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Originally Posted by CroFlames
If the West started shelling the Russian mainland, you don't think he'd launch nukes? I'm certain he would.
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Russian military doctrine has always include the use of tactical nukes in dire situations (emphasis on dire and simple shelling would not even remotely qualify), as have NATO past doctrines past doctrines... including scenarios where Soviet/Russian tanks made it to the Fulda gap.
Strategic nukes would be automatically world ending and I'd hope there is someone still sane enough to put a bullet in Putin's head if he ever reached for that option. Unthinkable in the past, but not sure where things are these days.