Silver Cat
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A cyber attack can make life uncomfortable, but nukes can actually kill people and destroy military and civilian targets."Mutually assured destruction" is a myth, you know. Good combination of EW, sudden counterforce attack, ABD and erzatz-ABD, evacuation of cities, civil defense and post-attack blackmail can decrease losses to pretty acceptable. They are going to lose two, may be three million of citizens, but they will get twenty or thirty millions of new citizens in Ukraine. What is even more important, they definitely won't stop in Ukraine. Possible loses are great, but the potential prize is literally enormous... May be, even the world domination.Russia faces mutually assured destruction, just like they always have. Is Putin willing to take the risk just to annex Ukraine?According the Russian Military doctrine, "Regional wars" are nuclear wars. They have thousands of tactical nukes to fight Europeans and enough of strategical nukes for "in-war detterence" of the USA. Do you believe, that Biden is going to start all-out war (and to kill tens of millions of American citizens) to protect Ukraine, or even the whole Europe? He don't care about Europe, China is his only passion.Are you kidding? NATO readiness is at an all time low. Germany only has 244 tanks, many of which are inoperable with no spares to fix them, it has 212 fighters, bombers and attack aircraft, again poorly maintained. It has a total of 215,000 military personnel counting every swinging Richard, cooks, clerks doctors, everyone. France has 406 tanks, 269 fighters, bombers and attack aircraft and 300,000 military personnel. The UK has 209 tanks, 134 fighters, bombers and attack aircraft and 280,000 military personnel. Those the Heavy hitters of NATO. NATO has drawn down from being the well equipped and well trained force of the Cold War. The NATO countries can’t defend themselves, let alone the Ukraine. Russia has serious problems, but it’s far stronger than the European NATO members and is right on the Ukraine’s border. NATO has to move troops and vehicles hundreds of miles to get to the Ukraine.Only because of the involvement of the United States. If the US is not in play NATO is nothing
It seems to me that this would be a good time for an American President (a real President) to approach our NATO "allies" and tell them that THEY have a problem here, and we are willing to HELP.
Remember that 2%of GDP that they promised to spend on mutual defense? There is no time like the present.
Of course that would require a President with balls.
NATO is the most powerful military force in history.
Russia is nowhere close
France, UK, Germany, Italy have modern militaries with well trained soldiers and pilots.
They have been preparing for decades
And Russia?
No, Russia is not stronger than the European NATO members.
Their military is a shell
Really? If Americans are ready to die to protect Europeans, why don't they sell them COVID-vaccines? "F#$k the EU" as Victoria Nuland said.Since joining NATO, the US has always committed to join in the defense of Europe. That has not changed
We don’t even have to do that. A cyber attack will have the same result. Bring down the power grid, the internet, water systems.....
Then deny you know anything about it.
What can happen there if we are not ready to face it because we did cancel its study, you mean?Then there are biological attacks. We saw what can happen there
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research - Nature
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.
www.nature.com