re: #514 steve_davis

that would be, for Putin, the kiss of death. the horrors presented by a nuclear bomb over a besieged city would force the U.S. to go tit-for-tat, and that’s understood by both militaries. Nuking a capital city would result in us nuking Moscow in return. We would have to. Absolutely no way you could let Russia get away with not only killing several million civilians but also putting a radioactive crater in a place where Western and Northern Europe will be dealing with the fallout for generations.

Putin doesn’t have to nuke Kyiv, and he won’t. He’s going to level it with cluster munitions, which they are already unleashing on Kharkiv.

#Ukraine 🇺🇦: CCTV footage from the eastern edge of #Kharkiv shows how residential areas are being targeted by the Russian invasion force. pic.twitter.com/k1i8sdAC5h

— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) February 28, 2022