# Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ukraine-invasion, breaking-news\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037 "2022-02-24T08:30:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8354
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037/8354 "2022-09-22T03:38:54Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I agree with **iiandyiiii** ’s suggestion: a nuke should be met with a full NATO conventional intervention in _Ukraine_, but no further. We had a thread on “What to do if the nukes start flying” a few months ago. I still stand by my plan: > [@Imagine you are president and Putin nukes Kyiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-you-are-president-and-putin-nukes-kyiv/961809/77): > > To get back to the real topic, my response would be to try to attack Russia both directly and indirectly, while trying to avoid a full scale nuclear war. To that end, I quite publicly state that, although the nuking of Kyiv provides the moral justification for full scale nuclear war, I am magnanimously refraining (at least for now…) from turning Russia into a giant hole in the ground. Everything that follows is done at the same time as the most massive propaganda effort ever made to get informa… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037)._