The risk of nukes is basically zero.
Countries tend to want to keep being countries. Using nuclear warheads in Ukraine prompts an unsurvivable response from the rest of the world. As does using nukes against any NATO member.
Countries tend to want to keep being countries. Using nuclear warheads in Ukraine prompts an unsurvivable response from the rest of the world. As does using nukes against any NATO member.
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a. Exhaust western support for Ukraine.
b. Reach a point where they can claim success to the Russian people.
Everything else is just in service to that delay, so saber rattling, escalating use of arms, asymmetric attacks to distract etc.