No matter if they do or not, beeline direct to Moscow, St Petersburg, Murmansk, and blockade the Kaliningrad exclave. Also, Russian troops elsewhere in the world, such as in Africa, are now big fat targets. NATO has a lot of non-nuclear response options here, and even nominal Russian allies like China won’t lodge a complaint once the nuclear taboo is broken.
Ok. Poland reinforces Ukrainian positions, and immediately start pushing back the low morale, beaten down Russian troops. Sevastopool falls .
Then Putin uses a “tactical” nuke to destroy valid military targets in Ukraine. Then what happens?
50/50 chance Russian nukes just plain don’t work.
No matter if they do or not, beeline direct to Moscow, St Petersburg, Murmansk, and blockade the Kaliningrad exclave. Also, Russian troops elsewhere in the world, such as in Africa, are now big fat targets. NATO has a lot of non-nuclear response options here, and even nominal Russian allies like China won’t lodge a complaint once the nuclear taboo is broken.
So we live in a Marvel movie. Very cool.
You might have wondered into the wrong community.