Mega Steve: erik-k: BrundleFlyForAWhiteGuy: AirForceVet: My personal fear follows Admiral Ackbar's thinking. What if Ukraine forces move into Kherson, then Putin drops a tactical nuke on Kherson?

Putin won't use nukes. The instant he does, his remaining lifespan will be measured in days.

The West wouldn't even have to use nukes in retaliation. We'd kick his shiat In conventionally with a level of violence and swiftness not seen since Desert Storm.

Happening as it did only a few months after the dissolution of the USSR, Soviet leaders were able to watch with the rest of us on CNN as American aircraft flew through Baghdad's soviet-manufactured air defenses with utter impunity, and as American Abrams tanks shredded Soviet armor like it was tinsel paper.

In a prediction that aged like whole milk during an Arizona summer, some moron in February predicted that Russia's attack on Ukraine would be a "Sputnik moment." Operation Desert Storm, however, was a true Sputnik moment: It was the first time we'd seen Western arms in action, against an opponent with Soviet equipment, that seriously thought it could stand against them on a battlefield... and it was a wipeout the likes of which the world had never seen before. The Russian generals watching it were in uncomprehending disbelief at how far behind the Soviets had fallen, much like Gorbachev when he was casually shown a small town grocery store which put even what Party elites in Moscow could get to shame.

Well... We've been making 32 years of advances in precision munitions, targeting tracking, stealth and electronics. Desert Storm today would have begun with a thousand GPS-guided missiles fired from over the horizon destroying every piece of artillery Baghdad without them ever getting a chance to fire a shell. And Russia has spent 32 years being stolen blind by the oligarchs and Russian Hitler.

To say we would "kick his shiat in" doesn't even begin to describe it. And everyone knows it.

And we're sending Ukraine our old shiat, ...