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But he could be trying to win a victory for Russia on his own by getting close enough to decapitate the command-control; he doesn't have to be trying to destroy the world, only the small portion of it that belongs to us(that would entail destroying a good part of his part to but we are assuming he is mad and any responsible officer has to allow for that).
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If all he wanted to do was launch his missiles, he could have done that from the Barents Sea. Unless you're an old Yankee or November, they didn't need to transit the GUIK Gap. So shooting him off the coast of Newfoundland, would have been very cowboy-ish.