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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It requires very rigid discipline to threaten your enemy with MAD. The more tasks you can solve without testing your own faction's discipline, the better. If every parking place argument gets to threats of nuking the opponent, because you can't threaten anything else, either eventually you'll have to use MAD for such a small cause, or you'll step back on that and then there'll be something a bit more important over which you'll threaten MAD.

And so on, until MAD is in practice useless for you.

[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The language you are using reads like you're discussing an RTS.

There's no requirement for any rigid posture except maintaining control over said nuclear arms. Most of NK saber rattling is done to aquire aid and material. Merely having Nuclear arms and demonstrating that control and willingness to use them as a defensive measure is all that's needed. Other countries and powers on the global stage will modify or attenuate their position based on the demonstration of said control

I suggest reading these to better understand my position.

https://oxfordre.com/politics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-347

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA585975.pdf

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago

And it's fine when there are states behaving with the responsibility of an RTS player. Will read, thx