Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by chris_wot on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:08PM
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I’ve heard (can’t recall source) that a good proportion of Russia’s nuclear arsenal hasn’t been maintained and is no longer operational.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by mcv on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:28PM
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That is absolutely a possibility, but not a certainty, and a very dangerous gamble to make. That said, Europe probably does need its own nuclear deterrent and its own anti-ballistic missile defense.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by etc-hosts on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:29PM
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They only need one working nuke out of their 6000. I'm sure at least one of them is operational.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by VectorLock on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:03AM
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If they only have one and they use it, they've effectively solved the Russia problem themselves.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by ioblomov on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:25PM
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But is that a game of Russian roulette you'd want to play?
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
by actionfromafar on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:02PM
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No one wants to play that game. The Russians boast about the nuclear bombs, then suddenly goes quiet.
They were going to use them if Ukraine entered Russian soil!
Then they declared that parts of Ukraine was Russia. Ukraine took back some cities on supposedly "holy Russian soil" and nothing happened.
Then Ukraine took a chunk out of (actually) Russian Kursk. Suddenly no talk of nukes for a while.
What would they do with the nukes? Suicide?