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Wow so from 0 to 100 in a heartbeat ...nukes come right out asap, you feel if a smart guy like putin cant have some 3rd rate shithole he goes straight to the mutual suicide option and nothing in between!! Hes not some loony tinpotThere is no weaker positions when it comes to MAD, so unless the USA has an effective missile defense opposing Russia directly is just as suicidal for the USA than it is for Russia.
As to whether you think that you can wage a war between countries with extensive first and second strike capabilities without them resorting to escalation of conflict when they are losing, well thats something that we really dont know.
And we dont know because in the decades of history we never saw such powers facing each other directly, not in Vietnam, not in Afghanistan, nowhere at all.
Lets imagine putin isnt keen to die in a firey apocalypse shall we .....other than nukes literaly everything else is hugely outmatched and he knows it thus hes forced to work with us on a face saving option.
Actualy u.s and soviet planes clashed regularly in korea
In this nothing so drastic occurs more likely it goes like this:
We declare no fly zone over some areas to protect civilians from syrian airforce
Russia is then forced to either stay down or co ordinate with the west when its birds fly through zones
If not an 'unidentified' plane is shot down in colossal air mismatch...the russians bitch and bluster about it..we know its all bluff but for face saving we apologise profusely and offer to work closer to prevent such tragedies again.
The russians then focus on isis or scale down their operation again (they are running outta cash reserves if i recall reading) and declare it their intention all along.