Wang Ye's reason for recommending a forceful response and the deployment of strategic weapons in Kaliningrad was not to completely fall out with the West.
This was also the most prudent approach he had arrived at after careful consideration.
First of all, although Russia had been poor these past few years, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. At the very least, it was still a major power that had "inherited" most of the Former Soviet Union's "legacy."
If it failed to deliver a powerful response in the face of others' provocations, Russia's international prestige would be completely ruined!
Second, a response was a response. Being tough was fine, but they could not charge in like reckless fools.
Were they really supposed to go to war with NATO...
Without using the big weapons, they simply could not win!
The other side consisted of more than twenty developed nations banded together, accounting for over 60 percent of the world's total economy!
There was no need to even mention weapons and equipment. In terms of conventional weapons alone, America could crush Russia by itself.
Taking everything into consideration, how they retaliated required considerable skill.
Russia's economy was weak now, and its conventional weapons were also severely lacking because it had no money to upgrade its equipment.
Its international influence was mediocre as well. It no longer had many die-hard little brothers.
In the end, it all came down to one word: poor!
So-called international relations were actually quite simple.
Most countries were snobs who despised the poor, favored the rich, bullied the weak, and feared the strong.
Russia's economy was nothing impressive, and its conventional weapons were no good either. The only thing it could bring out was those "big weapons"!
That was why Wang Ye had proposed this plan.