Posted on 09/21/2022 7:22:41 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
America will retaliate with 'a devastating strike' against Russia's military if Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the United States Army's former European commander has warned.
Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges today said any response by America 'may not be nuclear' but warned that if Putin were to use nukes in Ukraine that the US could look to 'destroy the Black Sea Fleet or destroy Russian bases in Crimea'.
His comments come after the Russian premier sent shockwaves around the world, as he announced the 'partial mobilization' of his reserve military forces to continue his murderous invasion of Ukraine.
And in a chilling warning directed squarely at Western and Nato leaders, desperate despot Putin insisted he would use 'all means' necessary to defend swathes of territory seized or set to be annexed by Kremlin forces before threatening to use nuclear weapons.
'If there is a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, and in protecting our people we will certainly use all means to us - and I'm not bluffing,' he then added during his televised address to the Russian people on Wednesday morning.
Gen Hodges, who commanded the US Army in Europe between 2014 and 2018, stressed the 'possibility' of Putin ordering a nuclear strike on Ukraine was 'very unlikely'.
But he said the use of any strategic weapons of mass destruction would be met with a swift and severe reaction from President Joe Biden.
'He [Putin] knows the US will have to respond if Russia uses a nuclear weapon,' Gen Hodges told MailOnline.
'The US response may not be nuclear...but could very well be a devastating strike that could, for example, destroy the Black Sea Fleet or destroy Russian bases in Crimea.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well now we know what is going to happen on September 24th that the German official accidentally let slip out the other day.
“Hodges was an Obama general during 2014-15 events.”
Hodges, as European Commander, was directly involved in the coup of 2014.
The blithering idiot. Putin was not threatening to nuke Ukraine. He’s threatening to nuke NATO countries that attack Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. And no European command idiot, there will not be a nuclear war restricted to the Black sea and Ukraine. DC gets vaporized also. There is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. But our neocons and Pentagon types are convinced that they can have a limited war with Russia, And even directly engage Russian forces, and keep it conventional. And they are further convinced that they can even have a limited nuclear war and somehow their homeland won’t get attacked.
Hodges is just not very bright.
No Nukes!!
Yes he does
He’s conservative by nature and culturally
But he bluffs
I’m going to research exactly what he said today on telegram to see
You can’t trust anything the west says
This whole war reporting from the west is lies built on lies
The article quotes the Lt. General as saying that non-conventional weapons would be used to punish Russia. That is thus NOT correctly described as "extending our Nuclear Umbrella."
If, say, Pakistan nuked, e.g., Bangladesh, I suppose you'd say that we should allow Pakistan to go unpunished, right?
Regards,
The psychopaths in the Pentagon have been itching for the big game they were denied in the Cold War. They want a direct American/Russian military confrontation. He wants to bomb Crimea. And these Pentagon fools think they can directly attack Russia, defeat them, and not wind up in a general nuclear war.
And just what authority does a “former commander” have to put on big boy pants and rattle his Rusty ass saber??
“Putin’s bluff has no teeth.”
Stupid people believe 7k nukes is not toothy.
I’ve never heard Putin threatens to nuke Ukraine. I’ve heard him threaten to nuke people who attack his forces in Ukraine. That’s NATO forces and infrastructure. That’s DC. And all we have to do to not get nuked it’s to quit screwing with them on their border and not directly attacked their forces. We came dangerously close to that when we sank their warship. Thankfully they did not attack NATO directly yet. When that happens, there will be no winner despite DC and pentagon fever swamp idiots who envision a short sharp war in Russia going home in defeat. This NATO war would be for all the marbles, and everybody loses.
Can you direct me to this pig trap writing? When I try to search, all I find are literal pig traps, and books about the three little pigs.
Former commands don’t give orders. Apparently former commanders go suck up big bucks saying stuff on TV.
We should not be involved.
Because they aren’t going to nuke Ukraine. They are threatening to nuke us, if we directly attack their forces or inside Russia. But nice straw man.
Since Hunter and Joe have been taking money from Ukraine
“Stupid people believe 7k nukes is not toothy.”
Putin knows that if he uses nukes, his teeth will no longer be chewing on stroganoff.
How can we nuke Russia? According to the liberal media, Trump stole the nuclear codes.
A.) Bush: Strong Support for Ukraine in NATO
B.) John McCain Addresses Ukranian Protesters in Ukraine
C.) Obama Openly Admits ‘Brokering Power Transition’ in Ukraine
D) Salon
3/10/22
“Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Svoboda Party and its founders, Oleh Tyahnybok and Andriy Parubiy, played leading roles in the U.S-backed coup in February 2014. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt mentioned Tyahnybok as one of the leaders they were working with in their infamous leaked phone call before the coup, even as they tried to exclude him from an official position in the post-coup government.
...it was Yarosh who took to the stage in the Maidan and rejected the Feb. 21, 2014 agreement negotiated by the French, German and Polish foreign ministers, under which President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition political leaders agreed to hold new elections later that year. Instead, Yarosh and Right Sector refused to disarm and led the climactic march on Parliament that overthrew the government.
... 2014, Nuland and the State Department got their favorite, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, installed as prime minister of the post-coup government.”
E.) WION
Gravitas Plus: Did NATO Push Ukraine Into War?
“...Palki Sharma tells you how western arrogance and NATO expansionism are also to blame, how their actions precipitated the crisis in Ukraine”
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