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Ukraine is not allowed to choose its own alliances? Strangely it’s never Ukraine complaining about this, it’s always Russia and Russian apologists.

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There is simply no future for European countries with a hostile Russia in the neighbourhood.

From the US perspective, the war and the nukes are far away but that's not the case in Europe...

Step 1. Make Russia hostile.

Taking defensive measures or creating new alliances for protection is not as hostile as invading a country. Especially after Crimea.

You're basically telling countries "If you try to prepare for war, we'll attack you. The best thing to do is be as unprepared as possible with as few allies"

  >You're basically telling countries "If you try to prepare for war, we'll attack you. The best thing to do is be as unprepared as possible with as few allies"

Glad to hear you support Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programmes.

So how do defensive nuclear weapons work?

You have a nuke, so people don't invade your territory for fear you might use it.

Cuba was not allowed to station Nuclear weapons right?

Who's stationing nuclear weapons anywhere? There is no need nor any will for that. It isn't 1962 anymore, modern missiles are intercontinental.

>>U.S.-owned nuclear weapons stored in five NATO member states across six bases: Kleine Brogel in Belgium, Büchel Air Base in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi Air Bases in Italy, Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, and Incirlik in Turkey.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NAT...

And i don't even talk about "shields" that fire the nuclear competition until today.

>modern missiles are intercontinental.

No those are the old missiles, easy detectable starts and "lot's" of time for countermeasures.

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