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The highlight of my summers, as a kid, was going to Niagara-on-the-Lake to watch the air show. I would eat ice cream at Avondale Dairy and watch the small planes. Then a huge shadow would cover us as the Avro Vulcan made its yearly low level overpass. Fantastic. V Putin should be worried if Europe finally decides to grow some balls and say enough is enough. Russia has the equivalent economy of Spain, have lost close to 700000 men, through killed or injured in action, still haven't taken Ukraine almost three years after the two week special operation was supposed to end, and had to call on North Korea for help. I would think Germany, England, France, or even Italy would have taken the fight to Russia so that their citizens could see what is really happening. I realize Ukraine won't do it, but a few Storm Shadow cruise missiles into the heart of Moscow would wake a lot of people up. They fire an 'experimental' IRBM and everyone is wringing their hands; how many more do you think they have ? And judging by the 'capabilities' of their Armed Forces so far, I would imagine their nuclear arsenal in in a similar sorry state. Do you think V Putin and his generals don't realize this ? All Russia has left is boisterous bravado.

My grandad, who was a chief technician on Avro Vulcans loaded with Blue Steel nuclear standoff bombs then, said he was on 24 hour standby at that time. He said it was very close to happening.

It’s my understanding the ones on continuous patrol had nukes aboard for retaliation efforts. Part of the deterrence triad, which would survive a first strike. They could have done this for Cuba with conventional payloads, but I’ve not seen anything that confirms this.

Critical thinking involves understanding and contextualizing questions and facts. I am very curious about what you think critical thinking is.

Do you think you can respond without sounding like a pompous asshole?

Several members have answered your leading question, including me somewhere back there, and you seem to have ignored their replies and the reasoning behind them. You aren't really having a conversation, AFAICT, so I'm moving on.

Probably not, It's like asking how many ball's in an over...

And several members, including yourself, also fail to understand what critical thinking is.

About the only thing I will say about Critical Thinking on this site is that if others have other accounts on the other site I posted this hypothetical on it seems as if none of them use the same name on both sites. That means this site is where they say things that they wouldn't say on the other site and this site is where they dishonestly troll their biased opinions. BYW, it appears that NATO leaders are worried that they will be drawn into a global nuclear war if RUSSIA retaliates on either the UK or US mainland.