Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Zakaria: ‘We are witnessing the turning point’ in the Ukraine war" video.

Re 4:50 which is a scenario of a American conventional attack on Russian forces in Ukraine in retaliation for Putin's battlefield thermonuclear weapon use, Russia would have already crossed the Rubicon of theatre thermonuclear weapons in anger when conventionally bested. We are being led to believe that Putin using more tac nukes on the Americans (while the US is directly attacking the Russian army and killing tens of thousands of its soldiers) would be out of the question for him. Well why wouldn't he?
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@kristycampbell5986 It will not happen . because Putin is about to more than double his force, and because it is part of Russia now he can use conscripts in the occupied territory and the parts of Donbass and Kherson that have never been occupied, maybe triple it, That was the real reason behind the annexing. Let us put how the war is actually going for Russia to one side. Now, assuming a hypothetical looming defeat for Russia, what might their reaction be; to think they are obliged to accept that they are a third rate country?; because that is what being defeated without daring to clearly threaten to use and then if ignored actually use some of the smallest types in their enormously expensive collection of various nuclear weapons against the conventionally armed medium sized country of Ukraine would amount to for Russia. To be clear Russia in this scenario would not be able to get Ukraine to surrender the land currently unoccupied by Russia; no, the most that would happen I think is Ukraine has to be satisfied with it being a somewhat smaller county.
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