Not at all. The Russians are nowhere near the capability to push their will like they claim. Anyone believing otherwise is allowing themselves to be swayed by Russian propaganda. This noise coming for Lavrov is for Russian internal consumption.
If the Russians were to deploy a tactical nuclear weapon with a yield slightly less than that of a fart after a dinner of Boston Baked Beans, NATO / the U.S. would respond swiftly, and with decisive effect.
Within years, NATO would be welcoming segments of formerly Russian territory into its arms.
Regards,
They can’t use tactical nukes. It would be World War III if they did.
A “tactical nuke” is a misleading diminutive... In reality it has about the same explosive power as the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
If one of these bombs are used, the fallout would also contaminate Russia itself and large parts of Europe. Thus triggering NATO response.
Their military stuff doesn’t work.
11 months has shown that the more complex the weapon, the less likely it us that it works
“The Russians are very capable of backing up that threat. They have developed a range of very low yield battlefield tactical nukes and a doctrine on how to use them to win wars while keeping under the threshold for a strategic nuclear response.”
That’s insanity. IF the Russians are considering tactical nuclear weapons they are loosing the war, and want to destroy the entire biosphere on their way out. There is no controlled tactical nuclear weapon release, it’s a guess that your opponent will not quickly acquire and deploy it’s own nukes.
This war is stupid. We have a corrupt Ukrainian government, involved in money laundering for Democrats, some Republicans, with CIA biological labs on one side. On the other, we have a bunch of old people living in an era that no longer exists, which are even more corrupt.
The only people I support in this entire event are the poor farmers and working people who are caught in between. Escalating this conflict is even more stupid and dangerous.
Russians, Ukrainians, and the world needs peace. Frankly, it’s simple. Russia withdraws it’s people from Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine honors non-aggression with Russia by divesting itself of US based ‘secret’ projects. There should be ‘inspections’ allowed by Ukraine to prove no biological labs, nuclear missiles from the west, or offensive capability from the west.
Someone call Trump and let him get it solved.
“The Russians are very capable of backing up that threat.”
So why don’t they do it rather than suffer humiliating loses om the battlefield?
The answer is simple - they can’t really back it up. Oh, they have nukes galore, but they can’t really use them.
.........”The Russians are very capable of backing up that threat”........
There’s now some threads on twitter of Russian photos etc. from their perspective. Also showing their military activity - and equipment both in, on the way and in the works for Ukraine.
I don’t think Russia has any concerns about their capability - even a little.
Once a nuke is used, depict its yield, NATO will get involved. WWIII starts at that point.