Originally Posted by
etudiant
That ship has sailed, after Qaddafi no ruler in his right mind would ever give up their nuclear capability.
Putin is just showing all of us the bleak truth that behind the nuclear shield, the direst activities may go on.
Separately, we should be very slow to embrace the concept of 'a people's war' in Ukraine. The Russian troops are poorly led at best (
afaik there is no discernible commander for the operation other than Putin, below him the command structure is fragmented), as well as inadequately trained and badly briefed. Such soldiers, thrown into a fight where every house can conceal a lethal threat will become very trigger happy. Add to this a few instances of seeing squad members die in civilian attacks and atrocities quickly become the norm. Ukraine will suffer a Thirty Years War type disaster as this war drags on.
Who is to say his nuclear weaponary is any better, they have said some of his high tech weapons used so far had a failure rate of 65% heck the west wouldn’t need to retaliate at that rate, they would nuke themselves.