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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
To be honest best case scenario for us and everyone else is Putin realises he's effed up badly, feels the rise of opposition at home and the united front abroad, sues for peace, and withdraws the troops, the west/Ukraine gives him some form of symbolic prize, a vote in the breakaway provinces under UN auspices or something so he can claim victory at home, the Ukraine says it isnt going to join NATO but makes no formal promise, pretty much back to the status quo except Putin and Russia's power is utterly broken, he becomes a wounded and weakened leader who will keep his head down and his mouth shut for his few remaining years in the Kremlin while China also learns that the west can and will pull together and so it backs them down a tad as well for a while.
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What reason is there to believe Putin would put his tail between his legs before firing off all his nukes, hoping some of them still work and seeing what happens? The more he fails and the more he loses, his only power is his nukes, and it seems he has the power to try to send them or settle for going out to pasture. Is there any reason to think he doesn't pick the nuclear option?