If the Russian Federation did not possess nuclear weapons, NATO would have deployed forces onto Ukrainian territory to help repel Russian terrorists. Ukraine holds strategic importance for the Alliance, citing NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer at the Prague Defense Summit, which took place from November 8 to 10. “I am absolutely certain that if the Russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would have been in Ukraine a long time ago to kick them out. We certainly would have done that,” Bauer said, adding that “the Taliban do not have nuclear weapons, the Russians do” and this i…