I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to roll my eyes since Ukraine invaded Donbass in violation of the Minsk Treaty. Why? Because of the constant mention of nuclear threats.
So here’s a quick breakdown of the history of nuclear threats.
First off, any nuclear threat mentioned in the media, or made as a public statement, is always bunk. The only times there’s been real and serious nuclear threats in our history we’ve learned about it from declassified sources long after the fact.
Whether it’s Iraq, or North Korea, nuclear threats made into public knowledge are never true.
That’s because the whole problem with nuclear weapons is mutually assured destruction. So if you’re planning on using them, then you generally don’t let everyone know in a press conference three weeks prior. It kind of puts you into what can only be described as moronic levels of danger.
You don’t decide to be sporting about nuclear war and let everyone know in advance so they can put all their missile command bases on high alert and prepare the counterattack. It’s just not entirely intuitive to risk hundreds of thousands of your own citizens in some extremely fanatical dedication towards a sense of fair play.
In fact, fair play goes against the whole idea of nuclear weapons, seeing as how it was basically just intended to let rich countries get to enslave poorer countries… until poorer countries got some nuclear weapons of their own at least, that kind of ruined the plan.
So let’s talk about the hidden history of when humanity almost got wiped out. I will give some good examples of real nuclear threats.
Starting with the Turkish Missile Crisis.
The Turkish Missile Crisis was when the US gave a bunch of nukes to Turkey, and Turkey pointed them straight at the Soviets. The Soviets responded by giving some nukes to Cuba as a way to end the Turkish Missile Crisis. Then the Americans threw a big tantrum in the media and pretended as if only one half of this actually happened.
Then, you got the Viet Nam War. When the US offered the French government a bunch of nukes to drop on the Vietnamese, and the French outright refused since to do so would be absolute insanity.
Following this, you got Richard Nixon’s drinking problem. Nixon would frequently get drunk and start rambling about how it was time to finally press the red button. On several occasions, Henry Kissinger had to talk him out of it and tell him to sleep on the matter. It was a bit like that Rick and Morty episode with the neutrino bomb.
After that you got the Star Wars Missile Defense Programme. This programme was designed to make the Soviet counterattack ineffective, thereby allowing the US to carry out a first strike, killing some 300 million innocent people because of how they had a different economy from that of the US.
And last but certainly not least, we got the Gehelen Organisation. Which was a West German NATO effort to hire former Gestapo war criminals and turn them into spies at the behest of the US and their allies. The result were a bunch of unscrupulous people who, for fear out of getting the noose at Nuremburg, falsified a bunch of reports about Soviet arms acceleration, which resulted in what became known as the Missile Gap. This is what sparked the domino effect of the early nuclear arms race.
To this day, there’s only one nation on the planet that’s ever used nuclear weapons on live targets. Once in Hiroshima, and once in the Bikini Islands.
And it’s not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not Korea. It’s not Iran, and it’s not Cuba.
Rather, it’s the country that takes far too many liberties in accusing others of its own crimes.
