If America is not going to honor defense agreements against Russia, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction falls apart and you can't assume conventional warfare. Russia has 5600 nukes while England and France have 500 together
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5600 or 500 either is more than enough to wipe most urban and strategic military targets across Europe and Russia. You can’t be turned into a radioactive crisp more than once.
That's why we (the French) have never wanted to rely on US tech
And yes we have enough megatons to wipe out a lot of Russia
It's really all that's left of NATO's deterrence, right now. Oh irony! NATO holds by a thread and this thread is de Gaulle's refusal to be under US command 1/
Except if there's a military coup in the US (I'm afraid it's right now the world's best hope, I don't see the destruction of everything stopping any other way), France's is the only reliable nuclear deterrent remaining for NATO 3/
At that time, France left NATO's integrated command (but not the Alliance itself) and went for strategic autonomy. So we kept a purely independent nuclear deterrent. France rejoined NATO command in the meantime. And now the US is de facto leaving NATO 2/
worse, we kinda just pay to keep American ones 😳American personnel have to maintain And operate the so called ‘british’ nuclear arsenal. So we can’t use them at all without not only American permission but also full cooperation.
the French have their own nukes, we don’t, we never had
Unlike russia, ours work. 500 is more than enough to totally destroy russia, especially so considering nearly all of its population lives in just two cities.
In reality it would only take about 8 to destroy russia and most of its population.
how many nukes does it take to destroy a nation? who in the hell cares? 500 is enough to destroy the world. It doesn’t matter the amount, no one wins a nuclear war.
One thing going for us (I guess?) is our major urban centres are so close to the US any nuclear fallout is headed for them, though it’s a stretch to assume Trump realizes this.
The folks who control the American nukes have been absolutely adamant about not letting the Muskrats anywhere near their turf. I'm also pretty sure that if something were fired toward the N American continent, they wouldn't wait to see where it's going to land.
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Not that I want to see that happen.
And yes we have enough megatons to wipe out a lot of Russia
It's really all that's left of NATO's deterrence, right now. Oh irony! NATO holds by a thread and this thread is de Gaulle's refusal to be under US command 1/
the French have their own nukes, we don’t, we never had
In reality it would only take about 8 to destroy russia and most of its population.