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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:34PM (#30532706)
>I think its actually very dangerous for Russia as a state right now. Showing this much weakness might motivate some neighbors. Especially China, they could run through the country all the way to Barents sea without breaking a sweat.

To which I say: Russia has ~half of the world's nuclear arsenal. (The US has ~half, the rest of the nuclear states are mere footnotes by # of nukes, relying on the fact that no one really needs more than about a dozen).

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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:45PM (#30532852)
> Russia has ~half of the world's nuclear arsenal

If this is the state of their conventional military, it raises questions about the state of their nuclear deterrent.

In any case, if China wanted Siberian resources, fomenting a breakaway region would be cleaner than invading.

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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:46PM (#30532876)
>If this is the state of their conventional military, it raises questions about the state of their nuclear deterrent.

A scary fucking thought. i.e. some of them will stay in silos, but others will be partially airworthy.

>In any case, if China wanted Siberian resources, fomenting a breakaway region would be cleaner than invading.

This would result in a nuclear exchange.

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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:52PM (#30532966)
> This would result in a nuclear exchange

Possibly. But the exchange would occur on Russian soil. China is more than capable of covertly supporting separatists. Hell, it might not even have to. Just prime the pump and then let the West take over.

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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by desmosxxx on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:23AM (#30550987)
or they would just nuke chinese cities?
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