One question I haven’t seen an answer to yet: if this thing had been loaded with the maximum available warheads, although they presumably wouldn’t have detonated, how large an area would have been contaminated with how much radioactive material from their rapid unscheduled disassembly? The Russian nuclear arsenal may be a bigger threat to the Russians than the people they want to attack, even without taking the possibility of wind blowing fallout from a successful strike back into Russia into account. Not that Putin cares.
For those unable to read the article, and who haven’t heard about this through other channels . . .
The issue is that Quebec is actively throwing Francophone minorities in other parts of Canada under the bus, which goes beyond them being “reluctant to defend” them. The Quebec government doesn’t seem to care that the weapons it’s using against its Anglophone linguistic minority can be turned around to attack Francophones in the rest of the country. What they do doesn’t necesarily stop at their borders.
It’s been a while since I had any reason to talk to a Franco-Ontarian about Quebec politics, but Quebec used to be considered snooty, obnoxious, and out of touch at best.