Quote:Russia has to negotiate, and it will be from a weaker position whether or not they keep fighting because of their terrific losses and paltry gains.
The alternative, of course, is recourse to WMDs; or even if the Russians can manage one final push, they'll confront a Ukrainian insurgency that Russia neither wants nor can afford.
Putin has said, via one of his mouthpieces, that they would only use nuclear weapons to counter an existential threat to Russia.
He’s either missing or ignoring the fact that the use of even a single nuke in Europe would itself spell the end of Russia. He’s already been warned that even an accidental incursion in any NATO country would trigger Article 5. Russia can’t even take Ukraine - how long would it stand against NATO?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
