October 8, 2022
Will Putin use his nukes or not?
By George Walsh
The mainstream media's constant caterwauling over Putin's threat to go nuclear in Ukraine has spiked recently. Most of this is just another echo chamber. Seeing our atomic anxiety, Putin and company threaten nuclear war to undermine morale.
And yet the nukes exist. Because they exist; they are an option; and if you tilt your head left and squint real hard, Russia's constant threats look like thunder and lightning announcing a coming storm. Perhaps it's time to talk about how nukes fit into the current war.
The argument for Putin going nuclear is best summed up by Dan Goure's recent article on the National Interest website. Goure's argument boils down to the nuclear weapons being so icky and gross that the U.S. and NATO must never respond to any nuclear attack "in kind." Thus, Russia wins the moment the war goes nuclear.
Danny Boy gets a little right in that the U.S. will probably not respond "in kind" to the use of nuclear weapons but gets the end result wrong. The most probable result of any first use of nuclear weapons is the collapse of the Russian Army and Vlad Putin being removed from power.
This is not Russia's war; it is Putin's war. Instead of rallying around the flag, the Russian people are running away from Putin and his war. Putin's political opponents, of which there are many, are sniffing blood in the water but lack a way to rally the public behind them.
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