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Russia REALLY wants the US population to crap themselves in terror of Russia and see popular opinion swing away from western support of Ukraine.
In that case, Putin and minions should have kept the nuclear question completely off of the table until he truly needed it. Such as now.
But he and his minions kept talking about it for 8 months so now it is just background noise. He blew "his wad" too early.
All of our military and intelligence have been watching the disintegration of the vaunted Russian military and are completely reassessing their actual nuclear capabilities. Primarily downwards would be my guess. Telling new conscripts to have their mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends to buy sanitary products for wound care in a First Aid kit tends to reinforce the impression that the Russian military is largely trash and not well-prepared nor supplied.
It ain't the 80s anymore. Obama may have actually had that partially correct in the debate with Romney.