Ngl, Nukes off the table and no external support, Russia would steamroll the UK. Its not even funny how badly
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addie@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Question is, who is this a deterrent against? Only other nuclear powers.
Russia? We can just blow the shit out of them with conventional weapons, don’t need this.
China? We’d fucking lose, a hundred-fold. Only deterrent against China is a very strong Europe, so let’s get back to the table.
USA? These submarines carry their missiles, and they’ll just remote-disable the fucking things.
France? They’ve got more nukes than we do, and honestly I can’t see us ever being at war with them again.
Israel? Can’t see any global power actually taking them to task for their genocide.
Conclusion: useless. On the basis that they’re a stupidly expensive left-over from the cold war, might as well cancel it, invest half of the money into conventional boom, and pocket the rest.
Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 9 hours ago
wewbull@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Isn’t that 2020 thinking?
Ukraine has show how they are vulnerable.
crimson_iris@piefed.social 10 hours ago
And what’s stopping them from escalating with nuclear weapons, if not a strategic nuclear deterrent? Also, you may be severely overestimating the conventional forces of the UK.