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30/04/24

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Originally posted by moorookamick: ↑

Why is Georgia and the Ukraine important to NATO?

IMO both countries are of vital importance to the USA
as bases for Nukes primed and aimed at Russian
Nuclear facilities because closeness to targets gives
the USA a first strike advantage. And in Great Powers'
Geopolitics, a closeness to targets (first strike advantage)
is everything.

There are variables of course apart from the land based
positioning of Nukes close to targets such as:
-speed of delivery (eg Russia's 7 China's Hypersonic delivery systems)
-Ocean bourn launch platforms (ships and Subs)
(Nuke Subs have both first & second strike abilities ..hence our AUKUS interest)
-Space based Nukes

From WW2 until the mid 50s the US had first strike advantage over USSR & China
but since then that advantage has been questionable...hence the protracted Cold War.

So in summary, from a Nuclear War perspective, the closeness of the Nukes to targets
is a distinct first strike advantage and to that end, it is in the interest of the USA
to have its Nukes positioned in the Ukraine and Georgia and that is possible by
having both the Ukraine and Georgia as NATO members ..

Si, IMO, there are many moving parts to this war from a Geopolitical perspective.

PS: To test this theory, just imagine Russia or China basing Nukes in say Mexico
or even Central America ?

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NATO don't need either country ........ it's the other way round .....those countries NEED NATO !

The huge strategic win for NATO was Finland and Sweden ........ a DIRECT result of putins misconceived war .
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