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And do you think if they had they’d have nuked Russia by now? And then what?

The whole point of nuclear weapons is that people don't attack you because you will use them.

So if they had them Russia would not have attacked.

I think russia would have attacked crimea as they did but the extended war would have stopped. Ukraine could for example use smaller nuclear weapons to attack military infrastructure like the crimean bridge, railway infrastructure etc.

I'm not advocating large scale nuclear war but a doctrine like france has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion

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