Graft is a big component here too. We saw how bad it was during the initial invasion in Feb 2022. And that was with items that might actually be used at some point (tanks, trucks, etc). When you are in charge of maintaining nukes, and you are given a pile of money/material to do it, what percentage of that even makes it to the final product? If you are in charge of 50, maybe you just fix up 5 and siphon off what you can for the rest.
Who is going to check, who is going to know? I mean, you do have a few fully functional units, if someone pokes around too hard (they won’t), direct them at one of those.
There’s a lot of speculation that their nuclear capabilities are severely diminished as well, but I think it’s all just speculation.
I fully expect Russia to have fully functional nukes. It’s likely a small minority of their full compliment, but they certainly do exist. Let’s not find out for sure though. MAD sucks for everyone and is best left alone.
Also fuck Russia for constantly threatening to use the nukes. If you have some spare cash Ukraine could use it.
Graft is a big component here too. We saw how bad it was during the initial invasion in Feb 2022. And that was with items that might actually be used at some point (tanks, trucks, etc). When you are in charge of maintaining nukes, and you are given a pile of money/material to do it, what percentage of that even makes it to the final product? If you are in charge of 50, maybe you just fix up 5 and siphon off what you can for the rest.
Who is going to check, who is going to know? I mean, you do have a few fully functional units, if someone pokes around too hard (they won’t), direct them at one of those.
I fully expect Russia to have fully functional nukes. It’s likely a small minority of their full compliment, but they certainly do exist. Let’s not find out for sure though. MAD sucks for everyone and is best left alone.
Also fuck Russia for constantly threatening to use the nukes. If you have some spare cash Ukraine could use it.