Russia's modernization of it's tactical nukes is very troubling. Their new subs also cannot be detected.
Russia is positioning itself to fight and win a nuclear war. This line of thinking is very dangerous. With obama in the white hut, their thinking is not that far off.
obama would never retaliate is russia used a couple of tatical weapons. Putin knows it.
“obama would never retaliate is russia used a couple of tatical weapons. Putin knows it.”
And the thing is, TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE to armchair warmongers, is that a could of 1kt’s would do limited military damage (relative speaking), but would be the COMPLETE END to us ever thinking that we can go toe-to-toe with Russia. Europe would IMMEDIATELY realize that, despite the bravery of the Polish Calvary on their horses, spears will not stop tactical (or Intermediate, or Strategic) nukes, and Europe WILL QUICKLY realize just who their new masters are.
What they (i.e., the warmongers here) cannot understand, unfortunately, is that the ENTIRE REASON for having a SERIOUS DETERRENT is so you DO NOT have to use it, and Europe (along with Asia) realize that they can rely on you.
We have punted that away in the past two decades, and I see NOTHING in this thread that seems to show any concern about that (other than yourself).
And they did it with our taxpayer money, cool huh? (Money we appropriated to destroy all those old nukes was spent modernizing those old nukes into new nukes.)