Just over that horizon is Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. I am one wrong move away from the first shootout between two flat-tops since World War II. One flinch from touching off World War III. And you're asking me to fly you directly into the eye of the storm?

>>212778597 (OP)
come on vlad kick ww3 off already, theres no salvaging your situation, go out with a bang

>>212780039
if the missiles haven't corroded to all hell already because most of their ICBM stock haven't had their liners replaced since the 90's and use hypergolic propellant
i hope they haven't, but given the budget they have for nukes it's unlikely they have more than a 100 or 200 functional ICBM's, the warheads themselves are probably not much better as warhead maintainance is really intensive.

If Russia used a tactical nuke against a non-NATO country, would NATO use nuclear weapons against Russia?

>>212778597 (OP)
Removing ol` smoky would benefit russia at this point.

>>212780760
not just NATO, north korea, china, india, pakistan and israel would probably chip in with a few warheads as well.
normalizing the use of tactical nuclear weapons would be unacceptable for every nuclear power on the world, they want their nuclear power to be a get out of jail free card in case they're defenseless against attack by any other means, and nuclear umbrellas give nuclear countries large amounts of soft power, ukraine is under the nuclear umbrella of both the west and china, and breaking that precedent would mean worldwide nuclear proliferation, as it would be proven that's the only way to garuantee sovereignty and relying on nuclear umbrella's doesn't work. which means nuclear countries lose their big advantage of being the few countries that have nukes.
any russian that tells you they could totally nuke ukraine is basically a retard who doesn't understand how nuclear strategy/game theory works.

>>212778597 (OP)
Why is reddit trying to gaslight me that this woman is sexy

>>212781030
redditors have gaslit themselves into thinking that older women can still be sexy because older women are desperate and easy to get, and young women are all raised sociopaths with no real ability to love nowadays.

>>212780760
we'll have already informed them exactly what will happen in a range of different scanarios. apparently one of the options is to take out their entire navy conventionally.

>>212780760
If Russia invaded Turkey from the rear would Greece help?