squizzler
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There are a lot on this forum who apparently believe that Putin would be more willing to use atomic bombs than free nation governments.And if not messing with Russia is purely down to their atomic arsenal. Should the same not apply to them in their views of Britain, France and the USA? Or do they have a greater appetite for the risk/rewards of nuclear conflict?
The Russian leadership has historically no qualms about bleeding their country white, as long as it’s only the peasants that are being thrown into the breach. This is easy to ensure with conventional or counter-insurgency wars.
A thermonuclear shambles would of course kill their precious elites, both home and abroad, rather than merely the little people. IMO threats to instigate such are not any more than bluster.
The growing public clamour for a no-fly zone demonstrates that citizens of free countries are a lot more commuted to a muscular “woke” ideology than these dictators expect, and can see through such empty threats even if their leaders cannot yet. As it ever was.
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