Originally Posted by
charliegolf
Smart move to irradiate it then, eh?
Precisely. Putin wants Ukraine to be a productive part of Russia. For that reason I believe his plan would be to throw a Nuke at another actor, probably in Europe. He will then say to Ukraine
‘You are next if you do not surrender’. He is throughly unaccustomed to being defied, and he has no idea how to deal with it.
Putin is firmly on track to lose this conflict and he cannot countenance that. He will go nuclear.