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originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: musicismagic
Russian hardliners insist on “use of small nuclear weapons”
There is no such thing as a "small" nuke.
Any use of a nuke will lead to the economic destruction of Russia for a generation, and all involved being hunted as war criminals. Hopefully, Putin will be assassinated the moment he tries to order the use of a nuke. He won't survive the cruise missile, though!
They will not go after Putin even if he uses nukes. The likely scenario is NATO has told Rusia use of nukes will cause NATO troops to expell Russia from Ukraine and loss of the black sea fleet.
If this is triggered within a week all Ukrainian territory will be returned including Crimea.
I doubt Russia could last 3 days against a coalition force. They can't fight at night and western troops can.
Putin had no other choice.
You have to take the blinkers off, step in a Russian pair of shoes and look at it from their perspective