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Originally Posted by indes
I'm starting to lean in the opposite direction. I think he would have been less likely to use nukes had he taken Ukraine in a relatively quick fashion.
The longer this goes on, the more damage is done to Russia and their image of a strong nation. By all accounts this has been an embarrassment for Russia and I could see Putin getting desperate.
What does NATO have to fear from Russia besides their nukes at this point? Absolutely nothing, and if they're not actually willing to use them then no one has anything to fear from Russia. I just don't think that sits well with them as a country.
Hopefully I'm wrong but desperate times.
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I'm with you on this one, for Putin losing the war means a very good chance of hanging from a lamp post outside the Kremlin with his wife and kids, he has painted himself into a corner that there is no way out of.
The war no matter how it ends has cost Russia all it's standing as a military power and that's the only standing that Russia had, he will be lucky if Chechnya and Syria dont blow up and slip away from Russian influence after this along with the various 'Stans in the east, Russia is broke so it cant buy influence, its army is being ground to hamburger and wont be replaced for decades so he no longer has military power he can flex.
Putin has lost everything that he has slowly built up over the decades, all he has left to throw into the pot are chemical biological or tactical nuke.