"nuclear deterrence is [like] poker..."

[ColinC]

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olexander scherba🇺🇦
@olex_scherba
Nuclear deterrence is similar to the game of poker. Kinda important not to blink. With their “we won’t fight in Ukraine no matter what” assurances & constant phone calls to Putin, the West is blinking non-stop.

Keep calm & #standwithukraine!
12:27 AM · Mar 23, 2022

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Right, we should be daring him to do it.

“Go ahead and destroy the world fucko. You don’t have the guts.”

I’m sure that would play well.

[rampartc]

2. +1

we can not help the ukraines by goading the russians unto nuclear war.

mutual assured destruction is modeled not by poker, but by the game of "chicken."

[old as dirt]

5. Chicken in theory and practice.

[Bettie]

6. There is space between

"daring him to do it" and declaring that there is absolutely no circumstance under which we would ever go in.

[Strelnikov_]

7. Exactly

And it would only take an exchange of 40 to 100 nukes.

The vast majority of humans would then die from the resultant starvation.

My understanding is that 'Threads' even understated the impacts on modern society.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. Why don't you trust President Biden to do the right thing? n/t

[old as dirt]

4. The Gambler

[old as dirt]

8. Aces and Eights....the Dead Man's Hand

[CrackityJones75]

9. So tired if this shit.

First off in poker someone is going to go all in.

Secondly do people think the biden administration and other leaders are just winging it? Like they don’t have inteligence teams on this? That they haven’t gameplaned and simulated the results thousands of times? Nope we should definitely increase tensions with a madman who also is sitting on a pile of nukes because hey…. Fuck it if we are wrong nobody is going to be around for very long anyway.