As a swordsman said, "A truly sharp sword is often hidden in the sheath." Nuclear power is the last shield of a country. Just like the treasures hidden in the home, it is generally not easily shown to others. So, why is Russia eager to show its nuclear power to the U.S.-led NATO this time on the issue of Ukraine?
nuclear bomb has allowed humans to see its terrifying power since the day it was born. Therefore, except for Japan who was fortunate to try its edge, other countries have regarded it as Satan without exception. Human beings know that once the nuclear war breaks out, it will be the demise of the entire human race. Therefore, human beings have enjoyed a rare peace situation for more than half a century under this terrifying nuclear balance. Now, in the United Nations member states, as major countries, basically all have nuclear countries. Needless to say, the five permanent members, including India and Pakistan are all nuclear countries. However, nuclear weapon has not played any role except as a deterrent. This is actually a symbol of a country's national strength. The cost of preserving a nuclear bomb is not something we can imagine, and the time and money required to deal with a nuclear bomb and even clean up the nuclear material inside is not something a small country can afford.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, facing the huge nuclear arsenal left by the former Soviet Union, Russia, as the main successor, was happy and worried. What was happy was that these huge nuclear arsenals were Russia's continued status as a major power and had an influential guarantee internationally. What was worried was that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's economy was on the verge of collapse after "shock therapy", and the country had no financial resources to maintain such a money-consuming family foundation. Therefore, many weapons were left to rust and abandoned in the arsenal. Therefore, Russia basically had no sense of existence internationally throughout the 1990s, especially in the First Chechen War, the Russian army was beaten to pieces and was ridiculed internationally.
The turning point of the matter After the millennium, after President Putin took office, he vigorously revitalized Russia's status as a major power, especially the restoration of the economy, and achieved certain results. However, the Russian economy attaches too much importance to relying on energy exports and is very single, resulting in the total volume of Russia's GDP 2 hovering outside the top ten in the world all year round, and is even further behind South Korea in 2021. Therefore, without the support of strong national strength, Russia can only vigorously improve the quality and strike power of nuclear weapons, and cannot pursue balance with the United States in quantity. As the world's largest nuclear warfare country, the United States and Russia have 800 and 757 strategic intercontinental missiles, and both retain more than 6,000 nuclear warheads .
As the saying goes: Make a fortune in silence, why does Russia show off its nuclear power at any time? The reason is very simple. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia originally wanted to rely on the advantage of a major power to launch a blitzkriculture against Ukraine, and wanted to win the war as quickly as possible, achieving a limited and rapid war similar to the occupation of Crimea and defeat Georgia . However, with the strife of the war, something Russia did not want to see happened. On the one hand, Western countries led by the United States adopted severe sanctions on Russia, and even continued to transport weapons and equipment and other assistance to Ukraine; on the other hand, the Russian army was deeply trapped in the Ukrainian war, which had an important impact on the hearts of the military and the people.
From the perspective of the Russian army's strategy and tactics and even equipment, they basically inherited the tradition of the Soviet era. They did not adapt to the development of war under the new situation. They continued to believe in the encirclement of large corps in tactics, and their weapons and equipment were mainly old-fashioned equipment such as T72 tank . This has led to the increasing casualties of the Russian army under the assistance of new Western weapons. Faced with the new Western equipment, old Russian army tanks and weapons have almost no ability to resist. The Russian army has not launched an attack on important cities for a long time. In addition to considering the casualties of civilians, it also considers that siege will cause huge casualties to the Russian army. Sun Tzu's Art of War said, "The superior army attacks the plan, the second is to attack the diplomatic relations, the second is to attack the troops again, and the lowest is to attack the city."
Siege is something that any commander and army do their best to avoid. Looking back at Stalingrad Battle , the most elite Sixth Army in Nazi Germany was dragged down by two broken Soviet armies in Stalingrad and fell into endless street fighting, winning time for the Soviet army's final counterattack, and eventually causing the turning point of World War II . Therefore, it is impossible for the Russian army that inherited the Soviet army to have no reference to history. Faced with the Ukrainian army giving up more and more boundaries and huddled into the city, while Western aid continued to enter Ukraine, making the Ukrainian army's resistance stronger. Ukraine has increasingly embodied the principle of procrastination at the negotiating table. After four negotiations, President Putin has become increasingly aware that Ukraine hopes to drag the Russian army into the vast ocean of people's war, and on the one hand, it will gain more and more support from the West. However, can this idea of the Ukrainian government be realized?
Throughout history, governments that win the hearts of the people can often use people's war to deal with powerful foreign enemies. So we have to ask whether the Ukrainian government wins the hearts of the people? The answer is no. At the beginning of the outbreak of the Ukrainian War, there were reports that Ukrainian oligarchs took a chartered flight to flee Ukraine, and senior Ukrainian government officials fought with each other to make profits for themselves. Before gaining independence, Ukraine was the richest republic of the Soviet Union, , and its strength was second only to the Russian Federation. After independence, it not only abandoned its own martial arts and abandoned a large number of weapons and equipment left over from the Soviet Union, including nuclear weapons; it also gradually declined under the economy and lost a large number of people. While a large amount of domestic resources are occupied by oligarchs, politicians only think about their own interests.
internal factors have a decisive role. If they cannot get the support of their own people, they cannot hold the Russian army back in any case. However, although the Russian army has implemented battlefield discipline to the best of its ability, according to the news obtained, there has been no incident of shooting civilians in the Russian army, but is still providing emergency humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainian people. But despite this, the Ukrainian army's organized resistance was still underway. After all, the Ukrainian government did not flee abroad. The Ukrainian army was still implementing the order to defend the country, and the support of the West also made them see hope. In this case, the Russian army's casualties increased day by day, and the bargaining chips they wanted to get from the negotiating table also became slim due to the delay of the Ukrainian government.
And Western sanctions are increasingly making Russia isolated. Therefore, it is a different point of distributing strategic nuclear forces at this time, especially to announce that the nuclear strategic deterrent forces "enter a special combat readiness state". On the one hand, Russia hopes that Western countries will not continue to interfere in the Russian-Ukrainian war, otherwise everyone will die together; on the other hand, it also shocks the Ukrainian government, causing it to abandon its fantasy and return to the negotiating table of Russia's hope as soon as possible, that is, demilitarization and abandon joining NATO.
Currently, Russia has a trinity nuclear force, among which the most powerful of Russia's strategic nuclear force is the road-based ballistic missile force of strategic rocket . The missile of Strategic Rocket Force can ensure that all the territories of major countries in the world are included in their attack range, making it difficult for its potential opponents, the United States and NATO countries, to be afraid to be afraid. Especially in recent years, as President Putin's measures to restore the economy are becoming more and more apparent, as Russia's economic situation improves, its military equipment is updated and replaced faster, especially the strategic rocket forces can gradually be a group of troops that are parallel to the army, navy and air force.
Its special types of missiles include: Poplar M series ballistic missiles, and the new RS-24 Yars type ballistic missiles are all weapons with powerful assault capabilities; and underwater nuclear power Russia currently owns Delta-class nuclear submarines, especially the terrifying North Wind God-class nuclear submarine. At that time, it was even rumored that Russia would rather sell Kremlin than use this type of submarine h The terrible thing about the submarine was imagined. The submarine's secret nature and elusive attack characteristics further aggravated Russia's deterrence to the West; in terms of air-based nuclear power, it is mainly the 博95博 and 160 strategic bombers. This time, it was this aircraft that was called "white swan" by NATO. Its supersonic assault capability left a deep impression on all countries.
can the dispatch of strategic nuclear forces open up a new situation for Russia as soon as possible? In the author's opinion, it can only play a certain role, and the problem will be solved in the end depends on the increase and decrease of strength. After all, strength is the decisive factor that determines the bargaining chips at the negotiating table. German iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck once said that "the truth is always within the range of the cannon." If it is not obtained on the battlefield, it is difficult to obtain it on the negotiating table again. Therefore, Russia dispatches strategic forces and in addition to using nuclear bombs, it only strikes tactical targets. If Ukraine's biological forces are not completely eliminated, not only will the Russian military's supply line be threatened, but it will also make it difficult for Ukraine to reverse the situation of resistance.
Therefore, it mainly depends on the game between major powers. At present, Russia has not opened up the situation in the diplomatic battlefield, economic battlefield and even in the United Nations. Judging from the reports, it is still a passive defense situation. If we do not make any breakthroughs in the overall situation, but freeze the thinking pattern on the small battlefield of Ukraine, it is relatively short-sighted. Therefore, we must completely open up the situation and cannot rely entirely on strategic nuclear forces to intimidate, because as a force that cannot be easily shown, it appears more frequently, just like the fable "Wolf is here", and everyone will not believe it. Mr. Qian once said back then that " atomic bomb is useless, which is more safe than not without preparation." However, since China used nuclear weapons, it has increased our status as a great power, but we have never easily taken it out to intimidate others. We believe in the principle of independence, self-reliance, peace and diplomacy, and rely on dialogue and negotiation to resolve crises.
From the root of everything, we must strengthen our own economic construction and increase the country's influence. As China's total GDP has remained firmly ranked second in the world, China's soft power diplomacy, such as Confucius Institute , was established in countries around the world, and its cultural influence is far more conquering people's hearts than military forces. The seal is not far away. The mainstream of world development is peace and development. Only by following the historical trend will it be recognized by the world.
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