I used to listen to a podcast from Latvia that reported on the war in Ukraine, I can’t remember the name of the show, sorry. The guy seemed to be very knowledgeable about Russia and one thing he stressed was while the Russian military was corrupt and inept, the troops involved with nukes were still highly educated and hand picked and trained by people from within the corps.

Given the dead-hand policy, that’s easily the most dangerous mindset I’ve read on Lemmy.

It should make you more worried, lest faulty equipment leads to another incident like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

And we don’t have someone like Stanislav Petrov literally risking his neck to save civilization.