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Originally Posted by TheLegacy
I would tend to agree with you except my question would be that this particular sub has one job and one job only - not to launch regular missiles but a friggin huge one that could wipe out several coastlines for years. I mean look at the size of it? Seems odd that American lost it's location and now it's close to where it can do a great deal of damage.
I guess the difference would be you can threaten someone with a gun for their lunch money - so why bring a tank?
Also - his generals and those who follow out the orders may just say "no" since there seems to be a growing support to get rid of Putin over Ukraine. Added to the pipelines being blown up under water - which was blamed on Russia - this show of force may trigger a man who doesn't like to loose much less feel humiliated by Ukraine and his own people.
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It is a game. We all play it.
After all the US has Nuke Subs around the Baltic, the Arctic, the Mediterranean, Pacific etc... we surround them with'm. Not even to mention the French and Brit's.
If you intend to do it as a aggressor, not a defender, you are not going to announce it. You loose a element of surprise.
You expect a response from a threat ? If you get it, there will be a new one, and a new one....
I might expect them as they are being defeated, to strike the 5 reactors when the winds are favorable to them with conventional weapons.
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They might have already planted computer code to destroy this remotely by having control of the plants.
You can't let a verbal warning deter you or you will be faced with a never ending call for your lunch money.
Putler has been pulling this off with what they call a MOST MASSIVE ARMY COMPLEX ( fear me ). And the only way they have ever won a battle is with scorched earth programs of aggression. Not well thought out battlefield tactics. Just look back at Syria.
Not all that many arms have really flowed into UA and they seem to almost have defeated them on their own. Western help just did it faster, with less loss of life. Western support did keep the economy up.
I will tell you that those members in the EU understand these threats very well. Probably the only reason NATO still exists. The only place they could consider to use nukes is the UA, since a hit on any NATO member will get a reply from ALL OF THEM. - Assured Destruction and a quick end of the story -
If you know there is a limit to what you will put up with, then the time to act on it is at the beginning.
Otherwise why wait, Don't give it up a dime at a time on the asking, surrender now !