Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Russia Warns US on Nuclear Threats; China Global Times Hints at US Responsibility for Nord Stream" video.

  1. While I like your take on the war and how it is going for Ukraine relative to Russia, you are wrong about what a country like Russia might consider an existential threat. Let us put how the war is actually going for Russia to one side. Now, assuming a hypothetical looming defeat for Russia, might their reaction be to think they are obliged to accept ( hypothetical remember) 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. You have convinced me that Ukraine has serious problems but also has powerful weapons from foreign friends, strategic space, and potential mobilisation of getting on for a million men. Ukraine is losing men, but gaining territory. So if Zelensky is ruthless enough it is perhaps not out of the question that Ukraine ignoring nuclear threats and with a reequipped army might force Russia back to the 2014 borders.
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