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Can they, finally, so we can get this human meat grinder shit show stopped? The moment NATO can stretch it's legs this should be over in days/weeks, right?
Do you seriously believe that?
Sure do, you don't? Why isn't Russia advancing further if they are so powerful they could withstand a nato assault? With the amount of bodies spent per km2, they would need to throw another million bodies at the front line just to secure the provinces they are already claiming as theirs.
Seeing their stocks dwindle on satellite imagery makes me think they are at the brink of complete meltdown even without a direct NATO response.
What do you think it would look like if article 5 was triggered?
I will answer your questions because I’m always very interested in discussing these things in a controversial manner but first, can I play your last question back to you just to understand where you’re coming from?
How would this go down in your mind?
Finland, Sweden, and Estonia will take over St. Petersburg while Russia is busy trying to take a Baltic region that has the support of the rest of Europe? Not to mention I think Poland won't allow that shit to happen a THIRD time in about a century - they've been prepping for awhile now.
I mean, it would turn into a three pronged war where the first prong has already been struggling to even keep territory let alone gain it. Most of the pro soldiers are gone and it'll be conscripts dealing with professional armies with modern tech.
That won’t happen. I’m not a nuclear alarmist but the Russian military will 100% use tactical nukes before they allow a foreign military to capture one of their major cities.
I think this is a correct assessment. Beating Russia back from their invasions is one thing, going after one of their major cities however is a red line where I think they will actually deploy nukes.
And if Russia does so Germany and France might do the same.
Hence why they haven't picked any fights against NATO either.
Germany doesn’t have nuclear weapons.
Germany has american nukes stationed in germany. France has also declared that their nukes will cover nato, as well as british nukes.
Exactly, as I said. Germany has no nuclear weapons. British nukes are mounted on rockets leased from the US and can therefore not be relied on. France’s arsenal is tiny and it’s not clear to what’s left of the NATO alliance that they would risk Paris for a village in Latvia.
France's arsenal is enough to wipe out most of Russia's population, since most of Russia is villages and nature, with most of it concentrated in the western side
USA being a russian puppet, Germany doesn't have nuclear weapons.
I agree but russian nukes have been historically poorly maintained and in a terrible condition. They had Ukranians maintain them who stopped for some reason in 2014. Surely some will work but in the same way they don't have the navy they claimed they have, the army they claimed they have they sure as hell don't have the nukes they claim they have.