How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry

Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by rusk on Monday November 10, 2025 @05:14AM (#45874432)

Russia aren’t going to use nukes on their own doorstep. That’s a a NATO problem. It’s like openly knifing somebody in public repeatedly while holding the would be hero’s at bay with a gun. Yes this is an actual thing that happened in the UK about 10 years ago.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by scott_w on Monday November 10, 2025 @05:55AM (#45874684)

Um... Russia's doctrine during the Cold War was to turn Poland into a nuclear wasteland to stop Nato advancing through it. At the time, Poland was a part of the USSR.

What Russia considers "a buffer zone" is really "inferior peoples we can atomise without having to open a new conflict with a foreign power." To be clear, I use the term "inferior peoples" as seen from the Russian point of view.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by kelipso on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:35AM (#45876423)

Poland was part of the Warsaw Pact but it was never in the USSR.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by greedo on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:42PM (#45879266)

You've got it reversed...

Soviet doctrine (not Russian) was to use tactical nuclear weapons immediately during their attempt to invade West Germany and march to the Atlantic.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by scott_w on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:39PM (#45879950)

I’ve been looking and you are correct, though I do recall seeing something different, so perhaps what I read was misinterpreting the Seven Days to the Rhine plan.

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