Just when it seems impossible for Putin to become more amoral in his actions, his troops start shooting directly into zaphorista nuclear power plant. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Putin is a global threat, to his own army, to the Ukranian, and to everyone in the northern hemisphere. A deliberate attempt to destroy a NPP that would make half of europe and Russia, Ukraine, and everything downwind of that, which include the Former CIS states, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, Canada USA, etc... this is an imminent global threat. It is time to do the no fly zone and start employing counter force in Ukraine to stop this insanity. The fact that Putin is now a Nixonian type "madman" wild card does not alter the potential outcome.
Here is the hard geopolitical truth to the situation.
Assuming Putin won't drop a bucket 'o sunshine on a remote oblast of Ukraine or on downtown Kiev is not a zero probability. Assume he does, what is the response? We have a world that is so concerned with his state of mind that we sit around watching him commit murder in plain sight, and effectively we are on a road to a bad day. As this proceeds there is no downside to him dropping one nuke, and then the response being a resounding whimper, At that point, Putin has removed the testicles of the whole world, and there is no stopping his warning shot of the same on Helsinki, Copenhagen etc, as they know the response is a whimper. The risks of doing nothing now appear to outweigh the risks of a UN intervention in force in Ukraine to stop his insanity.
