RE: Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?
March 22, 2015 at 11:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 1:33 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 22, 2015 at 5:13 pm)abaris Wrote:(March 22, 2015 at 4:27 pm)Chuck Wrote: As a result, no NATO ally will be drawn into any potential nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia.
Poland, Estland, Lituania, Latvia. They're all eager to have it out with Russia and they're all NATO members. Right now there are NATO manoevers in the baltic. What do you think they are about? Who could the enemy possibly be, given the geographic location?
Rest assured, if someone - either in Russia or the USA - is stupid enough to go for it, it won't be a localised matter.
The core of NATO in Europe and the parts of Europe that matter to the overall scheme of world economy is germany, and to lesser extent france, UK and Italy. The Pipsqueaks of former eastern block were not admitted into the NATO for the sake of those pipsqueaks, but for the sake of the geopolitical interests mainly of the U.S. Other NATO members would put on a show of NATO solidarity, but certainly would not sacrafice themselves for the geopolitical interests of the U.S., or to sooth the thrill and excitable pipsqueaks ofmthe former eastern block.
If these newly minted NATO pipsqueaks were to act rashly enough to be drawn into a the conflict spawning a nuclear exchange between US and Russia, there is good chance they would be destroyed as part of the nuclear exchange. but I don't believe a single classic NATO state would be moved to immolate itself on behalf of either these NATO "allies", or the US for that matter.
Thus western and Central Europe would weather a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia.
