[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