I hope you’re not one of those people who think ‘tactical’ nuclear war wouldn’t quickly escalate to mass destruction.
On the contrary, I’m reasonably sure it would.
That’s why deploying them in Russia’s face now just might give pause to future further bad behavior on their part. Poker on a bigger scale. Were none of these weapons ever to be used? That seems unlikely, don’t you think?
“I hope you’re not one of those people who think ‘tactical’ nuclear war wouldn’t quickly escalate to mass destruction.”
Yet Russia and its Fellow Travelers (including on FR) have spent the last year pushing the premise that Russia can nuke New York, London, DC, and etc. and that NATO isn’t supposed to respond in kind.