“If they will do this, they will also push the nuclear button.”
But they haven’t.
Putin is a sociopath, who does not empathize with other’s suffering - but he does care about his own goat-smelling butt.
If he were to launch nuclear weapons, he personally would be near the top of the target list - as good as dead. Only a minority of the populations of Moscow or St. Petersburg would be likely to survive. The end of Russia, as a coherent nation.
Those fat cats in the Kremlin have made very comfortable lives for themselves and their families ripping off the system for decades. They have nice homes and dachas on The Black Sea. They're kids go to nice schools abroad. They live good. Fat and happy.
They know damn well this isn't “The Great Patriotic War For The Motherland’’ and all that bs.
They don't want to see that all go up in smoke.
If “Comrade’’ Putin keeps this up he'll soon find himself ''retired for reasons of health''. Putin has a habit of killing off his enemies and rivals in the Kremlin and the government. As you do unto others so will it be done unto you someday.