If ICBMs can reach practically anywhere in the northern emisphere why do countries worry about misiles placed in a neighbouring country?
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Even though they are flying at hypersonic speeds, they still need time to reach their target. So, for example, instead of 20mins from the US to Moscow, if you place missiles in Ukraine, they will need only 2mins or even shorter. So, Russian response would need to be much quicker. To decide, is that real nuclear missiles, or is it some satellite lunch or some other test or exercise? And this is also dangerous for the whole world because during the Cold War, we avoided nuclear wars because sides had time to decide should they act on some radar or satelite detection or not. Both in the USSR and the US, we had false positives on ICBM lunches..
If this happens, you will have some officers monitoring radar and early warning systems and waiting to lunch counter strike asap, no time to think twice. And you know how reliable is Russian tech. Sooo… please no..
This is similar to the situation with Cuba and the USSR.. The US is still sanctioning them to this day; they even had invasion..
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