avmich 2 months ago

> Sending money also increases the risk of nuclear war

In which way?

  • willcipriano 2 months ago

    1. Increase conflict between you and a nation with nuclear weapons

    2. Make nation with nuclear weapons more desperate

    3. Make nation with nuclear weapons more angry

    If the point is to prevent nuclear war you must either prevent nukes or prevent war. This accomplishes neither.

    • avmich 2 months ago

      > 1. Increase conflict between you and a nation with nuclear weapons

      How? The nation with nuclear weapons probably understands that it will suffer a lot in a nuclear war, or will likely get hit with nuclear weapons itself, right?

      > 2. Make nation with nuclear weapons more desperate

      So what? It may be desperate, but can't use nuclear weapons because - see pt. 1. - it may think it will hit itself with nuclear weapons. Ok, maybe not even nuclear weapons - but that nation may also understand that it won't stand long against focused non-nuclear attack.

      > 3. Make nation with nuclear weapons more angry

      Nations, really, aren't people, saying they are angry is complicated. Maybe leaders will become more angry, but what could they do? Ok, even if everybody will get more angry, so what?

      > If the point is to prevent nuclear war you must either prevent nukes or prevent war. This accomplishes neither.

      You can't prevent nukes - they exist in the world - and can't even guarantee you can prevent war, but you should carefully estimate what bad and good consequences your actions will have. Is it better to try to stop an aggressor? What may happen if you do? What may happen if you don't?

      • aeternum 2 months ago

        It's quite foolish to risk a nuclear war to prevent a country from taking territory they literally had less than 20 years ago.

        Everyone is now worse off because the land is filled with mines and thousands have been killed. China and Russia

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