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North Korea also got nukes. Should we allow it to invade South Korea if it wants to?

Also: Russia is not USSR. I find it highly questionable that a country that can’t even manufacture ordinary cars has the capability to refurbish nuclear warheads.

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North Korea: who is "we"? As far as I know, North Korea could nuke South Korea, but for what? They would not occupy South Korea, they could use South Korea as slaves (but I don't think China would let that happen). And as far as I know, South Korea is not a member of any nuclear umbrella treaty. Same goes for any asian country.

omg... did you see the massive vehicules carrying 20 nukes ballistic missiles russia can manufacture.

Putin's regime will very probably get "what" it wants (yeah... "what" is blurry at best)

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Putin’s regime can’t occupy Ukraine either. They only want to destroy superior Ukrainian nation. So once again, should we allow NK to do what Russia is doing, ie destroy South Korea, with impunity?

Also, not sure if you are following the war at all, but Russia is falling terribly. Of the three fronts opened they already lost two. They hadn’t had any meaningful advances for many months now, despite throwing in everything they had.

We aren’t talking about Putin’s regime achieving some wins, we are talking about Russia surviving in its current shape.

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Who is "we"? In "should we allow"... NK can nuke SK whenever they want since SK has no nuclear umbrella, same goes for any asian country. That said, I wonder how China would react.

I don't see putin's regime occupying the whole ukraine, but some territories with pro-putin's regime ukrainians... which would actually become part of russia. That seems perfectly realistic.

They did not throw everything they had: nukes. And the failing of putin's army is extremely dangerous. He could use nukes to account for the failing of its army.

That's why it is urgent to find a way out of this weird, really weird conflict.

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“We” is, at this point, humanity. Russia no longer has allies that matter, in particular China and Kazakhstan are against the invasion. Same would be the case with NK.

Nukes are not a magic wand. They don’t guarantee victory - in fact, it’s perfectly reasonable to oppose them using conventional means, given a colossal weapons imbalance between NATO and Russia. And that’s again assuming that “Nigeria with nukes” can refurbish them, which is doubtful, and that assumptions of MAD are still true, which is doubtful as well.

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Ok, then how this "humanity" will block putin's regime to use nukes? "magic" or "super heroes"?

And now nukes don't guarantee victory? ...

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> Ok, then how this "humanity" will block putin's regime to use nukes? "magic" or "super heroes"?

If Russia drops a single tactical nuke on Ukraine I suspect they would loss the war within a month.

Any use of nukes requires a response and America would likely just delete all Russians from Ukraine and destroy the Black Sea fleet with conventional weapons.

Don’t forget that Ukraine has gotten anywhere near the latest and greatest NATO gear nor numbers.

There’s a reason Russia just keeps posturing about nukes instead of doing it, they know they will be met with overwhelming force from a actually modernised army.

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You might want to do some reading about how nuclear warfare works.