Originally Posted by
Beamr
Still, point being that there are agreements that Russia needs to concider, how vague they seem. Unless they all go full Tonto of course in which case the aforementioned SPF is required all around.
The point I was making was
1) He could use Sweden or Finland to use a Nuke with little real chance of anything coming back at him.
2) Once he has used a Nuke the rules are very different
3) He could use the 'real' threat of Nukes then to pressure the break up of NATO
seems logical to me