How about Kamala?
Those are both questions, mind you. :)
Joe might. He’s got a temper.
He called for Putin’s removal.
Kamala probably would. She has no problem destroying opposition.
But remember if Russia launches nukes, it will invoke NATO. Boris Johnson would launch. Macron might.
Putin is an aggressor and has dreams of being the guy who restored all the prior conquests of Russia. But he doesn’t want to be the guy who nuked the world and got his own country nuked in return.
And given that he can’t even beat Ukraine, he’s got to be wondering how well his country could fight a nuclear war.
There are reports that Putin used chemical weapons on Mariupol overnight. I’m guessing part of the response is Ukraine is going to get the fighters now.