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GhostHunter22

(95 posts)
13. This is what worries me about this conflict as well.
Wed Jul 19, 2023, 11:03 AM
Jul 2023

Putin can and will do what Putin wants to do with very little in the way of resistance - if he uses a 'tactical' nuke as you laid out in Kyiv - what will Nato do? We can't just stay out of it and allow that kind of destruction to become the norm - we would be faced with a horrible choice, to actively get involved or not. Neither has anything close to a good outcome.

Not to mention that if he does it, then the Ukrainians will most certainly get their hands on some warheads and do the same in Moscow - such dangerous stuff.

And, of course if Putin does use those weapons he'll wait until August or September of 2024 to do so just so that it fucks with our election process as Biden will be forced to make a choice and no matter the what he does he will be vilified by the Right (and some on the Left), thereby giving the MSM more ammo to try to take him down some.

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It just takes one of their thousands to work. TheBlackAdder Jul 2023 #1
Yes. Sure no one wants to really ever ever find out if even one of thousands...works to mass murder. Alexander Of Assyria Jul 2023 #9
While a number of their ICBM's may be down, and I don't know if that's true or not, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #2
I don't think the hair-trigger world-ending all-out exchange of nukes... Silent3 Jul 2023 #6
Maybe, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #8
You forgot carp. niyad Jul 2023 #21
Oh yeah, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #24
The article acknowledges the concern that I had, which is that the tactical nukes... Silent3 Jul 2023 #3
This is what worries me about this conflict as well. GhostHunter22 Jul 2023 #13
The big Hydrogen ones would likely fail IbogaProject Jul 2023 #4
Almost all modern nukes need tritium sir pball Jul 2023 #15
To split hairs, radioactive tritium is "heavy heavy hydrogen" ... eppur_se_muova Jul 2023 #19
I was pointing people to the main issue IbogaProject Jul 2023 #22
I would reverse this question sarisataka Jul 2023 #5
Patriot and THAAD are mainly aimed at short and intermediate range ballistics missiles aren't they? GregariousGroundhog Jul 2023 #10
Yes, that is what they are designed for sarisataka Jul 2023 #11
We do not have the right orthoclad Jul 2023 #7
Read that the last time Russian nuke sites were checked they were rusty. Article is from 1997. sarcasmo Jul 2023 #12
Every word of this article strikes me as the absolute truth. Aristus Jul 2023 #14
Exactly, and the article was from 97, so imagine the wear over 26 years. sarcasmo Jul 2023 #18
They still use Windows 95. lpbk2713 Jul 2023 #16
That would be modern sarisataka Jul 2023 #17
That article fails to take one important thing into consideration ... priority. Angleae Jul 2023 #20
If even one functions properly, that's a disaster. roxybear Jul 2023 #23
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