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But when a country has joined NATO, it can later declare it will host nuclear weapons loaned from other NATO countries.

Russia is powerless to stop this, since any attack on a NATO country would likely trigger a counterattack.

Hence, instead, Russia must prevent these countries joining if they want to ensure no nukes on their border.



The whole point about ICBM is that you can send them within minutes from anywhere on the planet.

There is nothing threatening about a country joining a defense alliance.


And a way to achieve this is to make friends with your neighbours and enter mutual beneficial treaties....

Or you can just beat them up any time they look at other options.


> Russia is powerless to stop this, since any attack on a NATO country would likely trigger a counterattack.

This is a game of “who blinks first”. I doubt normally US would use nukes to defend a tiny unimportant country like Latvia or Slovenia, if under attack. Russia knows this too.

Someone crazy like Trump just might, though.


Russia is already bordered by multiple NATO countries. You should not be parroting Kremlin talking points at this time.


> Russia is already bordered by multiple NATO countries

And they aren't happy about it. At the time, they weren't in a position to do much about it though.


The risk of NATO using nukes first is 0.

For that to happen they would have to first turn into a tyranical shithole like Russia where an impotent old man can do as he pleases.

They don't start with nukes. They first murder journalists, bomb their own appartments, poison opposition leaders.

They only country in the world which is remotely close to doing a first strike is Russia, and perhaps North Korea.




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