[sdfghswe]

Russia doesn't have nuclear weapons though, common misconception.

Do you know how expensive their maintenance is? Do you know how corrupt Russia is?

[enterprise_cog]

So they don’t have nukes now because of fanciful thinking. Gotcha.

[multjoy]

They can't maintain tyres on trucks in storage. The idea that they have any serviceable nukes is not as current as it used to be.

[enterprise_cog]

Second statement does not follow from the first. For all we know those tires are poorly maintained because they spend their limited resources on maintaining their nuclear arsenal.

Either way, you can’t call their bluff without risking nuclear annihilation. All it takes is a few dozen MIRV tipped IC/SL ballistic missiles to bypass anti missile systems and destroy a good chunk of the US population.

[verdverm]

They've doubled their military budget and are doing a nuclear modernization iirc

[lp0_on_fire]

This is a ridiculous and easily debunked assertion.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/R45861.pdf

[sdfghswe]

Sorry, which part of that 47 pages document debunkes my assertion? I thought you were gonna link me to a video of a Russia nuclear weapon detonating... oh wait that hasn't happened in 70 years...

[lp0_on_fire]

Literally the entire document debunks your assertion that the Russians have no nuclear weapons.

[sdfghswe]

No it doesn't. The entire document assumes that their nuclear weapons can actually detonated. Let me know if I've missed otherwise. I searched the document and couldn't find any discussion on this point.

[verdverm]

> The entire document assumes that their nuclear weapons can actually detonated.

Are you actually assuming that they will not work? That's quite the leap of faith with no substance to back it up

[red-iron-pine]

By that logic India, Pakistan, and China don't either.

[sdfghswe]

Russia is another level compared to India and Pakistan in terms of corruption.

China, maybe. The difference is that Chinese nukes are relatively new. How old are Russia's nukes? 40 years old? 60? You do know that nukes are extremely finicky. Getting a nuke to detonate is a highly precise thing.