Germany says 'blackmail' of Ukraine will bring more war
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China has been working toward that superpower status for some time. They're a lot more ambitious than the leaders in the EU and much more brazen.
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Y'all willing to give us a couple hand me down super carriers?
The rest of the world will pick up the torch, it's just going to be a long time before we can replace the US due to how large and how stable it's been in the past. No one really expects an ally to flip the table, of a game they're winning at, for the lulz.
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No one's ever going to do that again. Trump has guaranteed a new era of nuclear proliferation.
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art of the deal
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But they have the capability right? Truly if they wanted to have a nuke I'm positive they could build one.
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While the nuclear weapons where physically present on Ukraine soil, the country did not have operational control over them.
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This should be a wake up call to invest in your own carriers and military. Stop letting the US have the monopoly on firepower.
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I would say they’ve had superpower status since the 1950s, since the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
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That's why they have to test the new ones.
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The stuff you need to make this sort of thing isn't off the shelf, they would have to buy or build a shitload of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_centrifuge
and its not cheap, these are just maintenance cost (and upgrades)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/752531/nuclear-weapons-spending-worldwide-by-country/
Ukraine's gdp is around 170 billion, so it isn't really something they could afford to just crank up.
On a personal note, I hope we as a species never fire another one of these weapons ever again.
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Nukes are cool and all but wouldn't a super power at least need some over seas power projection like aircraft carriers?
I'd say China has been, and still is a regional power albeit rising -
Step 1: capitulate
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Seconded. The US can no longer be trusted. God speed, and I wish you the best.
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It owns too much of Africa to be a regional power. It's a superpower even if by a web of alliances/dependants rather than its own military projection
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Germany has relied on the USA since the BRD was founded. The left party (Die Linke) was and still is the only party in parliament that's against it.
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Good. Call it what it is.
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Trump did extort zelensky the first time, which resulted in his performative impeachment
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Yup, all the launch codes and mechanisms were in Kremlin
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Too bad they are extremely authoritarian.
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Not all require launch codes. Especially not those delivered by plane.
The rest they could dismantle and repurpose.
