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Dulfite on 15 November 2015
| Zekkyou said: Never going to happen. Absolutely no developed nation wants to set a post-WW2 precedent for the aggressive use of nukes. Even ignoring that though, it would just make the situation worse. A lot of ISIS's propaganda revolves around painting the rest of the world as evil, and a nuke (and all the innocent deaths it would likely entail) would be a very effective way of convincing people in the region that they're right. |
Russia isn't and doesn't consider itself Western. It doesn't focus on global ramifcations or perception. It marches to the beat of its own drum like it has for hundreds of years and like the people that have lived in that area for thousands of years. They were hit, now they want to hit back hard. I'd be stunned if Putin was even thinking about or concerned with how a response like this will impact the muslisms perception of the west. I doubt they care.
