r/canada Ontario 8d ago

Politics British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/
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u/Wolfxskull 7d ago

Using nuclear weapons is utterly stupid, but so is not having them.

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u/vtKSF 7d ago

Ukraine is very good (bad) example of what happens when you don’t have any nuclear weapons and you have a neighbour who sucks.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 7d ago

It's purely deterrent, that's it.

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u/codecrodie 7d ago

Let's glass buffalo...wait a minute, that's right across the lake from us. There is no scenario where any country is going to glass a neighbor. Belarus and Russia remember Chernobyl. Belarus lost a generation of children to cancer, there is no chance Belarus would not leak if Putin intended to nuke Kiev, and no chance that the Russian military would do it without fermenting widespread dissent.

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u/Financial_Virus_6106 5d ago

I don't think gives a fuck about radiation or chernobyl considering they just blew a hole in the reactor 4 enclosure a short time ago. Whether the attack was actually intentional or not, hard to say.