The smartest people on the planet, since the 60's, have worked on this problem, and that's how we got to the concept of "mutually assured destruction" (triad and all that). That means that this "removal" would likely also mean a symmetrical "removal" of the West.
I have a privilege to live in neither a NATO country nor Russia, nor anywhere near, so for me it still looks like a chess game, but the stakes are unbearably high.
You just repeat Russia’s propaganda — thinly veiled thread of nuclear war. The fact is that Russia won’t use it, because nobody will attack Russia. They threaten to use nuke the same way North Korea show off their missile tests, because they have no other option. They know full well that using it will mean the end of Russia, even though it may cause severe damages, or the other end, to NATO countries
To Russia bullying, cyberwar, energy as weapon, or misinformation make a lot more sense.
I can’t “repeat Russia’s propaganda” because I never listen to it. I stick to the facts. If Russian propaganda machine says that E=mc2, we can’t dismiss that because “Russian propaganda said so” and hence it must be a lie.
The smartest people on the planet, since the 60's, have worked on this problem, and that's how we got to the concept of "mutually assured destruction" (triad and all that). That means that this "removal" would likely also mean a symmetrical "removal" of the West.
I have a privilege to live in neither a NATO country nor Russia, nor anywhere near, so for me it still looks like a chess game, but the stakes are unbearably high.