Russia - threadbanned users in OP

"Moreover, in March 1981, when the Sunday Tribune reported details of a joint US, NATO plan for Western Europe, it clearly showed that Cork, Bantry, Dublin, Shannon and Belfast would be Soviet targets - Shannon and Dublin airports being vital if NATO air bases on the Continent had been destroyed. The plan assumed that the Soviets believed that, in a war, NATO would take over the country with or without the government's consent.

In December 1983, two members of Northern Ireland CND, Peter Emerson and Paddy McBride, entered the nuclear bunker at Mount Eden in south Belfast. They photographed a map of Ireland showing a number of sites regarded then by the British Ministry of Defence as possible targets in a European nuclear exchange. In Northern Ireland these were Bishopscourt; the radar base at Torr Head, Co Antrim; and the base at Ballykelly, Co Derry. In the Republic there were six sites: Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Cobb, and two points in Donegal including a seastrike at Inistrahull."

I can’t see any other outcome than at least one nation being nuked in 2022

I think that the current Western values we currently hold are reliant upon a surplus of food, energy and water existing. On the hierarchy of needs, you have to have the basic needs covered before you can move onto the loftier self-actualisation goals. Once austerity bites, however, there's more of a drive to 'get with the program' and pull together (or be pushed together) in order to secure the basic resources we need for survival. That means less individualism and less liberty for ordinary people.

My fear is that, based on the current trajectory of the world economy and population, we're setting ourselves up for a situation where authoritarian regimes like Russia and China have a natural advantage. As austerity bites from rising energy costs, and there are more humans competing for resources, China and Russia are better poised to both endure the suffering, and are more whipped into shape by their governments to hold together. Meanwhile, the West would be fighting with itself and in denial about the drop in standards of living, and in that world, China and Russia can move.

So the choice for the West is to either adopt some of the aspects of authoritarian societies to perhaps set ourselves up to adapt to coming austerity, or else find methods of energy production that are cheap and clean so that we can continue with the surplus we currently enjoy.

Russia dont need nuclear bombs in Ukraine - they are killing thousands with all the missile strikes and shelling each night and once the troops and tanks get into Kiev and other cities tens of thousands of Ukrainians will be killed each week if not day .

Russia will use nuclear bombs if they go into Poland or Germany or Western Europe.

These theories about Irish targets all come from old Soviets war plans from 40/50 yrs ago - also there are a lot less nukes now that in the 70/80s with lesser yields - some believe the theories of nuclear winter are a myth and life would return to relative normality in a much lesser time that the doomsday modelling from cold war times

With the accuracy of Russian missiles on display in Ukraine, you’d probably be better standing in Westport town centre if you want to be directly hit.

First signs of corporate russia starting to wake up and speak out... they must know that the writing is on the wall for their balance sheet if west decides to go down the stop buying ALL russian oil route...