In what world does incompetence make someone possessing nuclear weapons less dangerous? Europe is pretty densely populated - an accidental launch in western europe's general direction would do terrible damage and potentially start a chain reaction of reprisals that would be catastrophic.

Also, Russia's rockets still seem to be working pretty well as evidenced by the fact that they were used to send American astronauts to space for the last 10 years[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family)#ISS_crew...