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Start treating the threats like a drinking game: Every time they mention a "nuclear response" we send ATACAMS, upgraded JDAMS, a Patriot system, an F16 or an Abrams to Ukraine.

I was going to say something like "five of xxx" but NATO would be out of stuff to send within a month.

Regarding the U.S., military pundit Igor Korotchenko told the Russia 1 channel: "we will not wage war with you in Europe."

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-first-city-russia-strike-world-war-3-ukraine-1719157

The first to be hit will be London.

I think that Korotchenko and Gurulyov are gonna have to reconcile their strategies.

Has Russia ever waged war which did not aim to add to their contiguous landmass?

Because when you take in conjunction that they're telling Europe not to worry, when only a week ago they were kind of threatening Poland, it seems like they might be lying. Again.

This is total theater. A single CHAMP payload on a stealth cruise missile (which Poland and Finland already have) "is capable of up to 100 shots per sortie." That is up to 100 electronic launchers, RADAR/anti-aircraft/communications installations permanently disabled. It doesn't just reboot the hardware, it destroys the electronics contained therein. Fried. No casualties. Just throws them back to the era of gunpowder and stones. With a single missile.

"By 2023, Lockheed Martin could produce over 500 missiles total of JASSM and LRASM versions per year, with plans to increase production to 1,000 missiles annually."

Russia has no answer for this or similar capability. All they can do is beat their chest about nukes that probably don't work anymore anyway.

Every time I hear these threats I just think "great, they're running out of options so they're threatening nukes" because it's one of the only levers they can pull.