Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that any Russian use of chemical weapons would provoke a severe Western response, while adding any U.S. action should stop short of American troops directly fighting Russia’s forces
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"Whatever caution the administration may have in the supply of aircraft and other things will fall by the wayside," Mr. Schiff said at the South by Southwest conference in the Texas capital. combat jets to Ukraine, calling the proposal Warsaw had made to hand the planes over via a U.S. military base "high risk.", though, as Ukraine tries to repel the much-larger invading Russian forces.if it used chemical weapons as Western officials grow increasingly worried that Moscow will resort to deploying chemical, biological or nuclear weapons after struggling to make headway in the war in Ukraine.
Any U.S. response in such a chemical-attack scenario, Mr. Schiff said, "if it's military, it's going to have to abide by the same principle that we're not going to get into a direct shooting war with Russia."
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