re: #247 Chrysicat

You followed it just fine.

Why would this total war not go nuclear?

Do you think that they’d scorch our earth instead if they were brought to bear after a war they started? Like I said, we won’t first-strike. Ever. Again.

That’s not what ‘brought to bear’ means, but yeah, I think if we and Russia were fighting a ‘total war’ they’d go nuclear, at least tactically. Why don’t you?

I don’t get this belief of yours that Russia is simultaneously crazy evil and stupid enough to try to fight the US in a conventional total war but not crazy evil and stupid enough to use nukes.