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The problem is that it opens a floodgates.

If putin launches nukes at Ukraine, then an event horizon has been crossed.

If we respond with nuclear force, then it's immediate nuclear Armageddon.

If we respond with anything short of nuclear force, Putin learns that there is no threat of nuclear punishment, and begins flinging nukes at everyone else.

AloneIBreak posted...

What makes you think nukes would reach their destination faster than a missile with a non-nuclear warhead?

It really doesn't matter. Once the first nuke is fired, Putin will launch more if someone so much as sneezes in his general direction. Why on earth wouldn't he? Making the decision to fire that first nuke is essentially a declaration that you no longer care whether the world lives or dies. Whether it's a regular missile coming his way or a nuke, the response will be launching all the nukes before he dies. So, yes, the response WOULD be too slow. Anything short of a literal instantaneous obliteration of Russia's government and military leadership would be too slow.

It's a super shitty situation. Either the world ends, or the world except Russia ends (well, before they die out in the following months).