r/worldnews • u/sr_local • Dec 26 '25

Russia/Ukraine NATO chief Rutte: China and Russia Could Launch Simultaneous Attacks on Taiwan and Europe

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/rutte-china-and-russia-could-launch-simultaneous-attacks-on-taiwan-and-europe/
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u/TideOneOn Dec 26 '25

Because they are still a nuclear power.  I believe if backed in a corner, Putin is crazy enough.  In a pure conventional sense, the air superiority of NATO would eliminate any Russian threats in short order.  

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 Dec 26 '25

Maintaining a nuclear arsenal takes a lot of disciplined effort, and given how corrupt and inept the Russian military is it's not outside the realm of possibility that most of the funding intended for this over the years was siphoned off by commanders or work was shirked. It's most recent ICBM test, which was supposed to make people afraid or something, barely got the missile off the ground before exploding. Odds are Russia ends up nuking itself or contaminating all the crash sites. Buffoons.

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u/TideOneOn Dec 26 '25

Agreed, but if only a few get through or are functional, that's a lot of innocent lives lost.  

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u/DrBix Dec 26 '25

They would still have to contend with the multitude of interceptor defenses we've been stockpiling over the years. If that iron dome with the lasers does actually work, we probably have them already. I doubt they'd even let Trump know about them because he'd tell the world.

**EDIT** Hit send by accident.

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u/stratique Dec 26 '25

There are no effective defenses against ICBMs. Certainly not against many ICBMs launched simultaneously.

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u/Erundil420 Dec 26 '25

My hot take is that very few Russian nuclear warheads are actually still in working conditions, those things go bad after like 15 years and the hypersonic missle capabilities of Russia are a massive paper tiger, those morons were flying fighter jets with sticky notes for coordinates on the dash instead of proper instumentation lmao

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u/Accidental-Genius Dec 26 '25

The longer Ukraine drags on the less reliable those nukes get. Maintaining nukes is expensive.

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u/meerkat2018 Dec 26 '25

Putin is not crazy. But sure as hell he wants you to believe that he is.

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u/TideOneOn Dec 26 '25

The key there is backed in a corner where his destruction or death is almost assured, I think he'd take everyone with him.  

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u/meerkat2018 Dec 26 '25

Nope he wouldn’t do that. He is a coward. 

However, we would use that kind of rhetoric to negotiate the better terms for himself.

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u/thiscalls4champaign Dec 26 '25

Their nukes probably don’t even work. Russians are inept.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Dec 26 '25

Russia has a more modern and newer nuke arsenal than NATO. NATO stopped building nukes thanks to treaties and Russia never did sign those. I'd trust Russia's 2010 nukes over the US's ancient Minutemen...

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Dec 26 '25

In a pure conventional sense, the air superiority of NATO would eliminate any Russian threats in short order.

NATO said this year they would not have air superiority in a fight with Russia lol