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White House quoted yesterday as saying they haven't seen any reason to change their nuclear stance. Mind you, that could also be bluff or optics.
Given their first round response is likely to be conventional, its noteworthy there hasn't been any noticeable stepping up of the US's conventional forces in Europe. It doesn't appear they have the forces in place here to conduct anything more than a token strike somewhere. Unless of course it'll be more along the lines of Libya, with European states committing much of the firepower.