“Then we would unleash death on them.”
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I don’t believe we would, but we would get someone else to do it for us.
If former US military leaders are being used to make public the positions of the US government then it would be the USA that would do the job.
"A former CIA director warned that the US and NATO allies would destroy Russian forces if Russian President Vladimir Putin used nuclear weapons in his war with Ukraine."
"Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a NATO – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.' "
And that would be the response to a tactical nuclear weapon used in Ukraine. Any attack on a US or NATO nation would lead to utter destruction of Russia.
Other US proposals have included sinking all Russian flagged ships, blockading their ports, and establishing a no-fly zone over Eastern Russia and Ukraine.