>Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment".
Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will be no warning shots here.
Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will be no warning shots here.
There are more options available to US than just "fire all the missiles".
I mean any launch by Russia will be declaration of war on everyone.
I don't know the effectiveness of stopping these nukes with missile defense. I suspect the USA has multiple plans that they expect to be effective.
Depends on the target. If its the Ukraine -- maybe not.
Just some economics sanctions...
Ukraine never joined any military alliances. They never took the risk of needing to defend someone else, but in so doing meant they never got us to back them. That was their decision.
>Just some economics sanctions...
You don't end a war by adding to it. These sanctions will destroy the russian people. The russian people are innocent in all of this. If the Russian people do not rise up and overthrow their government. Then the sanctions were not inconveniencing enough for them to do that. Through their actions proving their collaboration.
If we can end this war by sanctions, crushing a nuclear power. The fear of global sanctions will be a message to every single person on Earth that war is no longer possible. We will evolve as the human species to be warless. This will be amazing.
The Russian people have a decision in front of them.
If you respond with nukes its nuclear death for everyone.
If you respond with forces it's still prob going to be nuclear death for everyone.
So uh... Yeah?
It's doubtful that Americans would choose to turn their cities to glass because Putin launched a single rocket in a non-US trajectory. I just don't see that happening.