Putin’s moving tactical nukes on portable launchers, something I spoke of a couple days ago, is now proceeding.
Putin is willing to use tactical nukes likely on recently liberated cities, despite the radioactive cloud shifting over actual Russian territory. These launchers moving towards the border, within the approximately 350 mile radius that the missiles are expected to be able to reach, should tell the world as well as Putin, what sort of resolve the US, EU and Ukraine has.
The best option is to communicate directly with Russia, draw a redline, and if Putin crosses, act immediately with as powerful a non-military strike as humanly possible. While the sanctions are already unprecedented, they can go much further via hitting secondary contributors propping up the Russian economy.
That redline should be BEFORE the missiles are in range as that would constitute an imminent threat and justifiable preemptive strike at the launchers within Ukraine. The US should, if it hasn’t already done so secretly, deploy the Patriot missile defense system or a more advanced system to Kyiv post haste. While its probable to destroy a launched missile via a counter launch in another NATO country, it would be far better that the Ukrainians do so. With a 50% intercept rate for ICBM tests during the Trump administration, there isn’t much of a window to strike one of these while at its highest peak in its trajectory.
These nuclear threats are currently well clear of the border, on a train, yet could be within range of the border within a day or two.
Tactical nukes are a significant threat, more so than the FOAB, the largest conventional bomb ever dropped on a battlefield, as they spread significant radioactive material that will circulate along air currents for likely centuries given radioactive decay rates. That will be true even if a nuclear missile is intercepted and destroyed anywhere below the Earth’s atmosphere.
Just in case anyone has forgotten what an evil monster Putin is, this was only a few months ago. Imagine the oxygen being sucked out of everyone’s lungs until they explode.
I’m a lung patient so this was an especially nasty one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/vacuum-bombs-thermobaric-russia-ukraine-rcna18127