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Maybe we should train the Poles for the same thing. That would be another 'win' for Putin
I bet the arrival of several B-2 bombers into key locations in the region would also send a message.I think it better to simply put a couple of boomers east of Norway with orders to be occasionally detectable. They could cover anything from Minsk to Moscow and beyond, and the message would be clear.
Does anyone seriously think for a moment, that Putin would let Belarus have the launch codes or even access to live nuclear weapons. Not a chanceRussia trains Belarusian pilots in nuclear weapons use
The deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO members in Europe.www.defensenews.com
I bet the arrival of several B-2 bombers into key locations in the region would also send a message.
Does anyone seriously think for a moment, that Putin would let Belarus have the launch codes or even access to live nuclear weapons. Not a chance
A tac nuke launch from Belarus into Ukraine would initiate some complex diplomatic and strategic issues...Agreed, this move is not to make them a launch platform, but to make them hostages.
A tac nuke launch from Belarus into Ukraine would initiate some complex diplomatic and strategic issues...
Ukraine isn't NATO. Belarus isn't Warsaw Pact / USSR. It is, even if only nominally, an independent state.
Putin is keeping his nuclear option on his doorstep, but outside the homestead. Belarus is clearly expendable. Its a highly destabilising move, so he's playing his brinksman / unpredictability card again.
What If question: Ukraine was the home of the USSR military industrial manufacturing industry until its breakup. It also has multiple nuclear power stations and 15 reactors. It is currently in a war of existential survival against what is in reality a dictatorship in which opponents serve long prison sentences, get cancer, fall out of windows, eat pollonium sandwiches or get poisoned by Russian chemical weponry completely cooincidentally in the same week proven agents take a sabbatical to visit the Cathedral in their city.
Could they have cobbled together enough 235 to make a couple of simple 'gun type' nuclear weapons as a last resort, even if they are to be merely announced as 'a fleet in being'?
Israel, South Africa, Pakistan and India and North Korea all managed it....
Into the complex world of diplomacy and domestic politics: both Hungary and Poland (see EU says unilateral trade action unacceptable after Poland, Hungary ban Ukraine grain, food imports and Hungary Joins Poland in Banning Grain Imports From Ukraine) have banned food imports from Ukraine, with Poland also banning transit of Ukrainian foodstuffs.
I remember many decades ago a news story of a T-55 on a trailer being abandoned in a Chicago neighborhood. After a few weeks, the citizen complaints brought an inspection which found the T-55 was intact with ammunition on board. It seems the freight company went bankrupt and the driver parked his load, took his truck and left. Those of you with your majic device may be able to find if I remember correctly.The T-90 is just one piece of Russian equipment brought to the US recently.
Abandoned in Chicago? I'm surprised the bogey wheels weren't stolen.I remember many decades ago a news story of a T-55 on a trailer being abandoned in a Chicago neighborhood. After a few weeks, the citizen complaints brought an inspection which found the T-55 was intact with ammunition on board. It seems the freight company went bankrupt and the driver parked his load, took his truck and left. Those of you with your majic device may be able to find if I remember correctly.