Originally Posted by
NWSRG
Agree...how would the west respond to a tactical nuke? If responding in kind, then surely it has to be a cruise missile...ICBMs just raise the game massively, whether sub or land based. And what is the target? If it is within Russia, then the ICBMs may come from the east!
Maybe we accept the faked referendum results and play the long game...an aging Putin and a restless populace. Combined with sanctions and an economy going down the pan, maybe just let Russia take care of Russia. The sanctions to be reviewed if and when Ukraine returns to 2014 lines?
If Putin uses a tactical nuke on Ukraine, the West, which is primarily the USA and the West, will strike all Russian units in Ukraine and on the border of Ukraine with a massive conventional strike or strikes until completely (and I mean completely) destroyed.
You are looking at the full weight of conventional power. Mostly sea, sub and air launched. Shock and awe the likes of which we have not seen.
All this would come with an ultimatum that another nuke strike would result in a massive retaliatory nuke strike.
It's the second Putin nuke that worries me.