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Originally Posted by Damien
My hope is that no matter how mad Putin gets if he were ever to actually give the order his generals would ignore it.
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The BBC reporter covering the nuclear readiness story this afternoon made a point of saying the generals receiving their stage-managed orders from Putin were visibly uncomfortable.
They’re not fools. This isn’t a Cuban missile crisis and the world is nowhere near the brink of nuclear destruction. For them to even contemplate obeying a launch order they would have to believe there was nothing left to lose. Even if Putin in his most fevered delusions comes to think that’s the case, his generals do not. The no-longer-quite-so-wealthy oligarchs surrounding Putin likewise do not. They are not Marxist-Leninist ideologues and they have vastly more to gain by making friends with the West so they can get all their lovely money back.
If Putin gets that far, or, I suspect, if it looks like he’s straying dangerously close to it, someone will see to it that he is taken out of the equation.