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>keeping their hand in Just In Case. Just in case of what? Nukes are the perfect defense and the only one you need you said it yourself. You think 4% of the GD

• jfengel 3y ago
  That was what I was trying to explain. Nukes are a blunt weapon, and they want to have a bit more precision. They're not going to nuke Russia if Wagner group made a little, deniable cross-border excursion. Nukes get MAD real fast. If their only weapon is a nuke, their bluff could easily be called. Very few countries spend 4% of GDP on the military, and most of them are at war. Not even the US, which comes in at 3.5%. NATO countries are supposed to spend (IIRC) 2%, but most don't. It's a 2% that they might like to have back, but militaries are pretty good make-work programs. Even Japan, whose constitution prevents it from having a military, still spends 1% on its military.