RE: Russia and Ukraine
September 27, 2022 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2022 at 7:59 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(September 27, 2022 at 7:43 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: They're probably more interested now than when they gave them up. Yet another miscalculation.
Why bother putting nukes in Ukraine? They're mighty close to the front-lines, and we've got subs basking underwater for that job anyway. Arty on the front lines is generally a matter of Charlie Foxtrot getting involved, especially nuclear artillery.
I see Ukraine in a couple of years fielding older-model M-1A1s, F-16s, perhaps F-15s, and if they join NATO, F-35s. That in itself, backed up by Article Five, would give Moscow one big headache. Will they prefer headache, or decapitation?