“When you attack an opponent’s part of the national survival system, which is their triad, their nuclear triad — that means your risk level goes up because you don’t know what the other is going to do … It’s a very emboldened act. And when you do that, it’s very clear that the risk levels will go up. That is what we try to avoid,” Kellogg said

Is Kellogg working part time for Kremlin? It’s the same good old “don’t provoke Russia by defending yourself, let them have whatever they want”.