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Stargazer09

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2. The Cold War has ended
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 12:04 AM
Jan 2014

And because of that, nobody cares about deterrence, despite the fact that we are vulnerable as fuck right now. Russia and China are not letting their weapons rust in the ground.

Every one of those officers knows that being in the nuke field means getting passed over for promotion and kicked out before retirement. Add the isolated, and boring, bases at which to live, and it becomes obvious why morale is very low. There's no incentive to do well on inspections, either, so why should they bother?

Putin is laughing his ass off tonight.

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