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To: skinowski who wrote (761632)4/19/2022 4:41:32 PM
From: Bruce L1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 793754
 
WHY SHOULD A COMMON BORDER WITH A NUCLEAR ARMED NATO MATTER TO RUSSIA?

Prussia/Germany had a common border with Russia for more than a 100 years...with nary any war or even territorial dispute. The common border extended far up the Baltic coast to Koenigsberg, the home of Emmanuel Kant who often gave lectures to Russian officers who came from just across the border. (Renamed Kallinengrad by the Soviets and part of Russia today)

Two great empires and a long common border was no problem. Germany went to war with Russia because Austro-Hungary had a legitimate grievance with Serbia and Russia/France had agreed between themselves that nothing could justify Austrian military action against Serbia. Austro-Hungary was Germany's only reliable ally and Germany it would be alone if it did stand up for its ally. (Respectfully, I suggest you read Christopher Clark's "The Sleepwalkers" which David Goldman touts as the definitive account for the origins of WW I)

So what's the big deal about nuclear weapons along a common border? We have or can have nukes in the three Baltic countries. We can put nukes in submarines or ships just off the Russian border/coast. And they can put nukes 10 miles off our American coast...and we can do nothing! For that matter, they can put nukes in Cuba or Venezuela, and what could we do... even if we know of them?

Russian nukes in Cuba in 1962 was a whole different era; we were overwhelmingly dominant then and the Russians knew it.

We live in an era when China, Israel, Taiwan, Iran etc. Are just going to have to learn to live with the fact of nearby hostile nukes....just as India and Pakistan already have.
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