[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Exactly. I am mystified why so many Freepers are dazzled by Putin and adopt the “don’t poke the bear” idiocy that the Putin regime like to foster to demoralise the population in the west and make them so terrified in the West that they can do whatever the hell they want.

As you say, Britain is also a nuclear armed state and Russia isnt going to be stupid enough to provoke Britain into launching a nuclear counter attack in response to dropping a bucket of sunshine on London, especially one that is also a NATO state. That is why nuclear deterrence is a thing, and it works both ways.

[Alberta's Child]

The following items from the Hitchens piece posted above should be etched in stone. Note the highlighted item that applies to a few Freepers who survived the purges and self-exile of the mid-2000s because they dared to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

I also find it awkward that, when Britain and the USA rightly denounced Putin's illegal invasion of a sovereign country, they seemed to have forgotten that we gave him the idea, by doing this in Iraq in 2003. Unlike them I can truly claim to have opposed both these actions.

I tire of being told that Nato is purely defensive alliance when we know it bombed Serbia in 1999, incidentally killing civilians, when Serbia had not attacked a Nato member.

I also don't recall Libya attacking a Nato member before that 'defensive' alliance launched the air war on Tripoli which also killed civilians, children included, and turned that country into a cauldron of chaos, benefiting nobody.

[Erik Latranyi]

As you say, Britain is also a nuclear armed state and Russia isnt going to be stupid enough to provoke Britain into launching a nuclear counter attack in response to dropping a bucket of sunshine on London, especially one that is also a NATO state. That is why nuclear deterrence is a thing, and it works both ways.

It is funny that you think the UK or US would retaliate.

[cgbg]

One side has a robust and updated civilian civil defense.

One side does not.

That is why nuclear deterrence is a dead concept—Ozzie and Harriet stuff.