battle everywhere against these sorts of people.
You know that this was actual policy for decades right? Lookup Mutual Assured Destruction (mad).
it never stopped being that, everything else is theatre
Doesn’t mean it’s not the dumbest shit humans have ever come up with
It absolutely is, living in the time of ‘duck and cover’ was awesome. It’s nice to see a return.
you don’t own shit unless you can stop others from taking it
thinking otherwise is a naive privilege
Total destruction is not that big a deal if you believe in an afterlife and think you’ll go to the good one.
Threat of total destruction can accomplish quite a lot.
Just do it, but please don’t spare anyone, back to monke we go
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The difference between Russians and Americans has always been that we have used them before, for no reason (Nagasaki) and many presidents since then would love to have a go. Trump wanted to nuke some bad weather, once.
They believe it is all a head game, so they’re good at the game aspect of it. But they are atheists, and so fall short in the “crazy enough to really do it” side of things. Most of us believe in an afterlife, much to my chagrin; in pure game theory terms for MAD, that’s an edge.
It sounds a lot like russia trying to use the wests fear to get us to pull support for ukraine.
Kind of hard to be intimidating while getting one’s ass kicked.
Maybe they can try give us a stern talking to
