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Means it doesnt totally necessarily deter against any form of agression at all, not that it fails completely to deter. You have failed to grasp this, then go into a rant about people using the term 'full stop', interpreting it as meaning my statement is definitive, rather than its common usage...

ker-lassic.

no and no

where in my post do i say that? No wonder you dont know how i can say it, if i didnt. your post is a bit of a muddle. you seem in a bit of hurry to take a contradictory position to one you are only assuming exists.

Indeed. And Adams knew we were never going to nuke the falls road. It doesn't deter against aggression full stop, just as being a big lump doesn't stop someone telling you to F off.

Deterrence only works for so long, if being armed was in itself a deterrent no one would ever engage in combat. But this is constantly disproved. At a point this value of deterrence will disappear, due to a failing in rationality, or simply blood being up. Nuclear weapons will be used in...

they will get used at some point in the next few decades, dont worry about that.