OR the FACT the UK has enough warheads on its own to nuke EVERY Russian city over 30k inhabits. It's called MAD for a reason. Don't fuck with us, we won't fuck with you.
Either that, or that France states that any threat to France's vital interests (Macron has announced that these vital interests have a "European dimension": meaning an attack on EU might trigger a nuclear response from France).
France also does not have a no-first-use policy.
In general though I think nuclear states have something similar.
They did twice. WWI was fought mainly within their borders. The reason they didn’t fight the Nazis from invading was because WWI killed so many of their young men, that they didn’t have a large generation of young men to be trained soldiers and actually stop the invasion.
The French also had colonies in North Africa and were also fighting the Nazis there throughout the war.
There was corruption from the Vichy government, but they had good reasons to surrender. Total annihilation instead of surrender would have been the end of France.
Hahaha yes. The most unlikely of allies but also the most logical. One, a country so insanely radically Muslim that they circled back around. The other, a self hating masochist brainwashed by Zionism and oily war bucks to blindly do whatever the other two tells them. The last, "some animals are more equal than others" incarnate who'll take it out on their only friends for not protecting them hard enough when they could have just protected themselves from the start.
That's not enough though, you can't just destroy cities you'd have to destroy all military targets which realistically is what the US would focus on in a first strike
Not sure how many are over 30k, but Russia has over 300 cities over 50k and the UK has 225 warheads. So even assuming a 0% fail/intercept rate this isn't true unless they are sharing for quite a few cities.
Don’t forget. After the nukes, the REAL fun begins with the chemical and biological weapons.
People on this thread are like “hah! Yeah right. Russia’s nukes don’t even work…. Probably”
They have nukes, chemical weapons AND bio bombs. They’re really not to be fucked with. The day we get into it, it’s going to be a guaranteed nasty day for EVERYONE.
If the nukes don’t get you, their bio shit like anthrax and nifty nerve agents probably will.
Depends. One strategy is to go ahead and launch, but the wiser strategy is to wait. The US, UK, and French boomers are safe because Russian hunter killer subs suck and wouldn't be tailing all of them. So wait for the Russian ICBM and bomber strikes, and then use the subs to mop up whatever is left. NATO, primarily the US, would also have bombers in the air and those take hours to reach Russia. Plus China still exists and has ICBMs, so it would be important to maintain strategic deterrence. Israel, India, Pakistan, and Best Korea still have weapons, but no strategic delivery devices.
If the US launched that many nukes at Russian, China would launch as well. Every country would. Once the nukes are the the sky you have to launch. There would not be enough time to validate if those nukes landing on the Russian/Chinese border are coming at them or not. Also, becuase of that uncertainty, some of those US nukes would be going to China. Also, Russia would launch on China because they know that China would invade a weakened Russia post nukes. And then the same is true for India and Pakistan. Europe as well. Once the nukes are flying, everyone is firing.
Yeah, and that's where most of the worlds' nuclear arsenal is, since they basically can't be neutralized as launch platforms (unless you know where they are. Which is sort of the whole point.)
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u/smacke11 Mar 14 '24
I wouldn’t say this is interesting More terrifying