[Zhang Fei]

[Yeah, pansies with nuclear missiles.

Russia has 1,458 warheads on 527 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched missiles and bombers.
The US has 1,389 warheads on 665 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched missiles and bombers.]

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So if Russia demands a million tons of gold per year or they’ll nuke us, do we agree? After all - they’ve got nukes. Surely our lives are worth a million tons of gold a year.

How about if they ask for Poland? Surely our lives are worth Poland. How about the EU? Surely our lives are worth the EU. How about if they said the US president and all American officials should be appointed by the Russian leader? Surely our lives are worth a few meaningless government posts.

You’ve completely missed the point of our nuclear force. It’s to deter the other side from using nukes. If he does, he not only incinerates himself and his entire country - he wipes out his place in history. And that’s the one thing national leaders crave the most, and the one thing Alexander and Julius Caesar pursued and achieved successfully to the exclusion of most other things. Can’t be a significant person in your country’s history if there’s no country left.

[WMarshal]

If someone comes from me and mine then my gun comes out. However if my nutty neighbors who are armed the teeth have a domestic dispute then I’ll keep watching TV.

[boxlunch]

I wastrying to formulate that exact thought but you did it well.

Where is our red line? If he he gets away with threatening nukes, then he will not stop ever, until it’s too late!