An attack on Superbowl Sunday would find us unable to defend ourselves—everyone will be watching the game when the EMF pulse, fired from a sub off California blanks out the whole computer system.
Putin is a fool but he is not completely stupid. That is an act of war and we would sink every ship in Crimea, the Baltics, and the Pacific.
The Russians had 6 jets shot down in the Georgian invasion, lol. Their logistics proved that they are not ready for a serious peer war.