Germany says 'blackmail' of Ukraine will bring more war
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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.
-us
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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.
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How does pakistan and nkorea do it then?
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Idk why, but this made me think of a philosophical quandary. If you sell your soul to the devil to save someone else or your country, do you still go to hell?
