Retired General Tells CNN U.S. Considering Option of Launching Nuclear Strike on Russia
No. Just no.
Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs under George W. Bush, went on CNN to discuss the options that America has should Russians use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
"Look, I think it's fairly simple to lay down the options," he said. "It could be the soft side of it which is doubling-down on sanctions, doubling-down on export controls ranging all the way to a nuclear response of our own and everything in-between."
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No, a nuclear response should NOT be an option unless we are directly attacked.
Our nuclear arsenal is not intended to use against an enemy that hasn't attacked us who happens to be involved in a regional conflict that we don't like. Nuclear weapons are a deterrent to prevent others from nuking us. That's it. For a retired brigadier general and former Pentagon official to be mentioning such an option is ludicrous.
Then again, we're living through the era of the Biden-Harris regime. Nothing seems ludicrous when compared to the rhetoric coming from the White House.
I know how trite this sounds, but "When the inmates are running the asylum." I am in my seventh decade of life. To my earliest memory is the fact, the FACT that the last act to ever be committed by a human being would be to launch a nuclear first strike. Yet this "option" is now raised in public discussion with no more destress than to ask if this Christmas you were considering buying your son his first glove, bat and ball. "Do you see how sophisticated I am? I can say launch a nuclear first strike on Russia to punish them for not submitting to Biden's/D.C.'s/NATO's/Davos' orders to submit to the will of the Ukraine. I can say it even should it mean the annihilation of all humanity, all life on the planet. That will teach Putin to not to mess with the O'biden brain trust." As a six-year-old boy, on my knees, hands clasped behind my head, under my desk I understood, should that happen, I would be dust and it frightened me to the very core of my little being. I have carried this truth with me for over 70 years. Where has that truth gone? It was replaced by Satan with Hell's bravado.
praying that this doesn’t happen.