How would NATO respond? Would they respond? What would Biden do? These are the days I miss Trump as this would never have occured.
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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
3 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.
4 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: 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
8 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.
9 posted on
09/10/2022 5:16:20 PM PDT by
redgolum
(If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
To: whyilovetexas111
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.
13 posted on
09/10/2022 5:24:39 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.
16 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?
17 posted on
09/10/2022 5:34:35 PM PDT by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: whyilovetexas111
Maybe they could use the Uranium Hillary and O’biden sold them?
22 posted on
09/10/2022 5:47:01 PM PDT by
Glad2bnuts
(Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
To: whyilovetexas111
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine held about one third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world at the time, as well as significant means of its design and production.
In 1993, international relations theorist and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer published an article including his prediction that a Ukraine without any nuclear deterrent was likely to be subjected to aggression by Russia, but this was very much a minority view at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
23 posted on
09/10/2022 5:47:15 PM PDT by
Daaave
('You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.')
To: whyilovetexas111
Russian leaders can assume that NATO would give Ukraine some tactical nukes to respond with.
The entire mess is going to end in Russia’s disintegration so that China can take over the Russian East.
To: whyilovetexas111
26 posted on
09/10/2022 5:50:05 PM PDT by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: whyilovetexas111
To: whyilovetexas111
Heavy odds are for MAD to moderate the itch to deploy nukes, as long as Vlad is sane enough to understand Ukraine is not an existential threat. If he is not, his reasoning could be that no retaliation for tactical use in the immediate neighborhood is forthcoming against a nation armed to the teeth with canned sunshine.
Still hoping after all these years that Russians love their kids as we love ours.
33 posted on
09/10/2022 6:04:54 PM PDT by
PerConPat
(A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
To: whyilovetexas111
Russia can probably deliver two million tons of conventional high explosives on Ukrainian targets yearly.
That’s 100 times the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb.
Come winter any Ukrainian movement will show up in the snow, making targeting much more accurate.
To: whyilovetexas111
To: whyilovetexas111
and yet, that silly DOOMSDAY CLOCK won’t move one second...
47 posted on
09/10/2022 6:54:03 PM PDT by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: whyilovetexas111
Why would Russia go nuclear when the can us VX or Anthrax for area denial attacks? Russia kept all three types of it’s WMD’s.
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