Dougie93

The Americans also employ tactical nuclear weapons, along with opacity, so for example when a US Navy Carrier Strike Group passes through the China Seas freedom of navigation, it is not at that distance under the strategic deterrent of the CONUS, the PLA however must assume tactical nuclear weapons to be in situ, and so the CSG is hauling its own tactical deterrent around with it as it goes.

The Russians also employ tactical nuclear weapons at Kaliningrad, again, as a shield. Basically, anything of strategic interest, which you would none the less not wish to defend with your strategic deterrent, can be defended by tactical nuclear weapons in situ. Defensive is employment, employment is usage, ergo, tac nukes are used all the time.

Tactical nukes have been used as what is called an "enabler", the presence of the weapons effecting the battle space nary a shot fired. Example, the Russians have just used tactical nukes in Crimea, as per the aforementioned Deescalation method, as a shield rather than a sword.

To wit, if you take a hit from a German DM63 APFSDS-T, that hits hard, but not that hot. If you get hit by an M829, that hits hard, and hot, nuclear hot.

The radiological effect is upon impact, as tungsten is not incendiary while uranium is, the radiologic is heat, not neutrons,

Depleted uranium is an Radiological Weapon, nuclear weapons begin at the point of critical mass, single stage plutonium implosion, and/or two stage plutonium implosion to incite lithium deuteride fusion. Single stage; nuclear (Fat Man at Nagasaki) Two stage; thermonuclear. (Castle Bravo at Eniwetok) There is a third option, single stage uranium "shotgun" critical mass (Little Boy at Hiroshima), but it's so inefficient, it is likely only non state actors would employ that method now. Basically, the Manhattan Project went on two parallel tracks, Little Boy was one, Fat Man was the other, through trial and error they found out that uranium was expensive and difficult and inefficient, while plutonium was cheap and easy, so they ditched the Little Boy model and simply expended the prototype down range into Aioi Bridge hypercenter Hiroshima.

I grew up in Corso Italia, which is the only Italians who counted, because all that matters is Toronto, rule Toronto; rule the Confederation, the only other ridings of significance are the ones in Quebec which could bring Confederation crashing down. If you are an Italian living in Moosejaw, you don't matter, just like everybody else outside of the GTA. Otherwise known as an Asymmetrical Dictatorship.

CONOPS; we are attempting to free a people held behind an Iron Curtain, as many as we can at any given time, but not by force of arms, by market forces, the free market of ideas which their soviet cannot hold back, same as it ever was, free all the slaves everywhere, war for civilization itself in progress. While I could decamp to America if I wished, I simply remain behind the lines, an SF tasking in essence, see; Foreign Internal Defense

Well, the Canadian soviet cannot shoot its Empress, she is protected by UKUSSA, so they're stuck with her. So what Canadian soviets do is build an Eskimo Communist Potemkin Village in order to blind Canadians to the fact that they don't have to live in it if they don't want to. Otherwise known as an Iron Curtain.

It was the same in the Soviet Union, it's the Beatles & Bluejeans effect. Stop looking at Canada as if it is a Western Country, the House of Windsor is the country, Canada is a soviet.

Yes, play acting. Canada is a Potemkin Village, an Eskimo Communist gulag holding the people down lest they reach for the light of civilization and forsake their CBC overlords. Instinctively tho, all peoples yearn to breath free, so the Canadians mimic it where they see it, although freedom still frightens them, Eskimo Communism having indoctrinated them to fear it as all communism does.

Well it's a better narrative, Canadian Confederation is not what Eskimo Communism asserts it to be, it's not a nation and it doesn't have a narrative. The Shot Heard Round The World simply fills the void of the Eskimo Communism fake narratives.

I don't view crown corporations as being Marxist, as Marxism is to oppose crowns and corporations. It's not the same as Venezuela because Venezuela nationalized foreign capital, primarily American, whereas Canadian crown corporations do not do that.

There is really only one significant difference, Americans know the central narrative of their history and are steeped in their national religion, Canadians don't know the central narrative of their history and have no national religion but ice hockey.

And what the 1983 War Scare showed us, was that even when the Russians had a false warning that made no sense, which was one American ICBM being launched at them at a time, one, then another, then another, which was not a logical strike profile. . . . . . every single officer in the chain of command except one guy, wanted to retaliate, massively, and they were egging it on, because they said "we can't see the rest of the American missiles, they are coming at us right now from all direction, our early warning just sucks, so we can't see them'. And so it was only Stan Petrov who saved the world, simply declining to tell the Kremlin what was going on, so they couldn't launch on warning. Therein lies the problem with Russian faulty early warning, or simply lack of any effective early warning to make them confident that they can see the Americans coming. And just like you are unlikely to get Mikhail Gorbachev and One World Kumbaya every time you go to the well, you're unlikely to get Stan Petrov every time as well.

There's also a flexible response option where the 1st Guards Tank Army falls in on its Zapad prepared launching position in Belarus, escalating Cold War Two to the trace at Suwalki, before Ivan even crosses it, and then the pressure just builds as the INF paranoia builds, which is what happened on the Inner German Border and Fulda Gap in the so called 1983 War Scare.

To wit, the posture in the West is the end game here is going to be Gorbachev 2.0 takes over. But this is not Gorbachev, this is Czar Nicolas II With 20/20 hindsight of what happens to Czar Putin if he is naive enough to come peacefully upon regime change pressure applied.

And this is not like the Soviets at all, the Soviets went peacefully because no one man was responsible for it, nobody was going to be executed for the crimes of the Soviet Union, so there was no personage of the state which would have to protect its life from the fall of the Soviet Union. Whereas now, Putin is a de facto Czar. And he has no successor. Which means he ain't planning to retire, ever.

And therein lies the problem at the strategic level, in that despotic regimes do not prosper, and despots cannot rule forever, so while Putin is emulating his idol Stalin, Stalin didn't last, so this is why Putin is so paranoid. There is no peaceful transfer of power. So Putin is cornered by default. And nobody knows what he would do when the noose starts to tighten.

This would likely only come to pass in what is called the Leningrad Rat Bites His Tamer scenario, where Putin is cornered and then comes swinging to incite a crisis to prop himself up.

Anyways, back to the Suwalki Gap, or Sulwalki Corridor, the Russian's don't have the horses yet, but it's quite clear that they are preparing and building a force which serves no other purpose in the Western District, but to drive on Suwalki, a classic Soviet operation which was already done in the Second World War. The formations in question are the 1st Guards Tank Army at Odintsvo, 6th Combined Arms Army at St. Petersburg, and the 20th Combined Arms Army at Voronezh Again, arms race in progress, wait out.

But this is what Government by the Elites looks like. This is what it has always looked like, see; House of Bourbon

And Climate Barbie so nails that vacuous Dingbat McKenna as well, she is Bimbo Queen to Trudeau's Himbo King.

That's why Zoolander is such a perfect meme. It literally is the Justin Trudeau Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good ( And Who Wanna Learnt To Do Other Stuff Good Too )

It's funny how you're being told off about nuclear weapons by a dork in his mom's basement. Nelson; ha-ha.