Has anyone written about how modern nukes are a weapon of the weak (state)? The first and only use was an exceptional strong vs weak use. Now the biggest risk is weak and fragile states throwing a last big punch on the way down.
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I was mildly concerned during the Kargil War, but I don’t think Pakistan was fragile enough at the time to contemplate use. It was just border adventurism. Russia today feels a lot more desperate.
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This is why Iran and North Korea are particularly worrisome since they also have weak states and strong historical adversaries nearby. Weak in the sense of low ability to govern or provide any services beyond coercive policing and extraction focused ones.
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It’s not a life and death situation for Russia. A strong gauntlet to the face at most.
Where do you see fragility?
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It kinda is, based on some reports I read. Fake numbers and manipulated monetary picture covering increasingly desperate situation.
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Seems like to stark a line to cross.
It's more a gun that shoots you back.
If Putin tried nukes, I can't imagine he'd last very long, and he knows it.


