Originally Posted by
SHVC
Also been reports there are protest against his invasion. So what support does he have. Now he has made the threat of nuclear attack if he launches one of those it will be on WW3.
That's all it is. A
threat. No leader is going to launch a nuclear weapon, of any description, these days because they know full well that doing so is to invite a nuclear attack on
their own country.
Putin might be egotistical and may have overestimated the ease with which this little skirmish would play out, but he is
not stupid. He knows full well the global condemnation that would befall Russia should he launch such an attack, and it wouldn't just be words this time, but likely complete isolation of Russia as a country. But on the opposite side of the coin, were the
Ukraine to launch one (if they
had any...), I think they
would be forgiven for doing so, given they didn't start this kerfuffle.