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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by DrBazza on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:27AM (#30589743)
Eh? France and the UK have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the population centres of Russia. Let's be frank, as much as the Geneva Convention says 'play nice', if nuclear weapons are involved, are you going to use them to bomb an airbase in Siberia, or hit Red Square dead centre? That's enough.
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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by MagnumOpus on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:57AM (#30590201)
France/UK have enough so that an attack on France/UK can cause unacceptable losses for Russia (the loss of 5-25 of its biggest cities) at the cost of the existence of the entirety of France/UK after Russian retaliation.

But let's say Russia uses tactical nukes to kill a Polish air base or an Italian carrier or an Estonian infantry division? Would BoJo or Macron press the button and consign his nation to nuclear destruction? No he certainly wouldn't.

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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by michaelt on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:44PM (#30590923)
That's not a number-of-nukes problem, though. That's a threat credibility problem.

If France won't launch their 300 warheads, they wouldn't launch if they had 3,000 either.

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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by stjohnswarts on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:33PM (#30591527)
You seriously think the French wouldn't launch at Russia if Russia launched first?
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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by michaelt on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:22PM (#30592181)
I didn't say that.

I said that, if MagnumOpus believes the French wouldn't launch, that's not relevant to dragonwriter's observation the EU doesn't have many warheads, which DrBazza was replying to.

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Re:Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tell... by YawningAngel on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:35PM (#30590792)
Would Biden?
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