France still has areas you can’t go into because of the unexploded ordinances. It’s not just a few duds that pop up now and then, there’s areas so peppered with them that people can’t safely use that land.

Look, ancient people did not have nukes. This is an absurd thing to even suggest, and is a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact or proper scientific research.

A cutting edge made by banging rocks together is not at all the same as “ancient nukes.”

Ancient peoples did not have nukes. There is absolutely no real evidence of that. It is just a conspiracy theory.

As a ceramicist, I agree kintsugi would look great, but it won’t be as functional of a cup. Definitely no dishwasher and no microwave anymore, and depending on how they execute the repair, possibly no more using the cup as an actual cup.

Would be nice if OP found a replacement cup and used kintsugi to repair this one just so their mom can have both.

That’s not particularly plausible.

You’re assuming a lot: that Russians will cooperate with a full mobilization. That Ukraine, a country of 43 million people, will somehow “run out of bodies.” That other countries won’t step up their responses long before that occurs. That if that somehow does occur, that NATO would then decide that that’s the time to put boots on the ground.