The Russians ain’t going to respond militarily. Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Yes. And they forced us to remove missiles from Turkey.
Seems we blinked.
“The Russians ain’t going to respond militarily. Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?”
Starting wars in the belief that the other side wouldn’t dare fight back is a fool’s thought process. Every street cop can tell you that no matter how weak the other side is, everyone can be provoked eventually, even if it results in their own demise.
Our string of insults and humiliations will eventually go too far and the hit back could be very bad.
And the hit back could come in the form of one local commander giving an order to fire.
Remember in the Cuban missile crisis, ONE Soviet sub commander was ready to fire a nuclear tipped torpedo. It took a vote of three. The political officer voted no.
We assume MOSCOW won’t hit back, but some Russian being bombed might think it makes sense to fire back. Grunts can be touchy.
I have absolutely no problem with the Russians nuking DC, as long as Congress is in full session and Trump is elsewhere.
Trumps mistake is he has waited too long and those vodka addled retards in Moscow are finally getting around to playing hardball.