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hardspunned: [Oh yeah, totally the same. The Russians had 750,000 troops within 100 miles of the US forces, the U.S. weaponry had just killed 75,000 Russian troops and Russia was maneuvering their 1000 tactical nukes in Vietnam and threatening to launch attacks on London and Paris. Yeah, this is the same deal! Stop with the comedy. This is serious business.]

Russian weaponry killed 38,000 US troops in Korea and 58,000 in Vietnam. That totals the 100K GI dead lost in the Pacific War, for which the US razed almost 50% of just about every major Japanese city. The two cities that had less damage, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were singled out to get a clear picture of the destructive effects of the A bomb. 900K of the 1m Japanese city dwellers killed in air attacks were incinerated with conventional bombs.

Putin won’t nuke the West because if he does, we will kill him, his family, all of his friends and all of their families, as well as all of Russia. There’s no coming back from that. Russia can recover from foreign conquest, as it did from the Mongols. It will never recover from physical extermination.

And he won’t attack the West conventionally because it would invite not only defeat in Ukraine, but also the destruction of his conventional forces in Russia proper. The US has plenty of air assets in Europe to deliver ordnance against Russian targets on Russian soil. Putin’s not going to give the US the excuse it needs to start flattening Russian air bases and supply nodes.

Putin won’t nuke the West because if he does, we will kill him, his family, all of his friends and all of their families, as well as all of Russia.

Also known as mutually assured destruction, without all the psychotic imagery.

Keyword is mutual, dummy.