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Eh? France and the UK have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the population centres of Russia. Let's be frank, as much as the Geneva Convention says 'play nic
by DrBazza 5y ago
Eh? France and the UK have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the population centres of Russia. Let's be frank, as much as the Geneva Convention says 'play nice', if nuclear weapons are involved, are you going to use them to bomb an airbase in Siberia, or hit Red Square dead centre? That's enough.
- MagnumOpus 5y agoFrance/UK have enough so that an attack on France/UK can cause unacceptable losses for Russia (the loss of 5-25 of its biggest cities) at the cost of the existence of the entirety of France/UK after Russian retaliation. But let's say Russia uses tactical nukes to kill a Polish air base or an Italian carrier or an Estonian infantry division? Would BoJo or Macron press the button and consign his nation to nuclear destruction? No he certainly wouldn't.
- YawningAngel 5y agoWould Biden?
- michaelt 5y agoThat's not a number-of-nukes problem, though. That's a threat credibility problem. If France won't launch their 300 warheads, they wouldn't launch if they had 3,000 either.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoYou seriously think the French wouldn't launch at Russia if Russia launched first?
- michaelt 5y agoI didn't say that. I said that, if MagnumOpus believes the French wouldn't launch, that's not relevant to dragonwriter's observation the EU doesn't have many warheads, which DrBazza was replying to.