Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Watch: NATO kicks off largest exercise since Cold War in Norway" video.

  1. D GE, a war involving NATO would play out as follows: Russia, true to its habits, invades one of its NATO-member neighbours, Article 5 kicks in and Russia's forces are forcibly removed after offering only token resistance, because the outcome is not in doubt. All nuclear powers keep their arsenals in reserve, just in case, but no one dares to give cause for a nuclear escalation. Russia, with its economy already in dire straits, won't bankrupt itself trying to match a US nuclear build-up in a renactment of the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia will make a hullabaloo about modernising and bolstering its nuclear arsenal, but instead slightly ups its investment in conventional weapons, because they matter. Nukes make sense for a superpower, but not for a hasbeen or wannabe like Russia. China, a true superpower in the making, on the other hand matters. The Americans make no secret of China's omission in the current INF treaty. How's the weather in St. Petersburg, by the way?
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  2. Now why would Russia invite total destruction upon itself?
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