I would disagree with many here who claim that Western missile strikes on Russian territory wouldn’t lead to escalation or even a nuclear strike. It’s important to remember, as one now-deceased Russian opposition figure said, that Putin is "f@cked in the head"—completely unhinged...
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So?
Fuck him
If he use it they should be defeated in Ukraine with NATO help
And if he try all nuke threats should be eliminated with nukes
And I think the most likely answer to that is: he dies in an "accident" and that's the end of it.
Starting a war to recreate Greater Russia is callous and unwise. There are millions like him...
I think he is as sane you can be in that position.
Nukes don't fit into such a strategy.
Collapse happens slowly at first but then very quickly.
More likely that russia will crumble internally before there is a military conclusion.
He will cling to life.
Thus I don't fear a nuclear attack.
And he started the invasion, and all the other shit he has done, because he was certain to get away clean with it.
This guy values his life above everything else. Probably thinks he's immortal by now - Caesar Madness.
A psycho shouldn't have anything to say. Russia is dying, 1k citizens a day on the frontlines and many more in the country. Economy dying. Each day it will get worse.
Support Ukraine and time will do its job.
Himself.
His legacy.
Imperial russia.
Nuclear armageddon erases russia from existence.
He will fire only when fired upon.
Unless its one nuke we talking. He may try that on ukraine.
Entertaining a psychotic narrative in a psychosis just deepens it.
If a threat of any kind can change your behavior then you don’t stand for any principles. You’d be a coward.
Personally, I don't care either way.
I just don't think nuclear war is unavoidable in the long run anyhow.
I don't care much about the "when". Sure, maybe it could be after my death? But if I assume a normal life-expectancy, I strongly doubt that.
He thinks a democracy is just a concept.
And according to ”Russian mir”: there will only be peace once the world is Russian.
He’s less crazy than many think, he just thinks the West should stop existing.
Starting with russia and NK, of course.
Now, ask Ukraine not to use while Russia almost daily kill civilians with those kind of missiles, is really low.
putin loves his life way too much to launch nukes!
He's insane and greedy, not stupid and suicidal.
You are absolutely right that appeasement is not the answer.
There will be no negotiation until Ukrainian troops liberate all Ukrainian territory by force.
Putin's nuclear threats are meaningless.
I hope that there will be resistance in his innermost circle, who certainly have no great desire to go down for their leader.
Putin is dishonest, not deluded. He is a fool, not mad.
He also is slow to take action, as he is well aware that his knee-jerk reactions are counterproductive.
If he uses nukes, it would be on a limited basis to scare the West, he has no desire to die in a nuclear holocaust.
And Dudayev wasn't russian so it's got to be Nemtsov
The mad man will do whatever he wants and he needs to be stopped!