“The US has satellite views of the gas storage tanks and pipelines and could hit them and stop the tanks.”
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US hits Russia and it’s “Hello, WW3”! All bets are off.
It can be done anonymously and with plausible deniability.
Yes.
All these years of mutual assured destruction have not erased the terrible possibility that two egotistical world leaders will posture, escalate and bluff and escalate some more until only World War III is left with nukes to wipe us all out.
We can't stop them from starting a nuke war any more than in the 1964 Dr.Strangelove. Why can't those screenplays stay fiction?