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Even one nuke is a big threat for a non-nuclear country, but Russia is not the only one with nukes, so number of well maintained nukes in service is important,
by oneshtein 2y ago
Even one nuke is a big threat for a non-nuclear country, but Russia is not the only one with nukes, so number of well maintained nukes in service is important, if RF want to win a war with nukes. It will be pretty dumb for RF to strike FIRST with expired nukes.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThere's no winning a war with nukes. Even if 1% are operational, they could devastate the US.
- oneshtein 2y agoWar with imperial Japan was won with nukes.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoBecause Japan had exactly zero nukes to send back at the US. Russia has 2000. What percentage of them are you willing to gamble are working? Are 10% of them working? That's 200 US cities. So, no. We are absolutely not going to follow your logic. There is too much chance that they have enough nukes working to make us infinitely regret a nuclear exchange.
- oneshtein 2y agoYep, but Ukraine took the risk, invaded RF, and we are still alive.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat is a pretty clear edge case we can’t duplicate today.