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Polish Foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorksi said a victory against Vladimir Putin’s forces would be swift due to the “overwhelming superiority” of its air forces, even without support from the United States.
“If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia quite quickly. We have overwhelming superiority over Russia in air power. General, correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s something like 2,500 aircraft,” he said during a discussion at the Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv on Saturday.
“Even without the US it’s still overwhelming, and I haven’t checked recently how many F-35s and JASSMs and all the deep-strike capabilities we have.”
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He went further to say that Poland could knock out half of Russia’s refining capacity in a matter of weeks. The comments were in relation to a potential conflict between Russia and Nato and not about the prospect of a direct war between Russia and Poland.
“But if the Ukrainians have knocked out half of Russia’s refining capacity in six months, we could do it in six weeks and take out the other half,” he continued.
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Sikorski of “Russophobia of the brain” in discussing the conflict.
Speculation has abounded that Moscow is plotting to attack Nato, claims that the country has denied.
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Last month CIA director John Ratcliffe made a short trip to Moscow - the last time that a CIA chief visited the country personally was in the weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Several sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News that Ratcliffe had made the visit to warn Russia against an attack on Nato.
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Yes, agreed. There isn’t even any bluster in that statement. And I think NATO agrees that this option isn’t off the table.
But a cornered animal will do weird pointless self-destructive things, and it’s possible it still has one or two functioning nukes…
No, it’s a dumb statement. Russia has more than enough nukes to destroy the world. Such war has only one outcome.
30% of their population lives in two cities. St Petersburg and Moscow.
It takes the far less to decapitate their country than some people understand. Country, not state, not heads of state.
It changes the math significantly. They know it. That is why the huffing and puffing and end of the world psalms in the media.
Due to the decades of corruption where every levelwere skimming off money in the Russia army, it is legit doubtful that many, if any, nukes are still functional
Remember that these devices, if ever used, will end the world and it doesn’t matter. If someone is going to use them, they effectively will kill you. Does it really matter any lre that the nukes then don’t work? What are they going to do? Kill you for that? You’d already be dead if they worked anyway.
Nukes are extremely expensive in maintenance all year around, and its fairly easy and safe to just skip money off them.
My bet is that most of their arsenal won’t be able to go critical for an explosion any more
Even within the Russian armed forces, units responsible for maintaining and deploying nuclear weapons are considered a useless joke, which is saying something. The level of incompetence there is staggering.
However, even if just one Russian nuke successfully destroyed a major Western population center, it would still be a gigantic humanitarian disaster, unlike anything we’ve witnessed since WW2.
I don’t understand why are you being downvoted, it is a known fact russian have thousands of nukes.
Because some of us have experience in engineering and maintenance work. And some of us can look at the state of Russia’s naval fleet and summarize that Russia hasn’t had any money for basic maintenance and repairs for over 3 decades. Traditionally, a naval fleet is the Force projector of a military country. Because you can sail your ships right off the coast of your adversaries and show off. So one would conclude that if they can’t even maintain the show Force then they probably can’t maintain the hundreds of missiles that are capable of launching nuclear payloads let alone constantly refining new material and replacing the worn out fissile material.
Paper tiger
based on your analysis, North Korea, which doesn’t have a functioning country, are on a brink of famine and at least 50 years behind their next neighbors technology wise ( thats what we are being told) but somehow they are able, if needed, to drop a nuclear bomb? Seriously, you really believe that the russians wouldn’t keep functioning nukes as a last line of defense? A bit naive I would say, but we will see it live if we live long enough. another point is this one https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals
Oh I’m sure they have 5 to 15 that can actually fire. But they never would fire them. France alone would clobber the shit out of them with their retaliatory strike.
you are sure? thats enough for me, i can relax now.
That’s why they call it an umbrella
what mate?
Lemmy is sometimes weird, specially when it comes to Russia 🤷
It takes a hand to press the nuke button.
Remove that hand.
Nope, they have distributed capabilities. There is no way one would destroy them all before they launch at least some of them.
Tanky confirmed. Has no idea what starship troopers are.
You have definite information about what Russia has and is up to! Please tell us where we can find it.
https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals is this good enough for you?
Are you serious? Feel free to read.
Yes, take the word of a blohard country that constantly lies at face value. Russia has issued 135 nuclear threats against Ukraine since the beginning of its special military operation. However, not a single tactical nuke has been deployed yet.
So imagine you’re out walking in the street when some hobo bum rushes you tackles you to the ground and starts beating you while screaming about the gun in their pocket and how they’re going to shoot you with it if you don’t stop fighting back because that’s what’s happened for the last 3 years.
I know about that doctrine. It tells me nothing factual. It’s the same threat & posturing they’ve been doing ever since '22 and possibly since Soviet times.
That wikipedia article is very long; could you point out to me the bits where numbers provided by the Kreml have been independently verified?
Particularly whether any of these warheads are known to be working.
It only takes a few working for it to be a threat. We know of the USSRs tests and we know they have missile technology. What more do you need, to be hit by one?
oh no lets not fight back then /s
Thanks for putting words in my mouth.