On Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that NATO nuclear facilities, if permanently located on the Polish territory, will become a military target for Russia.
Well… uh, of course they would? Duh.
Literally wtf is the point of this? Don’t the Americans, French, British and Israelis have enough nuclear capabilities to already threaten Russia? What is the point of moving missiles into Poland?
I was kind of curious about this, so I did some digging. According to this reuters article, Russia did this last year by moving missiles in Belarus. Supposedly, this possibility is being considered in response of that.
Reducing flight time, methinks. Same as officially absorbing Finland and Sweden into nato, despite their “neutrality” being a sham to begin with. Shorter distance - shorter flight - less time to detect and intercept. Now there’s of course a question whether interception is feasible in an all out nuclear war at all. I don’t have an answer to that.
this is the whole point. this is why the war in Ukraine is happening. the whole reason for eastward expansion of NATO is to get nuclear weapons closer to Russia
Escalation
