Likely responses:
1. Head in sand (or other place where sun does not shine.)
2. Downplaying the threat as, “Oh, those things won’t work, everything Russian is crap.”
3. Desperately attempting to suddenly fast track missile defenses that they pooh-poohed, defunded and obstructed, then complain that ‘prior administrations didn’t give this needed security tool the priority it deserved.’
Or some combination of the above.
Since a lot of FReepers seem to go with #2 pretty instinctively, there are a lot of dead Turkish tankers that would like to talk to you about how “Russian missiles don’t work.” Also a lot of NATO armor officers that would tell you about the rude wakeup call they got and why NATO is all of a sudden rushing to retrofit APS systems onto tanks. Including the US, by the way. Meanwhile the Israelis are making a lot of money selling Trophy export systems and laughing at the panic when they’ve been telling us for literal decades this was what was going to happen.
Update!
Russia is on the move!
Russia is moving the Generalissimo Suvorov, a strategic nuclear submarine that can carry ballistic missiles with a range of 9,300 kilometres and nuclear warheads, to the Pacific Ocean