[Tallguy]

I think it’s time to consider what Putin might do if things begin to collapse for him. Perhaps a tactical nuke at a target within Ukraine? Or dragging up the heavy field guns and a mountain of artillery shells to turn Kiev into rubble? Or maybe start using fuel air explosives — the bang of a low-yield nuke without the nasty fallout (political or radioactive).

[steve86]

“Or maybe start using fuel air explosives — the bang of a low-yield nuke without the nasty fallout”

FOAB has already been used, multiple times.

[fuzzylogic]

That’s my fear - we’re backing him into a corner where the only options become radical and if he believes he’ll fail, being his own downfall, he might do the unthinkable.

[knarf]

Or maybe it's a three ring circus . . . Russia, Ukraine and the US, dancing Kabuki to bide time and continue laundering money.

Two plus months with light equipment and a thou in casualties does not make an invasion imo.

Money and materiel have already been delivered.