Whiskey said…
“. To the degree that Russia can move people into dispersed villages instead of cities, nukes are a far LESS threat than to the highly urbanized West and China. If most Russians live in villages spread out, then Moscow and St. Petersberg are not very good targets. They can be destroyed, which would hurt Russia, but not as mortally as the loss of DC, Paris, London, Rome, NYC, Shanghai, and Beijing would hurt the west and China.”
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Tim Newman said…
“Russia would be toast without Moscow. The whole place is so damned centralised that nobody can sneeze without first getting authorisation from Moscow.”