On: A high energy hadron collider on the Moon

[Filligree]

The lack of Russia rolling over all of Eastern Europe is a pretty decent benefit.

[exe34 → Filligree]

so you just need the nukes then?

[macintux → exe34]

Unclear. Current evidence is that nukes are insufficient, and given the non-trivial chance that the next U.S. administration would pull out of NATO, it’s not even obvious that the nukes would be a factor.

[JumpCrisscross → macintux]

> Current evidence is that nukes are insufficient, and given the non-trivial chance that the next U.S. administration would pull out of NATO

Isn’t this evidence of nukes being necessary?

[macintux → JumpCrisscross]

It’s not evidence of nukes being sufficient, which was the original question.

[JumpCrisscross → macintux]

> It’s not evidence of nukes being sufficient

Someone else’s nukes being insufficient. The last few years have shown nuclear powers are inviolable, to the point of causing allies of non-nuclear powers being violated by them drawing red lines in the violator’s defence.

[exe34 → JumpCrisscross]

although over the last week, the Kievan Rus has been liberating Kursk from the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

[exe34 → macintux]

it's okay, the UK and France have enough between us to glass Moscow.

[skywhopper → exe34]

No. If we only had nukes, Russia would have little to fear from invading neighboring countries with conventional weapons. Have our nukes stopped them from doing so now?

[exe34 → skywhopper]

are these neighbouring countries in NATO now?