Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken

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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