If the Russians were going to nuke us, I think it’ll be much quicker than this.
There will come a time when the US must have Russian oil, and Russia will specify a price for it that cannot be printed by the Fed. They will demand disarmament.
THAT would be the hill to die on. 1.5 Billion is pretty light, actually. You hit refineries and ports and starvation kills more than radiation. Yes, that is the hill to die on.
Not a country 8000 miles away that essentially no one in the US cared about 6 months ago. Mostly what is going on is the DNC commissioned a poll asking how they can reduce damage in the Mid terms. The answer was . . . get the virus off the front page. They jumped on this opportune story.