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0 pointsseanw4442y ago0 comments

I don't understand why people are so scared specifically about Putin's nukes. He's not the only murderous dictator with a big red button, but he's the only one I hear people worrying about. Xi + the CCP is just as much, if not more, of a threat.

And due to the way things are going, they're testing the waters in cooperation and friendship.

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unethical_ban2y ago

For all of China's faults, the country seems less reliant on hard power for survival. Russia is a country with three tricks only: fossil fuels, nuclear weapons and destabilizing democracies.

China is a manufacturing and technology powerhouse.

awb2y ago

There have been decades of tension, proxy wars and explicit threats of mutual nuclear destruction between Russia and the West.

avaika2y ago

Unlike Xi, Putin and his propaganda machine has literally threatened to use the nuclear power if they have to. Multiple times.

Yes, it is considered as a bluff. And most likely it is. However so was all the military "exercises" before the invasion to Ukraine in 2022. Only a few really believed it, unfortunately it actually happened.

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