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Crap, a nuclear weapon costs millions, one dropped on Liverpool might just do a couple of hundred quids worth of damage. Liverpool is safe.
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Crap, a nuclear weapon costs millions, one dropped on Liverpool might just do a couple of hundred quids worth of damage. Liverpool is safe.
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The only reason that Turkey was admitted into NATO all those years ago was that it provided a strategic advanced area close to the borders of the USSR. This was very useful for the West for such things as reconnaissance, advanced air bases and, of course, as a 'buffer state'. It is my belief that such things are much less important to the West, now that other nations like Poland are providing similar 'services'.
Add to that the fact that Turkey's political and religious leanings are highly suspicious, I see no reason why NATO still accepts the country as a member. In fact, if Turkey were no longer a NATO member, I shouldn't be at all surprised if they became far less willing to shoot down Russian aircraft, even if they strayed over their border.
That is exactly the predicted scenario (or actually, the direct opposite of that) during the cold war, when the USSR had several times as many divisions as the combined NATO armies. The NATO nations in possession of nuclear weapons, the US and the UK (not France, as they were not part of NATO at the time for some reason), held tactical nuclear weapons in reserve in the (very likely) case that the USSR's armies advanced into western Europe. The conventional NATO forces were known to be no match for the USSR's conventional forces and, were it not for our tactical nuclear weapons, they could - and probably would - easily have overrun the West. Our nuclear weapons, in my opinion, were the only reason that they didn't, and were kept for exactly that situation of the West 'having their backs against the wall'!
In addition to that, the USSR were perfectly aware that if we used our tactical nuclear weapons, they would use theirs as well with the predictable consequence that both sides would escalate to the use of strategic nuclear weapons. That, again, effectively kept the peace.
Yes, and nuclear warheads targeted at 'certain other' British cities might do us all a favour!
Crap, a nuclear weapon costs millions, one dropped on Liverpool might just do a couple of hundred quids worth of damage. Liverpool is safe.
(Yes, I'm joking: my mother-in-law lives in Bradford... Then again...)
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Yes, and nuclear warheads targeted at 'certain other' British cities might do us all a favour!
Crap, a nuclear weapon costs millions, one dropped on Liverpool might just do a couple of hundred quids worth of damage. Liverpool is safe.
(Yes, I'm joking: my mother-in-law lives in Bradford... Then again...)
Ooooh that'll kick up a storm
Oh, I doubt it. I believe he's been banned!Ooooh that'll kick up a storm
One dropped on you might knock some sense in!
Crap, a nuclear weapon costs millions, one dropped on Liverpool might just do a couple of hundred quids worth of damage. Liverpool is safe.
Ya tw*t
What's that all about? Sounds intriguing.
I concur.
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