“We will have our nuclear war, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.”
Because they know, or have been assured, that Biden will never give the order to launch a full retaliation? Only a limited response, if that. And in the chaos of the aftermath of America getting several cities nuked (Jericho-style), the Obiden regime will be able to seize complete and total control, finally, of the USA.
and don’t forget the people in charge buy into global warming and see as the solution a massive depopulation.