Russia is a nuclear power, there were even a couple articles like a year or 2 ago talking about how Putler was, at least trying to, remove any safeguards between his button push and the actual nukes.
Thus preventing another occurrence of when that Russian missile operator received orders to fire nukes because radar said there was in inbound missiles but the operator decided to ignore them and it turned out to be a glitch or whatever.
Almost had me, but not enough ranting about BlUemAgA gave it away lolol
Yea I can see it, but Russia is absolutely intentionally pushing us in that direction through various means.
I don't remember which thread it was, but someone else on Lemmy said "Russia, shit military, excellent intelligence apparatus" and I think that's a very apt description lol
Closing, will not fix
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Absolutely! LMAO
Lol it's part of a small effort to boycott and redirect non-tankie content to non-.ml comms and instances
That's actually the only time I've ever seen someone get so angry over fake internet points since I started cross-posting like that lmao
Most don't even notice or care and the ones who do usually just post a "Why" comment
I will make it a good UI....one of these days...lmao
Lol I think you and Tom would get along
"I am tired of tapping panels. For once, I want controls that let me actually feel the ship I'm piloting." ~Tom Paris, S5E3, Extreme Risk
It was posted to the .ml Tankie instance, cross-posting it is part of an ongoing effort to boycott and redirect content to some degree to other instances/comms
I don't typically cross post things posted to non-Tankie instances, it would have just gotten an updoot instead (except for if I think a niche comm would enjoy it)
Yes and no, America does have a similar sized arsenal, but the difference is the president isn't in control of the button itself. The "nuclear football" is more like a private key and order transmittal device, basically if the nuke missile silos receive an order from it, they can trust it's legit because the presidents football signed it. The silos firing mechanisms are also all independent. They can still choose to not insert their key and turn it (of which it takes 2)
In Russia, it may very well be that Putler has actual control of the actual button that controls the actual firing mechanisms of the silos themselves.