Well, then may be you should volunteer.

That was promised by US General Miley, not by any Russian official or citizen.

So we have in this nugget an example of why you shouldn't trust western media, but not an example of why the west wont fold like a cheap deck.

So what do you think the rational response to the nukebullies should be? Give him all he wants? How are reasonable deterrence preparations "Bravado"?

They never mean it, it's a threatening tactics. Their children live in western countries and their money is there. They wouldn't allow nuking western countries just like that. ESPECIALLY if they know they attacked first. Even their own doctrine doesn't allow using nukes for anything except the direct external threat to their statehood.

Russia has been making that sort of threat roughly weekly for a decade or two. It's kind of their thing.

They are unlikely to nuke Europe - there's a lot of it and they only really have a couple of decent cities which could be gone rapidly.