The threat was, if Russian territory was invaded, when it comes to that, they are stone cold serious. They don’t have the manpower of the Soviet Union anymore, so yes, nukes.
Wouldn’t we use nukes if a coalition of dozens of nations invaded us openly?
You haven't been paying attention the last 4 years. A 5th column in our government is helping that coalition, even flying them in and using taxpayer money to house/feed them.
The discussion was about our failing economy due to BRICS. About losing our dominance because the US dollar is being replaced and should that happen, our debt is larger than our entire worth as a nation. He was saying that perhaps the US would take down everyone with them before being being subject to such utter financial collapse.
This is quite plausible. Consider the idiots that now infest our government and military. They haven’t won a major war since Desert Storm and foreign policy wise they haven’t got anything right since Reagan left office. When Reagan left office the adults for the most part went with him. Aside from the reprieve of Trump who realized the world has changed since 1991, and tried to adapt US strategic foreign policy into something that actually worked, the rest blunder forward leaving a trail of failures and destruction acting like nothing has changed since 1965.
Now we are supposed to believe that the Russians will never use nukes, only we can and will use them. They discount human nature and believe their own rhetoric which is dangerous. The fact of the matter is when we had political idiots in office our enemies knew the US military could and would use nuclear weapons and we had deterrence. At this point our military “leadership” and I use that term laughingly couldn’t deter a crack addict because they are no longer respected by their own people or our enemies.
Could the Russians use nukes, yes under the right circumstances. Are they likely too, no. But if we miscalculate and they do all the naysayers and experts will be going, but wait, we didn’t mean for that to happen, time out! Except there will be no time out, only an oh sh*t moment upon impact of the nukes.