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Old 11-10-2024, 09:29 PM   #14460
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What good are nukes for Ukraine? Surely their red lines would be no more credible than Russia's. It's not like they could use them without Russia using theirs, and they're not going to win a nuclear war against Russia.

The only use cases I can see are: to bluff, and to secure a conventional victory by dissuading Russia from nuclear escalation. But I don't think there's a strategy where they can actually use them, which as Russia is finding out kind of makes them less useful than one might hope.
The idea would be to bury them as close to the frontline as possible as a sort of super mine field I would guess
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