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While it’s a wild take I think it illustrates what would have been necessary for the Soviets to consider at the beginning of the cold war and we can extrapolate some of their decisions from this.
Like they honestly feared nuclear annihilation, and had good reason to, and so had to counter that with their own nuclear capabilities. I know I’m just outlining MAD but really, so much of post-revolution decision making in communist countries was survival-first, because at all points they were threatened by often better armed and richer nations, that as soon as they acquired world ending technology thought little of wiping huge populations off the map to continue western dominance. For the USSR and China, and Iran and the DPRK today, nukes were for survival. For the west, they were tools of hegemony
Like they honestly feared nuclear annihilation, and had good reason to
This point cannot be overstated. Russia has been an invasion target by European powers for a millenium. And the USSR suddenly found themselves in a new antagonistic relationship with a country that (a) was the global power in terms of industrial capacity and science R&D, (b) had just integrated a whole lot of nazi scientists into their military-industrial complex via Operation Paperclip, and © had actually used nuclear weapons in combat. They’d have been insane not to try to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent.
Frankly I don’t blame any country for trying to develop nuclear-armed ICBMs nowadays. It’s literally the only thing that’s been proven to make the US government think twice about invasion plans.
It’s like that funny joke I’ve heard.
Person: why did guys you neutralize Iraq, when they were being cooperative?
President: Well, you see, they had weapons of mass destruction…
Person: Then why didn’t you invade North Korea?
President: Because they have weapons of mass destruction!
Albeit the missing term here for the DPRK is nuclear, but you get the point…
b) had just integrated a whole lot of nazi scientists into their military-industrial complex via Operation Paperclip
The entire West German military apparatus consisted of Nazis until the 70s.
The Bundeswehr were just the very same Wehrmacht troops that had been shooting at Allies just weeks before. Their leadership entirely consisted of Nazi officers who went from commanding the invasion of Europe to being the chairs of NATO forces without ever seeing a trial.
No wonder the Soviets were so (rightly) paranoid about the West.
You think everyone who isn’t left enough is a fascist
Turn the fash back on them:
“Americans and Brits are so fucking ugly, imagine all of Russia being filled with Anglo genetics how fucking horrible”
I need to make a hexbear account just so I can use that brainworms emoji I’ve seen around
You can actually still use them, though more hexbears are always great.
There’s a thread with nearly all the emojis posted, from there you can get links to them directly and then post them with image links using the format (after removing the spaces):
! [image] (link)
Example:
It’s a bit roundabout but it works
Lmao is this how big Hexbear emojis appear on other instances?
4k pig poop balls
Yeah they’re enormous. I kinda get why people find them annoying but IMO it just adds to the hilarity. If it bothers you that much you need to get off the internet.
Yeah like two emojis are an entire screen full when using Memmy
I know they’re wrong but I get to see them in glorious detail
You would have lost, been pushed out of Europe, Russia and Asia at the cost of millions of Russian lives. You may have been able to nuke a few cities, but the Red Army at that point was far better at WWII battlefield logistics and there was no way you would have been able to win if all of your ‘commie scientists’ started sending as much information as they could to the Soviet Union. Much less the fact that the communists were seen to have ‘won the war’ so America would be the traitor and aggressor and have to deal with serious popular partisan pushback all through Europe.
You won because you played the long game and didn’t force the Soviet hand, please learn to appreciate it.
