> fear mongering. If there's one thing you should be afraid of it is probably nuclear war. > All sides understand the consequences, so nobody is going to use

> fear mongering. If there's one thing you should be afraid of it is probably nuclear war. > All sides understand the consequences, so nobody is going to use ALL or even part of their nuclear arsenal. Putin and the Kremlin now probably understand that they can't really trust their military readiness, which makes it that much more likely that if their nuclear launch sites are threatened that they will launch everything they have under the assumption that if they don't they will lose it, and that they need to fire everything they have assuming a lot won't reach their targets.