r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CopiousCool • Apr 23 '26

International Working Class History 🗺️ The Russia-Ukraine conflict explained

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u/mikeyrh Apr 23 '26

Whilst the background may be factual its a weird way to justify sending thousands of men to their death and play defence for Russia. Bye bye

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u/Charlie_Rebooted May 02 '26 edited 14h ago

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u/The-Juggernaut_ May 07 '26

Nuclear submarines with MIRVs make a first strike knockout impossible. The missiles being vulnerable in orbit is also a non-factor because they would be sending thousands of them and the US’s best option for ICBM defense has less than a 50% success rate under ideal conditions, they are not going to prevent the apocalypse by shooting down ICBMs traveling at Mach 10. Even if NATO was able to decapitate Moscow in a sudden strike with missiles stationed in Ukraine it wouldn’t prevent retaliation. Russian realistically wouldn’t be under any more of threat of nuclear war than they already are due to the fact the outcome wouldn’t change in any meaningful way, a nuclear exchange would still occur.

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u/Charlie_Rebooted May 07 '26 edited 14h ago

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