Finland Lifts Ban on Nuclear Weapons, Opening Door to NATO Deterrence Cooperation
9h 18m ago by lemmy.world/u/CAVOK in europe@feddit.org from united24media.com
I'm sure this will end well.
Was it going to end well before this?
Finland should have a chat with the Kurds. Fins love their land and the Russians may love it, too, but what is the strategic value to Russia? The future is in the east: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle
This is a very confusing comment. What do the Kurds have to do with this, and what does the distribution of the world's population have to do with it?
Threatening indiscriminate mass murder (ie “nuclear deterrence”) says more about a government than about what they believe they’re up against.
yeah, threatening with nukes is definitely an overblown response to *checks notes* threatening with nukes
Well, it may have been better if we had never invented nukes.
Howeverrrrr, now that we do have them: countries don’t get nukes to actually use them. They are a major stabilising factor because they are the single most deterring force in the world.
That’s the paradox of the nuclear weapon, a most destructive force that can bring peace, a weapon that is most effective when not being used.