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I think they weren’t ever going to use them because they know they would get nuked in turn. Once it became clear the bluff wasn’t working, makes you look weak to use a threat and not follow through.

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Plus many of them are so poorly maintained they likely wouldn’t launch anyway. Missiles have a lot of upkeep

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Comrade what do with many ICBM no longer function?

I have a best solution we take derelict submarine insert many warhead call it Poseidon. Is glorious Soviet superweapon Dah.

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While this may well be true, Russia has so many nukes and nukes are themselves so destructive that it’s kinda cold comfort even if 90% of them fail

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Yep. Mutually Assured Destruction.

Some countries will use the threat of nuclear war to get what they want. But what they want often involves still being alive afterwards. Putin, like the rest of the leaders of countries with nuclear arms, knows that a nuclear strike demands a nuclear response. There is no other option and unfortunately the whole world suffers as a result.

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Although I don’t think pootin cares about his people and wont care if they get killed.

He may care about himself but he is a old man now with nothing left.

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He should at the very least care about the oligarchs in the country who are reliant on the Russian people to build and maintain their wealth. There’s no wealth without people.

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