aggiehawg said:
benchmark said:
SECTAMU#1 said:
Any thoughts on what Putin will do in retaliation of the demolition of the Kerch Bridge?
Short of WMD and targeting civilians, the question is ... what can he do?
He cannot "retaliate" in any conventional method or location. By this time, Putin has to doubt if his nuclear options really exist anymore that can work as designed. Have they been maintained in the same manner as his "modernized military'?
Try to launch a few ICBMs in silos and they go off on Russia instead? Killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of Russians instead?
Not that he necessarily cares, but excellent point.
Putin has stated that he does not want a world without Russia to exist. He has to know his military has been gutted, and he has to suspect the nukes have been, too. Of course, all that matters is that at least one works, but I am more convinced that Russia has more value on the threat of nukes than they do from their actual nuclear arsenal.