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A land war in Europe is not viable by conventional means anyway. We're not going to fight door to door. Not that again. It's good for the border countries to h
by wkat4242 2y ago
A land war in Europe is not viable by conventional means anyway. We're not going to fight door to door. Not that again.
It's good for the border countries to have a deterrent and we in Western Europe should support them on this. But the nuclear umbrella should be the main deterrent.
- fifilura 2y agoI think states are more and more learning to navigate under the nuclear umbrella. The method is small doses of escalation. Which means that it is never the time to press the button. We have lots of conflicts involving nuclear states (USA, India, Pakistan, China, Russia, Israel Great Britain) but never since 1945 has it been used.
- heneryville 2y agoThere is literally a land war in Europe happening right now. It's happening door to door too.
- wkat4242 2y agoYeah I meant EU/NATO Europe of course. Once Russia gets into the EU or NATO bloc it gets huge obviously. Because of article 5. As for Ukraine I didn't forget Ukraine was still very much aligned with Russia in the early 2000s (and an oligarchy like Russia that attacked the EU with similar tactics like ransomware). They only started repenting in the 2010s. I feel like this is a more complicated issue because of that. They could have joined when the Baltics did but they didn't want to, they were very firmly in the Pro Russia camp. Then they could have had a lot more protection.