> Only if he wants St. Petersburg and Moscow to become flat glassy areas that glow in the dark. <
Out of curiosity I looked it up. Britain has four ballistic missile submarines. That’s three more than would be needed to destroy all of Russia’s major cities. Putin must know this. And more importantly, Russian generals must know this.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/meet-britains-deadly-nuclear-missile-submarines-97757
>>The document also vowed to maintain a fleet of four nuclear-armed submarines so Britain would always have one at sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard-class_submarine
Three of them sit at port as a sitting duck, another can be traced and sank.
“Britain has four ballistic missile submarines.”
And each is armed with 16 Trident missiles. That’s a lot of boom.