The unwritten agreement is only proxies may be fought between nuclear powers, to prevent escalation. Putin hates NATO because those countries are forever off limits as long as the nukes are roughly equal and his conventional forces are significantly weaker. The US can’t get more involved or Putin could drop a tac (a “small” nuke) on Lviv…
The unwritten agreement is only proxies may be fought between nuclear powers, to prevent escalation. Putin hates NATO because those countries are forever off limits as long as the nukes are roughly equal and his conventional forces are significantly weaker. The US can’t get more involved or Putin could drop a tac (a “small” nuke) on Lviv where his troops are nowhere near.Your right this can escalate beyond Ukraine’s borders… Moldova is particularly vulnerable given politics in Transnistria… but NATO countries, no, Putin can’t go that far Russia would get crushed (in a conventional-only war with NATO, if by some magical thinking they agreed to fight but not escalate) and say what you want about him he’s not suicidal so he’s not doing any kind of direct war with nuclear powers.
Unfortunately for Psaki (lol) after you wrote this Jack Biden already reneged on providing only “defensive” weapons to Ukraine since switchblades can be used for whatever…
The unwritten agreement is only proxies may be fought between nuclear powers, to prevent escalation. Putin hates NATO because those countries are forever off limits as long as the nukes are roughly equal and his conventional forces are significantly weaker. The US can’t get more involved or Putin could drop a tac (a “small” nuke) on Lviv where his troops are nowhere near.Your right this can escalate beyond Ukraine’s borders… Moldova is particularly vulnerable given politics in Transnistria… but NATO countries, no, Putin can’t go that far Russia would get crushed (in a conventional-only war with NATO, if by some magical thinking they agreed to fight but not escalate) and say what you want about him he’s not suicidal so he’s not doing any kind of direct war with nuclear powers.
Unfortunately for Psaki (lol) after you wrote this Jack Biden already reneged on providing only “defensive” weapons to Ukraine since switchblades can be used for whatever…