| Weitz ‘18 (Richard Weitz is a director at the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson, "Exploiting Sino-Russian Nuclear Divergence", 08-02-2018, Hudson, https://www.hudson.org/research/14601-exploiting-sino-russian-nuclear-divergence)(Shiv)
Several possible reasons explain these contrasting responses. First, Russian leaders are preoccupied with nuclear capabilities because Moscow relies on them to maintain great power status. Without nuclear weapons, Russians rightly fear their country would become a regional power of limited international influence – the dread of Russian strategists.
They wouldn’t even be a sovereign state
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