Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
He's letting others keep that rhetoric going.
To put this disturbing topic into an aviation context: I wonder if they have (without making a lot of noise about it) already fitted one of the hypersonic missiles with a nuclear warhead, and could thus from their own airspace over their own territory launch one with high confidence that it would not be intercepted. Not sure what target would be worth that risk or escalation, since Russia is still banging on about "special military operation" and not a declared war. My read (which is hardly expert) is that they'd not use a tactical nuke unless they were in a declared war.
Can we assume a tactical nuke strike would just be a scorched earth policy by Putin? Or can something be gained from using one?