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The lack of Russia rolling over all of Eastern Europe is a pretty decent benefit.
by Filligree 2y ago
The lack of Russia rolling over all of Eastern Europe is a pretty decent benefit.
- exe34 2y agoso you just need the nukes then?
- macintux 2y agoUnclear. Current evidence is that nukes are insufficient, and given the non-trivial chance that the next U.S. administration would pull out of NATO, it’s not even obvious that the nukes would be a factor.
- exe34 2y agoit's okay, the UK and France have enough between us to glass Moscow.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Current evidence is that nukes are insufficient, and given the non-trivial chance that the next U.S. administration would pull out of NATO Isn’t this evidence of nukes being necessary?
- macintux 2y agoIt’s not evidence of nukes being sufficient, which was the original question.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> It’s not evidence of nukes being sufficient Someone else’s nukes being insufficient. The last few years have shown nuclear powers are inviolable, to the point of causing allies of non-nuclear powers being violated by them drawing red lines in the violator’s defence.
- exe34 2y agoalthough over the last week, the Kievan Rus has been liberating Kursk from the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
- skywhopper 2y agoNo. If we only had nukes, Russia would have little to fear from invading neighboring countries with conventional weapons. Have our nukes stopped them from doing so now?
- exe34 2y agoare these neighbouring countries in NATO now?