I don’t think it’s surprising that anti-west/US, Putin proponents are fear mongering about nuclear war. The very people who have literally been wrong about everything since January have suddenly become nuclear deterrence experts and their advice is to give in to nuclear blackmail. Where does that end? Do we simply give up Poland too? After all Putin might use nukes - and if he does it’s our fault remember.
There’s also this constant attempt to defend and baby Putin. Thank god the Russian military isn’t as powerful as Russian propaganda. The idea that Putin is a strongman mastermind is so ingrained here that people are willing to argue Putin should be treated with the utmost respect or else he might get mad and do something bad. The problem is that he already did something bad, and something stupid. How he gets out of this (alive) is anyone’s guess. But I simply don’t buy that he thinks a nuke saves him. All it does is alienate China and get the Russian army obliterated in Ukraine by US forces. At a time when Russian federation states are potentially on the brink of revolt. Seems like it would make more sense for this special operation to transition to those locations. Get people back in line and return home.
