Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Ukraine War Updates Part 3: What’s Next for Russia || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Because nuclear weapons are a last resort, not a first one. No nation wants to use those things for many very obvious reasons so it's desirable to have a great many other layers of defense before one gets to that; territory being just one. Using that logic, you could also ask why they need any other forms of military capabilities at all. They have nuclear weapons so what do they need a navy for? Or an army or anything else? Because they don't want the enemies to be at the gates of Moscow and then have no other recourse but to use their nuclear weapons.
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  2.  @veronicamaine3813  Peter doesn't miss this. I've heard him address it numerous times. And you are also correct. That's the thing.... It is possible for two things to be true at the same time.
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  3. All of this may be aspirational for Russia but it doesn't have anything close to the capability to actually pull it off. A much more likely outcome IMO; and frankly, a more desirable one, is for the Russian state as it's currently structured, to collapse and disintegrate. That would indeed result in innumerable regional ethnic conflicts but it would not threaten European and even world peace. Plus, it may actually provide the Russian people with a chance to build a normal, peaceful, functional society for once in their existence.
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