Blinken: US has told Russia to 'stop the loose talk' on nuclear weapons

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1. I think the US/NATO response would be

a massive and sustained conventional air campaign that would obliterate the Russian Army in Ukraine. I don't think we would respond with nukes because every computer simulated war game the Pentagon has run escalates into a thermonuclear exchange between Russia and the West whenever there is a nuclear response to an initial tactical nuke strike by Russia. I can't remember where I read that but it was some publication by a reputable academic military think tank. Institute for the Study of War, I think.