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There should always be plenty of doubt in your mind if you're saying that the US will use nukes in any situation short of someone else using them first.
by jaywalk 5y ago
There should always be plenty of doubt in your mind if you're saying that the US will use nukes in any situation short of someone else using them first.
- gambiting 5y agoThe difference is that US is actually putting their troops and equipment in Poland though. I also think that attack on Poland would trigger full out response by US.
- the_snooze 5y agoPoland is a NATO state. An attack on Poland would trigger World War 3 because the whole alliance is set up to jump in.
- mrep 5y agoI really doubt it. Most likely NATO would destroy any all Russian forces that enter Polish soil but not push further out past the border and escalate. No need to start WW3.
- LudwigNagasena 5y agoThe US is the only country that used nukes.
- jaywalk 5y agoCompletely irrelevant.
- jacquesm 5y agoNo, in fact very relevant. Not in the way the OP probably meant it though.
- gumby 5y agoThe UK is the only other nuclear power to have detonated nukes on the territory of another country.
- pirate787 5y agoAmong other things, those experimental first bombs were a totally different class of weapons from today's nuclear arsenal. There were conventional bombings in WWII that killed more people than the nuclear bombings.
- JohnBooty 5y agoThis isn't even a remotely similar situation. The biggest difference is that last time around, we were the only people with nukes and (agree with the decision, or not) it was a war ending use of nukes, with zero chance of starting a world war, nuclear or otherwise.
- gumby 5y agoThe US has explicitly refused to adopt a no first use posture. Ditto Russia, UK, France, the other nuclear powers involved. That being said, it’s a Rubicon all, will be reluctant to cross.