Cool thanks John, now that I've read these three tweets I am now more experienced in geopolitics than the entire US State Department and all the faggots employed therein. Fuck you.
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This is a lie. Well this is Wu-standard getting basic facts completely fucking wrong, but the story he is trying to parrot is a lie.
The "Russian officer who stopped armageddon" just stopped an issue from escalating up the chain of command because he knew their early alert system was complete shit. If he'd have said "Holy shit we're being nuked we need to respond!" the launch decision needed to go through at least 3 more levels of Russian military command before the Premier would have no/no go'd the strike.
If you actually listen to his story, and not a summary/selected snippets meant to continue to enact the soviet propaganda meant to make people in the West scared of nuclear devices, he says he didn't escalate the warning because
1) There was no news of any political tensions between the two countries.
2) The launch was so small; if the US was launching a surprise attack it would have been bigger.
3) He not only knew their early warning system was shit, but they had a better one, and that one wasn't detecting massive launches.
Basically he didn't make some conscious decision to save the world from nuclear fire - he just didn't want to wake his boss over some bullshit system glitch.
Our current arsenal of Nuclear weapons are from the 80s. For John "Multi-factor" Wu, you think the godzilla of tech feminism would be 100% on board with us updating and upgrading our weapons of peace.
If you want to know who brought the world the closest to nuclear war, you can blame
those goddamn fucking warmongering Norwegians.