Russia, home of the Potemkin nuclear weapons?
The reality is that every strategic nuclear force is kind of like a fake village. It is not really suitable for its original role (winning a war), but it’s quite useful for deterring other countries.
LONDON, U.K.—There’s a lot of performative militarism in Russia at the moment, which is unsurprising given that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is still stalled halfway through the fifth year of the war. The style is more Mussolini than Hitler, however, and the effect is...
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