I find this entire scenario hilarious to be honest, and so please don't misunderstand me as it's really nothing personal against either party involved, but just to make some clarifications on this situation as it potentially affects my Simitzens and thus by extension myself, as John Smith is. . .uhhm conveniently our neighbor . . .
If you want to request John Smith to enter warfare with you, and even that he use nuclear weapons, that is entirely up to you if that is what you want to do.
The meaning of this message here is that I'll point out that if nukes are dropped in the region where my empire resides, regardless of however legitimate the reason may be, I will stop joking around as usual and put on my serious hat, have a cigar in memory of whatever group is responsible, whether it's you or them, and start pushing lots of red buttons.
and whatever anybody may speculate, that's fine although I'm not sure anybody really has any idea how just how many of these red buttons I have available to me, because I'm not even sure how many of these things are around here. All I'll say is that I have quite a few. Some in briefcases, some require a pair of keys, whatever. We have so many damn red buttons over here you have no idea.
I'm not trying to claim that I will have victory. Not at all. I'm just saying many red buttons could possibly become pressed before we are lost to radiation sickness. So if you are so crazy as to request a nuclear conflict than please do not drop retaliatory nukes in our region if you would be so kind, because really we like you we really do but we've also been waiting an awfully long time to test our ever expanding capabilities as we have been carefully polishing the dust off these shiny red buttons.
Regards,
John West
President
Byzenti Republic