It is my personal surmise wrt putin and nukes that he will not do it

[Stinky The Clown]

I can imagine him using a massive MOAB that can flatten a city just like a tac nuke. I can imagine genocide on a massive scale. I can imagine him enslaving captured Ukrainians in modern day concentration camps. I can imagine all manner of crimes against humanity ordered by Putin. Each one incrementally worse than the one it follows.

But I can't imagine nukes. They are such a terrible weapon, several orders of magnitude more terrible, that the entire world, including many of those sympathetic to him, will recoil in horror. Even with "tiny" tac nukes. In particular, the Chinese, who are now his Daddy, will choose not to even get close to defending him if he uses them.

Putin would be totally isolated and perhaps even unseated.

I think even Putin is aware there are red lines.

These are my personal thoughts. Worth what you said to red them.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Yup. Hope he gets taken down soon.

[mopinko]

2. to close to his own borders. and he's already left a radioactive mess in ukr.

and if he's not worried they will work, he should be.

[Karadeniz]

3. I have always thought that too, but neither you nor I is pathologically liberated from all trace of

decency or morality. It's hard for us to anticipate insane behavior!

[MineralMan]

4. Frankly, I expect that Putin knows that using nukes would be suicidal for him.

I also expect that we know where Putin is at all times. Why do I expect that? Because it's some people's jobs to know exactly where he is.

Drop a nuke and die where you stand. He knows that.

However, he might just be suicidal, which is a dangerous situation, if true.

[Pantagruel]

6. Probably see Putin

taken to a survivable underground shelter right before he would drop a "tactical" nuke. Do not see any of this happening and if I'm wrong , it probably will never come back to bite me as we'll all be vaporized.

[world wide wally]

5. It seems that Putin never even considers the fact that we have them too.

[DenaliDemocrat]

7. You are aware of the Russian "What good is a world

With no Russia?”.

To that end, the Oligarchs may see things differently