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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by toyg on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:31PM (#30461243)
Gas is important, but what is more important is the nuclear arsenal.

The US, China, Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea, are effectively untouchable by conventional military means, because they are able and willing to unleash nuclear holocaust in return - no matter what they do.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by beecafe on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:43PM (#30461368)
It's not clear that the West is willing.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by xtian on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:27PM (#30461773)
Here's the list of countries which have used nuclear weapons against another country:

- United States

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by eps on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:02PM (#30461545)
+ France and the UK
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by toyg on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:14PM (#30461649)
Those two don't have the resources to project significantly (like superpowers), nor the pressure of border conflict (like the others I mentioned). So their nuclear capabilities are somewhat irrelevant.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by ajnin on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:45PM (#30462394)
Not sure why you think North Korea and Pakistan can project and not France and UK which both have nuclear attack submarines. The heart of nuclear detterrence lies in those submarines that can cause second strike MAD.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by toyg on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:33AM (#30465358)
Unless you think NK is a superpower, you've failed to actually read a one-paragraph post, congratulations.

As for projection capabilities of FR-UK, they are small and old and creaky and everybody knows it.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by ajnin on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:04AM (#30466805)
Sorry but being insulting is not going to make your argument more convincing. Pretending that somehow NK and Pakistan have more nuclear capabilities that FR or UK is a joke.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by selimthegrim on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:59PM (#30463567)
I think Pak is buying theirs from France
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