Putin feels that he has to fulfill his own version of the American "Manifest Destiny" presumably there are also other Russians behind him on the leadership ladder who feel the same way.
This crisis has been looming for as long as I can remember, M.A.D. was supposed to downscale the risk but with a (sick) madman in power the balance (equilibrium) goes away, is greatly reduced, potentially a fatal flaw for us.
I should add that in NZ we will probably be ok as long as the nuclear exchange is limited.
This crisis has been looming for as long as I can remember, M.A.D. was supposed to downscale the risk but with a (sick) madman in power the balance (equilibrium) goes away, is greatly reduced, potentially a fatal flaw for us.
I should add that in NZ we will probably be ok as long as the nuclear exchange is limited.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche