“…the claim that so many people from so many agencies…”
That prompts the question Well what exactly ARE they doing? They are apparently poking the bear and think him helpless to retaliate. Problem is retaliation needn’t necessarily involve nukes. He could sink a couple of carriers. Or all of them What would we do in that case go nuclear? Could we do that any more the him? The nuclear deterrent may yet be in force and force exchanges that shatter each nations conventional stuff conventionally. We’re effing around and one way or another we’re gonna find out…
Putin launched a European invasion and ran into more resistance than he anticipated, a military depleting 3 years of it, I doubt that he now wants to go to war against America and the rest of Europe by trying to sink some American aircraft carriers.
Attacking American aircraft carriers would of course be a formal declaration of war against all NATO forces.