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Nuclear salts the earth more than conventional because it takes forever to clean up the radiation. Makes it unattractive, in a war of conquest, as the conquested land is inhospitable.

Ukraine has been surprisingly successful in intercepting the hypersonic rockets, so any nuclear Russia launches at them, might very well end up landing in Russia or the occupied territories. Might end up nuking themselves.

MichaelJ 1y ago

The rocket interceptions are only successful because they're using US-supplied air defense systems.

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Silberengel 1y ago

And German ones, yes.

Silberengel 1y ago

Iris and Patriots for long-range and Skynex for short-range, I think. Haven't been able to keep up, with the news, but Rheinmetall stock has outperformed Nvidia.

Drone swarms, long-range missiles, hypersonic missiles. Ukraine is shooting most of it down. The bit that gets through is pretty terrifying, tho. Can't imagine how nerve-wracked the Ukrainians must be, after years and years of this. Terrible.

Patriots >> hypersonic missiles, apparently.

The West hasn't actually given Ukraine their very best stuff, so they must have amazing tech. We don't know what it is, tho.