NATO Military Chief Says Troops Would Be on Ground if Not for Russian Nukes [Video]

NATO troops would be on the ground in Ukraine fighting Russian forces if Moscow did not have nuclear weapons, the head of the alliance’s military committee has said.

“I am absolutely sure if the Russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would have been in Ukraine, kicking them out,” Admiral Rob Bauer, the outgoing chief of NATO‘s Military Committee, said during an appearance at the IISS Prague Defence Summit in the Czech Republic on Sunday.

Russia has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, followed closely by the U.S.’ nuclear arsenal. Combined, Moscow and Washington control around 90 percent of the nuclear weapons across the globe.

As Moscow’s troops poured into Ukraine in late February …