Like I said, there are a lot of people how are very active thinker sensitive to ideas and like to predict future with their young inexperienced mind. They jump at every little info, and always churn out these unrealistically extreme bright and/or extreme dark future. It's jittery and annoying (一惊一乍）.
What if Russia tell China he has discovered some manufacture “defects” in the air-to-ground munitions for Su-40MKK and issued a recall?
Regime change or worst, breakup of Russian Federation, or losing Central Asia
My parents lived through the Cultural Revolution and have some horror stories to tell
It's all a theoretically discussion still as we haven't witness an all-out nuclear war yet.
Nobody really knows for sure other than it would be catastrophic on an unfathomable scale.
Extinction of humanity, questionable. Collapse of civilization, very likely.
My take on the least grim outcome: There won't be any real winners, just unluckly survivers in fast declining numbers due to radiation (both short and long term fallout), other sickness, starvation (nuclear winter and nuclear famine ) and lots of other nightmarish hardship for decades and even centuries to come.
To believe in less severe consequences is a fallacy in my opinion. Most likely it will be far worse than this.
Lots of academic papers on nuclear war out there in addition to the various wikipedia articles already mentioned.
Only a few outliers advocate that an all-out nuclear war can be won in any meaningful way.
*Note that I wrote an all-out nuclear war, not a limited nuclear war between two adversaries (which according to most simulations done never stay limited anyways).
Enough off-topic
Well, you got me to read up on stuff I haven't touched for ages with some interesting new takes in the recent decade.
Peace talks are just for a show. Nothing would come out of it until battlefield victories are clear.
It isn't about Russia is winning or Russia must win. Zelenskyy can't give in to Russian demands at the moment especially Ukrainian military has demonstrated its determination to fight. Russia can't accept a pull back right now until its political and military objectives are achieved. Both sides have dug in for the war.
Occupation of Vietnam will drain precious funds and attentions from more pressing things like developing the economy
That's a very western centric view. Most of the worlds population in Asia, Africa, South America would be unaffected.It's all a theoretically discussion still as we haven't witness an all-out nuclear war yet.
Nobody really knows for sure other than it would be catastrophic on an unfathomable scale.
Extinction of humanity, questionable. Collapse of civilization, very likely.
My take on the least grim outcome: There won't be any real winners, just unluckly survivers in fast declining numbers due to radiation (both short and long term fallout), other sickness, starvation (nuclear winter and nuclear famine ) and lots of other nightmarish hardship for decades and even centuries to come.
To believe in less severe consequences is a fallacy in my opinion. Most likely it will be far worse than this.
Lots of academic papers on nuclear war out there in addition to the various wikipedia articles already mentioned.
Only a few outliers advocate that an all-out nuclear war can be won in any meaningful way.
*Note that I wrote an all-out nuclear war, not a limited nuclear war between two adversaries (which according to most simulations done never stay limited anyways).
Enough off-topic