Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "The Cold War" channel.

The gist of this video is Russia is not s country of consequence and doesn't have to be taken seriously. If they are going to be faced with a choice of going nuclear or being forced to withdraw from all Ukraine including Crimea (assuming the Kremlin considers maintaining their status as a great power to be paramount), then why wouldn't they detonate theatre thermonuclear weapon' on the battlefield? Would there be a devasting direct conventional retaliatory strike by the West (US) on a Russia that had already gone nuclear on Ukraine?; no there wouldn't, whatever they might say they danger of Russia using nukes on a US air fors strike would be too great. Russia does not need to worry about losing to Ukraine, at the moment, which is the only reason why it is currently unlikely they would do something desperate. And by the way, if nukes cannot recue a conventional situation why NATO doctrine was and is to use nuclear weapons to stop a Russian conventional attack succeeding? Russians seeing they were losing could do feel they had to so it, and surely Russians would cooperate to do it if they needed to to maintain Russia's status. In other words it might not help them win, but even in defeat they would be a country that had to be taken seriously.
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