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Former CIA director and retired army general David Petraeus in a report:

Petraeus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.

He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.”

I can't imagine he is speaking without having good knowledge that his statement wouldn't be counter-productive.  An unofficial suggestion of a strong response, and one that undoes the 2014 borders.

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Former CIA director and retired army general David Petraeus in a report:

Petraeus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.

He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea.”

I can't imagine he is speaking without having good knowledge that his statement wouldn't be counter-productive.  An unofficial suggestion of a strong response, and one that undoes the 2014 borders.