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I would say that any power with nukes is not a regional player, considering they can blow up the whole planet. Russia also has significant influence in the midd

• coldtea 7y ago
  >I would say that any power with nukes is not a regional player, considering they can blow up the whole planet. Well, any power with nukes doesn't want to use them and be obliterated in return. Their advantage is you can't be arbitrarily invaded and pushed over whenever some power feels like it when you have them...
• checkyoursudo 7y ago
  Like South Africa in the 1980s or whenever they had nukes? Or possibly North Korea now? It seems reasonable to classify a country as a regional power while still having nuclear weapons. Just because you could wreck the world doesn't really mean that you can get anyone else to do what you want.