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Russia could start a major war in Europe within 5 years, Danish intelligence warns (www.politico.eu)

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Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service warns that Russia could launch a large-scale war in Europe within five years if NATO appears weak or divided, especially if the U.S. does not intervene.

The report outlines a timeline where Russia could attack a neighboring country within six months, escalate to a regional Baltic conflict in two years, and potentially engage NATO-wide by 2029.

The assessment comes as Trump pressures NATO members to increase defense spending and has suggested the U.S. might not defend allies who fail to meet financial commitments.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

France and the UK’s nuclear arsenal is minuscule compared to the US stockpile.

You only need a few.

And a lot of the nukes at NATO bases are on loan from the US, so if the US pulls out there will not be nearly as many bombs close to Russia.

Both UK and France have nuclear armed subs, those are all that matter.

Anyone insane enough to start a nuclear war may decide that absorbing a hundred or so nukes isn’t so bad when they have hundreds of Cold War era bunkers and thousands of their own nukes.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say even Putin doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in a bunker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I’m going to go out on a limb and say even Putin doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a bunker.

You say that, but that's literally the plan for all the tech bros and billionaires when climate change finally starts to slap. They have all the money and power to stop it from happening, but they'd rather just live out their last thirty years in a fucking hole.