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The US and its allies would destroy Russias troops and equipment in Ukraine as well as sink its Black Sea fleet if Russian president Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in the country, former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned on Sunday.
Petreaus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.
He told ABC News: Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato a collective effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.
The warning comes days after Putin expressed views that many have interpreted as a threat of a larger war between Russia and the west.
Asked if the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine would bring America and Nato into the war, Petreaus said that it would not be a situation triggering the alliances Article 5, which calls for a collective defense. That is because Ukraine is not part of Nato nonetheless, a US and Nato response would be in order, Petreaus said.
Petreaus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.
He told ABC News: Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato a collective effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.
The warning comes days after Putin expressed views that many have interpreted as a threat of a larger war between Russia and the west.
Asked if the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine would bring America and Nato into the war, Petreaus said that it would not be a situation triggering the alliances Article 5, which calls for a collective defense. That is because Ukraine is not part of Nato nonetheless, a US and Nato response would be in order, Petreaus said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-putin-ukraine-war-david-petraeus
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Petraeus: US would destroy Russia's troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine (Original Post)
Jenny von Westphalen
Oct 2022
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msongs
(67,395 posts)1. not likely nt
Metaphorical
(1,602 posts)2. Oh, I suspect that it would happen
The US in particular has had eight months to build up troops and infrastructure all the way across the NATO border. A nuclear attack in Ukraine is a tripwire at this point, and would represent an escalation that would need to be met swiftly and decisively. It would not be met by a corresponding nuclear response, but it would be very nearly as painful for Russia. I don't see there really being any other alternative.
Irish_Dem
(46,924 posts)3. Yes. The US and NATO have 12,000 troops sitting in Poland right now.
They are there for a reason, and it is not just for protecting Poland.
I agree, once Putin starts using nukes and posing a real threat to Europe,
mobilization of NATO troops into Ukraine to fight the Russians is on the table.
And we want Putin to know it quite clearly.