Originally Posted by
Less Hair
They cannot escape the retaliation strike and they know it.
This might fire back in unexpected ways: A launch order might be the very moment the -more rational- russian military starts to oppose the government.
What scares me is that Putin could be getting to the point that he doesn't care about retaliation. Hitler like, if he thinks he's going down, taking the rest of the world with him may actually be appealing.