He pointed out that within just a few hours, NATO would destroy key Russian military facilities, including those in Kaliningrad and Sevastopol.

Hodges spoke about this in an interview for the Vote Talk project, stressing that such a scenario cannot be compared to the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine.

" Russia  has no chance in a direct conflict with NATO. Imagine that in 2025 Russia attacked Poland in the same pattern as it attacked Ukraine. NATO would react immediately. The air force and ground forces of the Alliance would destroy its troops. Kaliningrad would be eliminated in the first hours of the conflict - there would be nothing left. All Russian military facilities in that the enclaves would be destroyed," Hodges said.

⚡️"If Russia attacks NATO, Kaliningrad and Sevastopol will be annihilated."



In the event of a direct confrontation with Russia, NATO would"wipe out Kaliningrad and Sevastopol within the first few hours," said former U.S. Army Europe commander Ben Hodges.

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As he added, the same applies to Sevastopol .

" Russian military bases there would also not survive the first hours of hostilities," he added.

Hodges claims that Russia has no chance in an open conflict with NATO and that it is therefore wrong to compare such a scenario with the war in Ukraine.

According to him, at the very beginning of the large-scale invasion 2022, NATO should have taken a firmer position, i.e. openly declared that the goal of the West is the full restoration of Ukrainian control over internationally recognized territories and that the Ukrainian army should be provided with all the necessary resources for this.

"If it had been declared a joint strategic goal from the beginning, the situation would look completely different today. Ukraine would be in a better position," Hodges is convinced.