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The US has allegedly said they will retaliate with nuclear strikes on Russia if Russia uses nuclear strikes on Ukraine.

Barring an attack on the US itself, the US under the current regime will never attack Russia. Whatever the kompromat happens to be, the President is completely bound by it.

The "kompromat" is the world's largest nuclear arsenal, some five thousand and change warheads, along with a delivery system that includes an HGV MIRV payload that can deliver a multi-megaton warhead at ~mach 20-something.

As if all their rusty crap still works.

Their video recordings of Trump doing God-only-knows-what, on the other hand, appear to be working great. Ditto, the unreleased files hacked from the Republican National Committee's email server in 2016.

> As if all their rusty crap still works.

It doesn't all have to work.

Like a beheaded snake, you can still get bit.

Why would Russia use nukes on Ukraine? It will make it even worse pariah than NK.

> pariah

Which recent foreign policy actions by Russia indicate that they care overmuch about soft power, or consider its loss to be a significant risk?

Honestly, I thought part of MAD was how, once a nuclear missile was launched, it would be better for other nuclear states to decimate the country of origin than to wait and figure out where it would hit.

Subs make that more difficult.

That'll never happen.

Doubt.

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