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Trump’s America is Putin’s ally now
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The UK and France have nukes too. I’m of the opinion that Europe could handle Russia in current state as they’re weak thanks to this war, but that also depends on how much help, either direct or indirect, Trump is willing to give Russia. China too, for that matter.
China will rather take a good bite out of outer Manchuria, traditional Chinese clay. There's a reason they've been making so much noise about Taiwan and the South China Sea and it is not because they want you to look anywhere else. Might not even want to keep it, would be a nightmare to administer and justify, but having all of Russia east of the Ural turn into a couple of Mongolias would very much be in their favour. Mongolia is open for business and not a headache for them.
And if taking out imperial Russia finally gets them out of their "century of humiliation" stroppiness then I'm all for it. Oh, and Russia falling is of course also more than welcome.
When peace finally returns, a Trans-Siberian Railway upgraded to Chinese Belt And Road high-speed standards will be an improvement.
The UK ones are in a wierd rental deal where if I remember correctly the us holds at least 1 of the keys
Edit for a link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68357294
The "rental" part of the deal is that we leased the missiles from America and pay an American company to maintain them. Once they're fitted with a warhead (done in Britain) and loaded aboard the sub, though, they can be fired with literally no outside participation. Being a submarine-based deterrent as it is, they kinda have to be able to operate independently from anything on the land, British government included.
I stand corrected. I'm clearly misremembering. It was around 2014 when the subject was last at the fore front of my mind. For some odd reason
Actually, unofficially, there are more of these kinds. It's a public secret now anyways. Wait, I don't know about the keys though..
Not talking about subs,but the payload.