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Idiom: Go nuclear
While at first blush, the idea of going nuclear may be an extremely delicate topic for some Japanese, the term itself is more of a euphemism for extremism.
If you go nuclear, you become outraged and use force to the full extent of being extreme and perhaps in an irrational way.
Imagine a husband has stepped out on his loving wife.
She will then go nuclear on his a**.
That wife will focus all of her energy, and women have more energy than men, on revenge – hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
The divorce will be highly antagonistic.
She will take him for everything he is worth, and he will be lucky to have two pennies to rub together by the time it is over.
That’s one example.
Next, we’ll look at the Russo-Ukraine war.
Yes, I have referred to it so many times during the last month, but it presents us with many opportunities to learn.
NATO (nay toe) has gone nuclear on Russia without shooting off a single rocket.
If the aim of war is to destroy your enemy without being killed yourself, then NATO may have accomplished that goal.
Instead of becoming embroiled in a shooting war, the Western world has chosen to go nuclear on Russia’s economy.
The sanctions unleashed over the last few weeks have greatly hampered Russia’s ability to earn income and may ultimately bankrupt them in the next few weeks.
Instead of beginning with gentle sanctions and ramping them up, NATO went all the way right away.
They went nuclear on Russia’s economy.
Going nuclear doesn’t always require nuclear weapons.
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