Which "Professionals"? Most "military analysts" are literally just former soldiers trading on fake prestige. So which professionals are you getting your ideolog

Which "Professionals"? Most "military analysts" are literally just former soldiers trading on fake prestige. So which professionals are you getting your ideology from? Were they the same professionals who insisted that US intel was wrong and there's no way the 300k soldiers amassing on Ukraine's border were part of an invasion literally days before they invaded? >Russian doctrine now includes the use of nuclear weapons (look up 'escalate to de-escalate'), and Russia has threatened their use. Russian doctrine has always included first strike possibility, and has threatened nuclear war constantly since they ran out of legitimate threats. But these have all been public threats, not actual threats. The intention is to get a country's citizens to reduce their support for Ukraine, not genuinely warn a country's leaders of possible escalation risk. The day that Russia ACTUALLY goes "no seriously, we will nuke if you do that", average citizens will not hear it. Diplomacy is not conducted through CNN.