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Could Russia’s Sudden Ukraine Retreat Mean A Tactical Nuclear Weapons Strike Is Coming?
19FortyFive ^
| 9/10/2022
| Michael Rubin
Posted on 09/10/2022 5:04:54 PM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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How would NATO respond? Would they respond? What would Biden do? These are the days I miss Trump as this would never have occured.
To: whyilovetexas111
In the same vein and just as relevant: “Is a huge asteroid about to crash into Earth?”
To: whyilovetexas111
How would NATO respond? Would they respond?
No.
What would Biden do?
Sshit himself
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:11:49 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: whyilovetexas111
Do you think Biden would really be the one to decide? That would be more of a top-down Russian way of doing things.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:12:23 PM PDT
by
familyop
("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
To: struggle
Biden to Joint Chiefs: “Call Trump and see what he would do. Then do the opposite.”
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:13:06 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
To: familyop
Wonder if their rusty old things would even work?
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:14:09 PM PDT
by
JJBookman
(Hope we don't find out. )
To: whyilovetexas111
I wouldn’t put it past the Ukrainians to put one in the middle of the Kremlin, although I wouldn’t advise it.
To: whyilovetexas111
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:14:44 PM PDT
by
familyop
("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
To: whyilovetexas111
I wondered about this also.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:16:20 PM PDT
by
redgolum
(If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
To: redgolum
WE need to say it more: If Trump were POTUS .....
To: whyilovetexas111
To: JJBookman
“Wonder if their rusty old things would even work?”
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Would you hold an old hand grenade, pull the pin, release the safety lever but continue to hold onto the body of the grenade without throwing it?
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:22:56 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
To: whyilovetexas111
The Russians may be belligerent but they aren't stupid. What's the upside when Ukrainian forces are too dispersed for a tac nuke to be effective? There are many downsides, the primary one being almost immediate NATO airstrikes on Russian forces in Ukraine and probably full mobilization by Poland, threatening both Kaliningrad and Byelorussia.
It would also start a panic inside Russia with millions trying to get out of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
They could threaten NATO states with nukes, but they know any such attack would mean comparable Russian targets would be hit in response.
Lots of possible negatives and no upsides.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:24:39 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: SuperLuminal
Right now, my fingers are crossed:
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:26:28 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: struggle
LOL You think Biden would be calling the shots. That senile pants crapper decides nothing.
The DOD is running on autopilot and they have probably a dozen contingency plans that would immediately go into effect without anyone trying to consult the pants-crapper or President Ron Klain.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:27:55 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: whyilovetexas111
So rather than withdraw back to their side of the border, they would go tac-nukes?
The world would then cower and kneel before them and let them take that neighbor with the expectation that would satisfy that sort of madness and Russia would no longer have the bloodlust for empire?
When I was artillery I had a nuke clearance.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:31:42 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: whyilovetexas111
Our great grand children would be asking what was Russia?
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:34:35 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:40:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: JJBookman
The Russians destroyed most of them. About all that they might have remaining of the old tube artillery stuff that would work in vehicles or towed units with some mobility would be some 152 mm warheads. They would lack range with those, and the yields would have decreased in storage—something less than one kiloton.
If they fired even one of those, the consequences would be more than they could stand. They’ve already shown their dirty side to the world in too many ways. They’re terrible at public affairs. No one wants to be invaded or ruled by them.
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:41:56 PM PDT
by
familyop
("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
To: familyop
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posted on
09/10/2022 5:43:48 PM PDT
by
Levy78
(Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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