I wrote about UKR and nukes here: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... About conventional deterrence against small (even small nuclear) states: nationalinterest.org/feature/the-... About our general lack of strategy: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Also, a book: www.amazon.com/No-Use-Natio... - ThreadSky

radiofreetom.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

I wrote about UKR and nukes here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/02/no-ukraine-should-not-have-kept-nuclear-weapons/676415/
About conventional deterrence against small (even small nuclear) states:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-case-conventional-deterrence-9381
About our general lack of strategy:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/us-nuclear-strategy-cold-war-russia/638441/

Also, a book:

https://www.amazon.com/No-Use-National-Security-Foundation/dp/0812245660

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edithd.bsky.social•7 hours ago

But the US should have abided by their agreement.

chrisppdorf.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Sachs and Gabbard have a narrative...how accurate is it?

socialgreedia.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Tom, I just stopped by for the comments.

speckonblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Same

norsemanil.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Looks like reading for the night. Thanks

rickkeller.bsky.social•7 hours ago

"Sir. Do better next time, Sir."

calemiller.bsky.social•8 hours ago

delserv.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Good reads, thanks for sharing. My immediate question is, why advocate deterrence instead of just advocating victory?

wxsnoozle.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I know lotsa’ stuff about lotsa’ stuff, but I bow to your knowledge on this subject.

Question: Given everything that’s happened in Russia since the breakup of the USSR, plus the recent discovery that they’ve got a pretty second-rate military…what is the readiness/capability of their arsenal?

tpa2chg.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I disagree! Every capable nation should and will rush to develop their own nuclear deterrent- Germany, Japan, Brazil. Obviously, other countries cannot rely on the US - or rather sit around and wait to be extorted by MAGA. Proliifation is more a problem for the US than smaller countries.

allan616x.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Just recently used this…

https://bsky.app/profile/allan616x.bsky.social/post/3ljdmourul22h

idgarabert.bsky.social•8 hours ago

When the USSR broke up, Russia was the biggest Mafia of the fragments. Ukraine was big too, but smaller than Russia. Who knows how many of those nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil would have been sold to who knows whom?

speckonblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Wasn't there a story about nuclear subs?

pambojr.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I feel like the point is that we promised to protect them in exchange for them giving up the nukes. I don’t think enough attention is paid to that.

speckonblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The text, actually the texts of several related documents, is public.
We did not "promise to protect".

buscy.bsky.social•24 minutes ago

Putinsl's real strength is his readiness to get hundred of thousands soldiers killed or wounded. Taking high casualties without a blink is part of his demonstration de force.

speckonblue.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I have to agree.
For starters, Kazakhstan would have sold their "Soviet nukes" back in 1995.

puppydelay.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well we should NOT have broken our 1994 deal!

pgmccartney.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I saw a report from a Russian, escaped from the motherland and there was a demarcation a couple of months ago. Russia wiped all the metadata so seeing Putin I. Fatigues cannot be verified as current.

coyote108.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Thought this of interest too:

“True peace is built on justice, accountability, and deterrence.”

https://youtu.be/CGlPAvIQJsE?...

alv134.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I’m gonna have to read both of these articles because I’m thinking, the exact opposite, I’m thinking, what are we saving by not?

bluefishercat.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And now it seems Poland and Germany are developing nukes,

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