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.
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should never have permitted the reuinification of Germany
a historic error for which the world will pay a price until the situation is corrected
“Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around” - Putin
Again-—what strategic value is the Ukraine to the USA? NONE. I’m waiting??????????????????????????????????????
If you are talking Poland, Germany members of NATO totally different scenario they are members of NATO and we are treaty obligated to defend them.
You lose nuclear deterrence when your enemy no longer believes you will actually use them. After watching our bumbling bureaucrats woke we still call military generals and admirals and that utter buffoon who is the CNC do you think our enemies believe we will use them? We did this to ourselves.
Fool me once, fool me twice... You still think the US government is telling you the truth anymore than the lying Russians?
Where have you been the last 25 years? One lie after another, no accountability for the thousands of dead and wounded GI’s because of unending lies and incompetence and you run to the vomit and lap it up from the same bunch that screwed up in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and accept what they tell you as gospel?
Our military men and women deserve better, our country deserves better than the BS being shoveled by the BiteMe regime, the CIA, NSA and DOD.
Again I ask-—what strategic value the Ukraine has for the safety and security of the USA?
Before you send in LTC Vindman, better send him to PT for a couple of weeks (or months).
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At least have him cut back on the donuts.
Where now, PT = Pronoun Training.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Lord save us !
Is there not one Russian with a brain, guts, and a Mosin Nagant?
The U.S. Army didn’t allow combat soldiers to refer to any sergeant as “sarge.” In initial training, any soldier who did so was ridiculed and punished. It wasn’t allowed in home units, either.
In the 60's if you did that during training in basic or AIT you would be on your back looking up at 'Sarge' wondering what the heck just happened.
With us later on, it was only PT abuse and ridicule. Repeat offenders did extra duty. ;)
Much respect, redcatcher. Agreed on better dead than red. I suspect that we’ve been seeing a lot of comments from remnants of SDS, Lyndon LaRouche and neo-Nazi followers.
“Avoid foreign entanglements.”
Give Ukraine back their nuclear weapons that they voluntarily gave up for guarantees of their sovereignty in the mid-90s.
That will be a game changers that even psychopath Putin and his troops can understand.
But is it really 7,000?
It’s 7,000 nukes, but how many are fitted to missiles in a state of readiness vs how many are stockpiled?
Also, the ratio isn’t 1:1; they have MIRVs.
I’m rusty on all this; haven’t thought much about it since the wall fell in Berlin.
Never thought I’d see an incompetent American boob actually resuscitate that spectre.
But, if Russia’s Big, Fat, Ukrainian Adventure has revealed anything unexpected, it’s the failure rate of Russian military hardware. Our best intel did not predict the exhibited failures we’ve seen in this conflict. I’d love to see revised numbers for total, and anticipated viable ICBMs.
Henny Bodges, punk fag.
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