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France/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 existe
by MagnumOpus 5y ago
France/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.