South Korea on Friday called on Russia to halt its arms deal with North Korea following a White House announcement that North Korean ballistic missiles were used in Russian attacks against Ukraine. A senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul said on this day that by hauling arms from North Korea, Russia was “contradicting” the United Nations Security Council resolutions despite being a p...
No, no it’s not. There are plenty of systems in place that could intercept an icbm, and many of those are aimed right at Russia. At the moment the only real hope of MAD would be if Russia could fire a large enough number to overload such systems.
Nukes and icbms are very expensive to maintain, and the Russian leadership has been embezzling a ton of that money for decades. It wouldn’t be a far stretch, given their losses in the Ukraine, to assume that their nuclear capabilities suffered the same fate.
Plus, I’m sure the US has a spy satellite network pointed at Russia 24/7 to monitor their nuclear activities.
The real reason it won’t happen is because Putin has a ton of dirt on the GOP and likely has it on a Deadman switch (the DNC’s emails weren’t the only ones hacked).