“We will destroy every Russian conventional force on the ground, without responding to nuclear power with nuclear power,” the former CIA chief said in an interview with ABC News. “I don’t think Vladimir Putin can make Europe suffer,” added the retired US general
If Putin decided to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, NATO would not use nuclear weapons as a countermeasure, but would eliminate Russian forces with conventional weapons. This was stated by US General David Howell Petraeus in an interview with ABC News. For the former CIA chief, the Western powers must take Russia’s nuclear threats seriously. “Just to give you a guess” in case “I think we would respond by eliminating every Russian conventional force that we see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.” can,” explains Petraeus on FERNSEHER.
Ukraine: Petraeus, “Conventional Response to Nuclear Attack”
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A nuclear attack “could not go unanswered,” Petraeus said. “But it doesn’t have to be a big answer: it’s not nuclear for nuclear,” adds the former retired general. “Nuclear escalation, but you have to prove that this cannot be accepted in any way,” says Petraeus. Therefore, the United States’ response, along with NATO, to a possible Russian nuclear attack would be “a collective effort that would eliminate all Russian conventional forces on the battlefield”.
Ukraine, Petraeus: It will be tough, but Europe will make it and stay united
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“The Russians made Napoleon suffer, the Nazis and so on, but I don’t think Vladimir Putin will be able to make Europe suffer. Europe will have a harsh winter, it will have reduced gas flows, but it will make it and not . I think he will split over the issue of support for Ukraine,” concludes former CIA chief David Petraeus.