According to Ben Hodges, a former commander of the US Army in Europe, if Moscow decides to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the US might destroy Russia’s Black Sea Fleet stationed in Crimea or its facilities there.
Hodges deemed it “extremely improbable” that Russian President Vladimir Putin would command the deployment of nuclear weapons in an interview with the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
Putin won’t, according to him, because “he understands that if Russia uses a nuclear bomb, the US will have to retaliate.”
“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,” Hodges, who was in charge of the US forces in Europe between 2014 and 2018, said. “So, I think President Putin and those around him will be reluctant to draw the US into the conflict directly.”
The remarks were made in reaction to Putin’s speech earlier that day, in which he claimed that Russia is waging war in Ukraine against “the whole Western military machine,” highlighting the generous intelligence and deadly support that the US, UK, EU, and other countries have lavished upon Kiev.
He said that “we will definitely employ all the measures that we have to protect Russia and our people if the territorial integrity of our nation is challenged.”
John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, stated that while the Biden administration took Putin’s remarks “seriously,” it was “irresponsible language for a nuclear power to behave that way.”
Following the declaration that the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the Russian-controlled districts of Zaporozhye and Kherson, would hold referendums on joining Russia between September 23 and 27, Moscow’s policy in Ukraine changed.
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