(September 29, 2022 at 1:19 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 28, 2022 at 8:14 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Why would Russia ever have to worry about that??
Setting aside the loaded nature of your question, using the charged word "worry" --
No competent military leaders would risk vital nuclear assets by putting them right on the border where a HIMARS strike (18 more units were delivered today, more than doubling Ukraine's strength there) could take them out very quickly.
Nuclear assets are stationed well behind the lines for several reasons: their innate value as weapons, their specialized maintenance requirements, the cost/benefit of a multimillion-dollar tactical nuke being taken out by a $12,000 artillery shell, that sort of thing.
No competent military would do that ... "competent" being the key word.
I stand corrected. Well, then situate them 500 km or wherever they need to be and blow the Ukrainians to bits if they should ever enter Russian soil. Ergo, I agree that Russia should have no issues with Ukraine joining NATO (that's their excuse, not mine); simply abandon START I & II. I suspect that such would be cheaper than their current "military operation"; feel free to correct me if I am wrong on this one.
