Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "UKRAINE | Russia's Nuclear Option?" video.

  1. Bluffing or not is irrelevant, and the reason for that is because the west can't afford to back down on this with what Russia is doing, if the west backed down, Putin will likely get more hostile in Ukraine and with other countries, surely the west has learned its lesson over the last decade that dictators only understand one thing and that's strength, the last thing the west needs is to show Putin weakness because he will take advantage of that. So is a nuclear strike possible? Well anything is possible but for Putin to go that route would be very risky for him because he might have lost the plot but I suspect a lot in his inner circle and the Russian people have not, in other words, if Putin pushes his luck on the nuclear threat, it's his life that could be at far higher risk than anyone else. Personally, I think it's just a bluff, everything Putin is doing is bluffing his way through with the aim of trying to get the EU countries to back down and not support Ukraine and to create disunity in the EU and the west, the idea being is that he wants to divide the west to try and take advantage of us. The truth is, the west can't back down because if they do, Russia won't stop with just Ukraine, also it sends a powerful message around the world that if pushed enough, the west has limits, think of the message that would send to China on Taiwan, in other words, the west backing down could escalate the war globally and we've seen from history, you can't appease these clowns, you have to put your foot down and make their choice as painful for the economy and people as possible and that is what the west is doing with sanctions, isolating Russia and helping Ukraine to defend it's self. Also, Russia should consider it's self lucky, how easy it could be seen with them playing all these games with the energy market in Europe, how easy that could be seen as a declaration of war against those countries, a lot of which are NATO and EU countries, Putin wanted to play this game, now his going to suffer the consequence of it and if he keeps pushing on these threats, it's going to mean him digging his own grave.
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