Pre-emptive US Strike Near Center of Table

While the Russians claim that a pre-emptive Nuclear strike is not "off the table for them" the U.S. has countered that it would be well for the Russians to consider the fact that a U.S pre-emptive strike is not only off the table, it's at the center of the table, and if the Russians get a little itchy in the trigger finger, they had better wipe the fingers clean before they wind up glowing in the Siberian winter like a never ending radio active camp fire.

The Russians, under the leadership of Putin, have recently become somewhat harebrained and seem to have forgotten that nuclear war tends to end all known life forms outside of cockroaches on the planet, and the idea of somehow starting such a war in the hope of fending off an attack would be mutually annihilating. But Putin, who had never won awards for brilliance in international affairs doesn't seem to be interested in what can only be seen as reality.

The Rag Box suggests that the Russians keep their former Soviet mouths shut and figure out how to turn their country into something other than the Cubans want to visit.