Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Could the Ukraine war turn into World War III ?" video.

  1. I would only welcome a world conflict if it could be guaranteed to keep nuclear weapons off the table because China can't just genocide people in xinjiang and get away with it simply because they have nuclear weapons But since China is pretty desperate and their military does not have a lot of combat experience; (their last incursion was in 1979 against Vietnam and they failed spectacularly) so I don't imagine that the CCP would be as hesitant as other nuclear capable powers to keep the hands off the button in the event they started losing Still all that said we can't allow to be given into appeasement to an aggressor nation simply because that acting aggressor nation says: "hey I have nukes so you can't hurt me no matter how badly I behave" That's a view I have for all, no matter what nation that is. Be they: Russia, China, America, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. because appeasement is not a permanent solver of conflict it merely delays and emboldens the offender
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  2. In the hypothetical situation of Russia using a nuke in this Ukraine conflict The instant that Russia uses a nuclear weapon they will get the entire condemnation from the rest of the world not even the Russian propagandists would be able to frame that event in a positive light
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  3.  @HK-gm8pe  yeah I can understand your position on that, truly the only thing that they do is completely strategic They serve as deterrent to use which is why they've never really been used in a conflict outside of the closing days of WW2 The only reason why nations want them now is because once you are nuclear armed you never need to fear a conventional invasion from another Nation ever again And that is what makes them so attractive on a geopolitical scale: "I get this one weapon, and suddenly my borders are guaranteed to exist on the map" And in the entire history of nuclear weapons proliferation there's only been two Nations that gave them up South Africa and Ukraine In the case of South Africa they gave them up for less altruistic reasons they kind of gave them up for more racist reasons, as in the outgoing apartheid government didn't want a black majority African country to have nuclear weapons capability And in the case of Ukraine; Ukraine got their weapons as inheritance from their days in the Soviet Union but Ukraine had no capability of using those weapons because the codes for launch were kept exclusively by the Russian government The only thing Ukraine had was physical control to the launch site access, which is why in 1994 they agreed to return those weapons to Russia
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