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Originally Posted by Fuzzy14
100%. Nukes are only really a deterrent to invasion, not to interference from foreign powers in an extraterritorial conflict. Using them in that context would only serve to attract the single thing they are meant to deter: military action within your own borders.
This threat of Russian nukes has been a red herring this entire time, and I don't think the west is overly concerned about them. What is keeping the west out of Ukraine is not Russian nukes, it is the domestic political nightmare, which would undoubtedly follow direct interference.
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I think the threat of nuclear war is real. It won't be a volley of massive strikes between two countries like the common scenario portrayed though. it will be a more gradual escalation when some country starts to use low-yield tactical nukes to take out military staging areas and other targets. The line is constantly getting pushed and there has already been talk in both the West and Russia about tactical nukes not being a red line that triggers full scale intercontinental nuclear war.