Unfortunately, human psychology is such that retaliation is always seen as worthwhile. There are famous behavioural economics experiments where people willingly accept less in order to punish someone… (View Post)

Well, to gain an idea of the other way of doing it: all we have to do is assure Putin that if he fires his nukes, we will, under no circumstances, fire back. Even if he rains nuclear fire on London a… (View Post)

Indeed. According to @PJohnson 's claims, Putin has to be a total fool. Because there was no risk of that before, and now there is a distinct risk of it. This could end up with Ukraine in NATO, in th… (View Post)

I've got zero faith in his good nature stopping him. Or his generals, or anyone else in the command chain. Again, not ideal, but the fact that everyone in the command chain would know they're killing… (View Post)

Having Trident available - and known to be available to the other side - is actually quite a relief when nuclear weapons are pointed at you. After all, it's not as though not having them is any prote… (View Post)