HollowGamer schreef op maandag 19 september 2022 @ 19:05:
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Wat moeten we nu met die dreigingen? De VS neemt ze serieus en praat nu wat ik begreep met China over dit probleem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/...ith_its_partners_measures
Ik weet niet wat we moeten doen, één nucleaire bom op UA (of zelfs hier in de EU dus) kan een zeer grote klap veroorzaken, ook voor ons. Tevens zijn de Russen niet echt goed met het omgaan ervan.
Misschien zou het beste zijn dat de USA en China gewoon de eerste zijn en RU maar wegvegen.. maar ook dit scenario is voor ons niet al te best, het opent voor iedereen dan de weg om die wapens te gebruiken.
Verder lijkt het mij een heel pijnlijke dood, zeker als je de blast overleefd.
De reddit daar heeft overigens een goede gebalanceerde discussie over dit onderwerp. Het gooien van die bommetjes betekent als je de scenario's langsloopt dat het snel afgelopen is voor Putin. Het feit dat we nu nog niet meedoen is de angst om de situatie niet slechter te maken. Dat is m.i. een misrekening geweest, ik heb daar in het verleden al best wat posts aan gewijd in voorlopers van dit topic.
Een team hoog aangeschreven journalisten hebben een artikel geschreven dat probeert de discussie samen te vatten, ik heb dat
hier besproken. De redenering van de duiven overtuigt me nog altijd niet.
Uit die reddit-draad vond ik dit een goede post om te citeren. Het deel dat ik in dikke letter heb gezet is me uit het hart gegrepen, want dat is wat ik vanaf dag 1 bepleit. Rusland is als de dood om ons tegen te komen, en zal er alles aan doen om dat te vermijden. Als we bang zijn voor nucleaire wapens is het juist zaak om initiatief te pakken en
escalatieruimte te beperken.
Messaging is always important of course, with that said the immediate European and American public outcry for humanitarian emergency aid would have to be met partly because of need on the ground and partly to prevent the western hawks from sending the troops across all of the NATO frontlines. A humanitarian response relieves political pressure. Poland could reasonably invoke article 5 based on fallout alone. Sending in military nuclear biological chemical (NBC) decontamination troops to a radioactive weapons strike is logical because they are literally the only organizations properly trained to handle or operate in that environment. Scale matters, the US military and its allies still have extensive defensive NBC equipment and capabilities. The humanitarian needs would have to be met by systems that Western Europe no longer maintains in its civil defense networks. Military helicopters and airlift capacity would have to be used. The public would demand it. Boots would end up on the ground because with humanitarian aid supplied by military personnel comes military logistics personnel wearing military protective clothing to handle fallout and the hazards of radiation exposure. Logistics has to have security. That means you will have boots on the ground.
All of this decision making would have to be made within a few short hours, no more than a day. The alternative is political suicide for those in charge, they would be shouted down in every democratic forum. To leave a Ukrainian cities population and surrounding area without the needed response to this type of assault would be seen by the public as cowardice. Worse it would be seen by Putin as proof he can use them and get away with it.
Bottom line is, until the west actually has a stake in the game Russia won’t feel compelled to stop any particular behavior after they use it. Once the west is the land mine Putin must step on to move forward he will stop. It really is that simple. The western fear of getting involved and making it worse is what Putin counts on. If there was a Allied nuclear nations military base in Kyiv (manned, armed but not participating) I could guarantee the absolute safety of that city from nuclear attack no matter the Russian threat.
A unilateral response from allied countries outside of their NATO or EU charter is un preventable if that nation chooses to act. If Poland and the US decided to send security forces into Ukraine to create a safe zone around the attack location nobody has an ability to prevent it. Plain and simple. This would be a Russian nightmare, not the worst one but a big one. Troops they dare not engage with that have superior almost everything available to them.
The position of the Baltics and Poland are pretty clear even now. They are ahead of what the EU wants to do. They are ahead of what NATO wants to do. It is not much of a stretch to expect them to want to sent military medical personnel. Who else could go? As for American sentiment, do you really think the we would not scream for action. To keep the hawks at bay you need to do something, to keep the humanitarians at bay you need to do something. FEMA is not an agency for this, besides they just call the military. The US government has exactly one tool to respond to a nuclear battlefield in any capacity and that tool wears combat boots, flys Blackhawk helicopters, and is going to be wearing uniforms with American flags on the shoulder.
The same basic pattern applies to the UK, Germany and France. Only the military has any on scale capacity to conduct movement and recovery or rescue in a nuclear environment. Civil defense for this simply doesn’t exist anymore. Men and women in NBC gear in trucks and helicopters driving in and out of the contaminated area would be military because they have the some basic level of training and all the equipment for the job.
So unfortunately a nuke means that the gamble of sending in military medical and rescue followed by all that comes with it isn’t a choice but a necessity both because of lack of other practical emergency response options and because putting allied troops in Ukraine would be the only thing that could possibly keep Putin from either doing it again or his victory. He simply can’t risk killing a large contingent of western military personnel.