Yeah, but that is an escalation which would first, not provide a testing ground for Russian conventional weapons systems and upgrades, and second, crosses a threshold that has remained since WWII. Once crossed, the genie is out of the bottle, and the use of Nuclear weapons in retaliation against not only Russia, but the Western Powers becomes a real possibility, as soon as such can be developed or deployed.
It is one thing to have a rollicking fistfight, but the nature of the fight changes when someone pulls a knife or fires a shot.
So far, this is just shaping up to be a slugfest as far as countries go, even if the sides don't seem even, and don't fight the same.
It is only a threshold that will soon be broken. Gas hadn’t been used since ww2 and then in the middle east gas was used. Look the Davy Crockett Nuke is technology that is half a century old. A 50 pound nuke.
With demographics of moslum sharia in reality taking over the industrialized old world, those fingers on the nuclear trigger will be moslum in a decade. The question is who will throw the first punch. The human race is approaching the dark ages of Sharia. How do we modernize and tone down islum? By breeding with it? Nope not with the Islamic man having two wives and the man controlling the family under sharia.
People point to Turkey but Turkey is not longer a freedom of religion country but ruled under a party very much under Koranic influence. IF we nuke the moslums now. we have a chance of stopping them, especially if Russia does the nuking.....although the optimum idea is that the Shiites and the sunnis nuke each other....ie; the Iranians and Saudis.
Basically we are going to be playing in the NFL soon, the Nuclear Football League. In that game, the first touchdown wins. I want our side running the offense.